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An intuitive explanation of the decision tree algorithm

How it works under the hood

Skyler Dale
Towards Data Science
6 min readNov 9, 2020

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Decision trees are one of the most important concepts in modern machine learning. Not only are they an effective approach for classification and regression problems, but they are also the building block for more sophisticated algorithms like random forests and gradient boosting.

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