The MAA club and Pi Mu Epsilon would like to invite you to attend a talk given by Dr. Kim Roth from Juniata College. Title and abstract below!
When: October 31 at 11am
Where: Eberly 360
Title: Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Random Forests and
Predicting Fracking
Abstract
When you have thousands of variables that you can select from to
describe and predict whether active fracking is occurring, how do you
choose? Random forests are a learning method that uses
an ensemble of decision trees to build a predictive model.
We’ll discuss how to make a random forest and how we
used one to tell what measures from the microbiome and the sample site
best predicted active fracking status.