Lecture 20 – Decision Trees

Presented by Anthony D. Joseph

Content by Josh Hug

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20.1
Decision tree basics. Decision trees in scikit-learn.
20.1
20.2
Overfitting and decision trees.
20.2
20.3
Decision tree generation. Finding the best split. Entropy and weighted entropy.
20.3
20.4
Restricting decision tree complexity. Preventing growth and pruning. Random forests and bagging.
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20.5
Regression trees. Summary of decision trees, classification, and regression.
20.5