As a result of changes in the spring 2024 meeting schedule for the NSF Unidata Users Committee, we are able to extend the submission deadline for this year's Community Equipment Awards solicitation until March 29, 2024. All other aspects of the 2024 program remain as described in the original announcement.
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K Nearest Neighbors (KNN) is a supervised machine learning method that 'memorizes' (stores) an entire dataset, then relies on the concepts of proximity and similarity to make predictions about new data. The basic idea is that if a new data point is in some sense 'close' to existing data points, its value is likely to be similar to the values of its neighbors. In the Earth Systems Sciences, such techniques can be useful for small- to moderate-scale classification and regression problems.
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