Drought is a major natural hazard which can cause severe consequences on agricultural production, the environment, the economy and social stability. Consequently, increasing attention has been paid to drought monitoring methods that can assist governments in implementing preparedness plans and mitigation measures to reduce the economic, environmental, and social impacts of drought. The...
Despite the success of machine learning in the past several years, there has been an ongoing debate regarding the superiority of machine learning algorithms over simpler methods, particularly when working with structured, tabular data. To highlight this issue, we outline a concrete example by revisiting a case study on predictive monitoring in an educational context. In their work, the authors...