Tag: Trees

Old trees in the city often stand along the street, with people interact with them without any close contact. In many cases, people simply breathe in the oxygen that trees produce and enjoy the shade that the leafy canopies provide. However, if you happened to be walking through some of the old dist...

You’re a Data Scientist in training. You’ve come a long way from writing your first line of Python or R code. You know your way around Scikit-Learn like the back of your hand. You spend more time on Kaggle than Facebook now. You’re no stranger to building awesome random forests and...

Boosted Regression Trees (from now on BRTs) is a kind of regression methodology based on Machine Learning. Unlike conventional regression methods (GLMs, GAMs), BRTs combine numerous basic decision trees to enhance the predictive performance. BRTs can handle complex relationships and interaction...

A phylogenetic tree is a branching diagram that shows the evolutionary relationships among species or groups of organisms. It is often depicted as a diagram with branches, nodes, and tips/terminal nodes. The branches represent the lineages or evolutionary paths of species, while the nodes indicate t...

About 2500 years ago, a young royal prince, Siddhartha Gautama, embarked on a profound spiritual journey. Having lived his early years, never having witnessed problems of old age, sickness, poverty, or death, he renounced his opulent lifestyle and began his search for truth. Following the traditi...

The ISFR reports present lots of stats, but in this thread, I focus on the headline statistic: trends in India’s total forest cover over time. So, let’s go… here, in one graph, is a 35-year summary of the official line on India’s forest cover: from 1999, it has been nonst...

Because our neighboring nations have so much in common culturally, you can sometimes almost forget that you’ve traveled to another country when visiting Canada from the United States. But after spending much of the last year fighting the efforts of the Trump administration to undermine our env...