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During the 2014 - 2016 North Pacific marine heatwave, unprecedented sightings of juvenile white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) emerged in Central California. These records contradicted the species established life history, where juveniles less than 2.5 meters in total body length (TBL) remained in warmer waters in the Southern California Current. This ...
This talk will describe the dramatic creation of the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19) and the broad range of efforts, both inside and outside of the Semantic Scholar project, to garner insights into COVID-19 and its treatment based on this growing corpus of research papers.Speaker: Oren Etzioni, Allen Institute for ...
My research program is broadly focused on applied aquatic ecology with an emphasis on fishes. In general, my work aims to fill critical data gaps needed by fisheries and water resource managers to implement effective restoration and conservation measures for imperiled species and ecosystems. In particular, my work has focused ...
The Surprising Usefulness of the Single Decision TreeWhen data scientists think about decision trees it is usually in the context of ensembles of hundreds or thousands trees such as in the gradient boosting machine or random forests. In all the excitement about these powerful but complex learning machines most data analysts have forgotten about their extraordinary ancestor, ...
