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Re:Introduction to Decision Tree Learning by jrumbut on Thursday April 26, 2018 @06:56PM (#16936727)
Hey, great explanation of decision trees. I might recommend, instead of going for a bigger dataset, maybe following it up by adding bagging or boosting.

Fairly often people writing tutorials jump straight to Random Forest or Gradient Boosting, and those are great to use but maybe too big a conceptual leap to understand straight away if your theoretical background is weak.

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Re:Introduction to Decision Tree Learning by ishansharma on Friday April 27, 2018 @08:15AM (#16940182)
Thank you. I will consider doing that. I will have to create or find a relevant dataset that's small enough for those concepts but I guess that'll help rather than jumping straight to random forest or gradient boosting.
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