Machine Learning & Data Mining | CSE 450

04 Prepare : Reading

Before coming to class this week, please study the material from the following sections in your textbook (Machine Learning, Marsland):

• 12.1 Using Decision Trees

• 12.2 Constructing Decision Trees

• 12.3 CART

• 12.4 Classification Example

Please pay particular attention to the ID3 algorithm, as you will be implementing it this week.

Then check out this awesome visual walk-through of the way that decision trees work.