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"Because Purim in 2020 caused hundreds of Orthodox Jews to become ill or hospitalized with COVID-19 in the earliest stages of the pandemic, we realized that these patients -- who were convalescing when others were just coming in contact with SARS-CoV-2 for the first time -- were an important population to study to better understand why and how the virus spreads through a culturally bonded community," says study co-senior author Avi Rosenberg, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of pathology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. "We felt with that insight, health care practitioners...

An intuitive visual guide to a powerful ML algorithm applied to predict voting patterns among the US States. Have you ever wondered why certain states tend to vote Republican while others vote Democrat? Is there a way to predict which way a state will vote in any given year? Let’s say we want to predict whether a state is “red” or “blue” based on a few variables that we observe about it. To do this, we’ll use Decision Trees. Red and Blue Map, 2016; Image from Wikipedia Decision trees are both a classification and regression supervised learning model used to pre...