A topic that's often very confusing for beginners when using neural networks is data normalization and encoding. Because neural networks work internally with numeric data, binary data (such as sex, ...

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research presents a full-code, step-by-step tutorial on a "very tricky" machine learning technique. Data clustering is the process of grouping data items together so ...

I've written about numerical calculations before, but perhaps they weren't too inspiring. What are numerical calculations? Here is my own definition. Numerical Calculations (numerical methods, ...

The recently developed multiscale kernel of R. Opfer [Adv. Comput. Math., 25 (2006), pp. 357- 380] is applied to approximate numerical derivatives. The proposed method is truly mesh-free and can ...

Microsoft Excel is spreadsheet data management software used by many small businesses for day-to-day operational tasks. Excel's convenient cell-based structure lets you input your business' inventory, ...

Have you ever spent countless hours wrestling with Excel formulas, trying to convert “one thousand two hundred” into “1,200” or vice versa? For years, this task has frustrated professionals across ...