The U.S. has a deficit problem. Both political parties agree that the debt and the deficit must be addressed, but are at odds about how to do so. Worse still, there are members of both parties who make finding solutions difficult because of entrenched ideology. As we approach the second year of...

In many classification tasks training data have missing feature valuesthat can be acquired at a cost. For building accurate predictive models,acquiring all missing values is often prohibitively expensive orunnecessary, while acquiring a random subset of feature values may notbe most effective....