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CourseMachine Learning: Random Forests & Decision Trees
Learn how to build decision trees and then build those trees into random forests.
Skill level
BeginnerTime to complete
Average based on combined completion rates — individual pacing in lessons, projects, and quizzes may vary3 hoursCertificate of completion
Included with paid plansPrerequisites
None
About this course
Continue your Machine Learning journey with Machine Learning: Random Forests and Decision Trees. Find patterns in data with decision trees, learn about the weaknesses of those trees, and how they can be improved with random forests.
Skills you'll gain
Prepare data for Decision Tree and Random Forest Classifiers
Implement and assess decision trees and random forests
Explain the limitations of decision trees
Syllabus
Decision Trees
In this course, you will learn how to build and use decision trees and random forests - two powerful supervised machine learning models.
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