Binary Classification Using a scikit Decision Tree Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research says decision trees are useful for relatively small datasets and when the trained model must be easily ...

Decision trees are useful for relatively small datasets that have a relatively simple underlying structure, and when the trained model must be easily interpretable, explains Dr. James McCaffrey of ...

Decision trees are a simple but powerful prediction method. Figure 1: A classification decision tree is built by partitioning the predictor variable to reduce class mixing at each split. Figure 2: ...