The Data Science Lab 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 ...

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 ...

Many scientific problems entail labeling data items with one of a given, finite set of classes based on features of the data items. For example, oncologists classify tumors as different known cancer ...