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Re:Top ten algorithms in data mining (2007) [pdf] by textminer on Tuesday December 18, 2012 @01:52PM (#4938882)
You will find no understanding in the grown trees-- by definition, they're each seeing a different angle of the data, and each node a different subset of available features.

You can, however, calculate importance scores for the features used. Brennan's original paper gives a good algorithm for doing this (in short: for each tree, permuting the data along some feature for an out of bag sample and seeing how much worse it does.)

Re:Top ten algorithms in data mining (2007) [pdf] by textminer on Tuesday December 18, 2012 @02:03PM (#4938964)
(Pardon me/blame autocorrect: Breiman.)