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Building and Extending Your Decision Tree: A Hands-On Guide

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Last Updated on August 6, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Shenggang Li Originally published on Towards AI. Unlocking the Secrets of Decision Trees: From Basic Concepts to Advanced Optimization Techniques and Practical CodingPhoto by Natalie Thornley on Unsplash This post explores decision trees and guides how to build one from scratch.

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Decision Trees Unveiled: From ID3 to CART to Random Forests to XGBoost

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Last Updated on October 5, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Joseph Robinson, Ph.D. This is the essence of a decision tree—one of today’s most intuitive and powerful machine learning algorithms. A decision tree is a step-by-step guide that asks questions about the data and splits it into increasingly homogeneous groups.

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Decision Trees Explained: How They Work and When to Use Them

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Last Updated on October 5, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Harsh Chourasia Originally published on Towards AI. The Ultimate Guide to Making Smarter Data Decisions This member-only story is on us. Photo by Nicole Wolf on Unsplash Today we will talk about Decision Trees, a powerful tool in machine learning and data science.

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Why scikit-learn isn’t the Best for Visualizing Decision Trees: Meet dtreeviz

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Last Updated on September 2, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Souradip Pal Originally published on Towards AI. Fall in Love with Decision Trees with dtreeviz’s Visualization This member-only story is on us. Yes, decision trees are straightforward, but there’s a catch. Upgrade to access all of Medium.

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10 No-Nonsense Machine Learning Tips for Beginners (Using Real-World Datasets)

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Last Updated on December 19, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Mukundan Sankar Originally published on Towards AI. You're not ready for neural networks if you cant explain Linear Regression or Decision Trees. Stop Overthinking and Start Building Models with Real-World Datasets This member-only story is on us.

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10 No-Nonsense Machine Learning Tips for Beginners (Using Real-World Datasets)

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Last Updated on December 18, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Mukundan Sankar Originally published on Towards AI. You're not ready for neural networks if you cant explain Linear Regression or Decision Trees. Stop Overthinking and Start Building Models with Real-World Datasets This member-only story is on us.

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I Built an Interactive Decision Tree Plotter — This Is What I Learned

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Last Updated on June 22, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Frederik Holtel Originally published on Towards AI. 👇🏽 Interactive decision tree plotter. The result is a decision tree. Doesn’t look like a tree to you? Maybe this one is more familiar: A decision tree in its extensive form.