AI Anyone Can Understand: Part 12 — Decision Trees

Author(s): Andrew Austin

Originally published on Towards AI.

Demystifying Decision Trees in Artificial Intelligence

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Imagine you’re playing a game of “20 Questions” with your friend. Your friend thinks of an object, and you have to guess what it is by asking yes-or-no questions. You ask questions like “Is it alive?”, “Does it have legs?”, or “Is it a fruit?”. Based on the answers, you narrow down your options until you can guess the object.

That’s how Decision Trees work! They are like a game of 20 Questions, where the algorithm asks questions about the data and makes decisions based on the answers.

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