Decision Trees

Did you know that decision trees help computers ask smart “yes” or “no” questions to make predictions—just like a game of 20 Questions? Explore how they use entropy and information to guide those choices. This text is part of the Decision-Making Using Machine Learning Basics pathway.

Topics

data structures
computational thinking
decision tree classification
entropy in machine learning
information gain
pruning
sklearn
information theory
Python
learning algorithms
overfitting
top-down tree classifier
Gini index
decision tree accuracy