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Date Published
Author
Tague Griffith
Word count
1854
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

The article explores the use of decision trees in machine learning for classification and regression problems. It discusses how decision trees model a sequence of rules as a binary tree, where interior nodes represent splits or rules and leaves represent classifications or values. The article then applies this concept to build a Titanic survival predictor using Python's scikit-learn package and Redis. The data is preprocessed by removing sparse columns and encoding categorical features, and a decision tree classifier is built with a maximum depth of 10. The article demonstrates how to load the decision tree into Redis using the ML.FOREST.ADD command and evaluate predictions using the ML.FOREST.RUN command. Finally, it compares the results of Redis' predictions with those of scikit-learn, showing that they are identical in all cases, including misclassifications.