Decision trees
In this section, we will be using decision trees and student performance data to predict whether a child will do well in school. We will use the previous techniques with some scikit-learn code. Before starting with the prediction, let's just learn a bit about what decision trees are.
Decision trees are one of the simplest techniques for classification. They can be compared with a game of 20 questions, where each node in the tree is either a leaf node or a question node. Consider the case of Titanic survivability, which was built from a dataset that includes data on the survival outcome of each passenger of the Titanic.
Consider our first node as a question: Is the passenger a male? If not, then the passenger most likely survived. ...
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