The Data Journey by Ivo Bernardo

The Data Journey by Ivo Bernardo

Classification Decision Trees, Easily Explained

Decision Trees are one of the building blocks for more advanced machine learning models. When it comes to classification problems, how exactly are they built?

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Ivo Bernardo
Aug 22, 2023
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No matter how experienced you are in Data Science, you’ve probably heard about Decision Trees. Loved by many, this simple explainable algorithm is the building block for many algorithms that have won a ton of machine learning competitions and steered projects towards success.

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