https://nyghtowl.com/tags/random-forest/ Recent content in Random Forest on Nyghtowl Hugo en-us <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CC BY-NC-SA 4.0</a> Tue, 17 Feb 2015 09:49:19 +0000 https://nyghtowl.com/posts/2015/02/targeting-email-with-random-forest-at-change-org/ Tue, 17 Feb 2015 09:49:19 +0000 https://nyghtowl.com/posts/2015/02/targeting-email-with-random-forest-at-change-org/ <p>Last fall, a couple of my colleagues (Kristiane Skiolmen, Scott Lau) and I presented Change’s machine learning email optimization approach as a lecture in <a href="http://hci.stanford.edu/courses/cs547/speaker.php?date=2014-10-10">Stanford’s Human Computer Interaction Semina</a>r for CS grad students.</p> <p>The video gives an overview of how Change.org uses email to drive petition engagement from the business and social perspective to the specific technical optimization we made. It starts with an overview of Change and examples of petitions that have literally improved and saved lives.</p>