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03 - Decision Trees and Random Forest: Classification and Regression

Discover decision trees (interpretable, easy to understand) and random forests (ensemble of trees for better results). Learn how entropy works, how to build trees, overfitting issues, pruning, feature importance, and when to use them vs linear regression.

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Discover decision trees (interpretable, easy to understand) and random forests (ensemble of trees for better results). Learn how entropy works, how to build trees, overfitting issues, pruning, feature importance, and when to use them vs linear regression.

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