Decision Trees
Learn about decision trees and how they're used.
We'll cover the following...
Chapter Goals:
- Learn about decision trees and how they are constructed
- Learn how decision trees are used for classification and regression
A. Making decisions
Each model we've looked at so far is based on creating an optimal linear combination of dataset features for either regression or classification. However, another popular model in data science for both classification and regression is the decision tree. It is a binary tree where each node of the tree decides on a particular feature of the dataset, and we descend to the node's left or right child depending on the feature's value. ...