Arshiya Ansari, Chirag Kulkarni, Ronak Rijhwani, Surbhi Singh

Introduction

Before we dive into the machine learning applications of decision trees, I want to demonstrate that the concept of a decision tree is not foreign to you. In fact, you probably mentally construct a number of decision trees every day of your life. Let’s consider an example. You’re on a first date and trying to gauge whether or not you should ask her on a second date to your favorite restaurant the following weekend. Well, it probably depends on whether or not your date enjoyed the first date. If the answer is…