Classification Using Tree Based Models

https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/tree-based-models-classification/table-of-contents

Building Decision Trees

  • Recognizing Classification Problems
  • Solving Classification Problems with Decision Trees
  • Building a Decision Tree

Predicting Survival on the Titanic Using a Decision Tree

  • Formulating the Problem
  • Preprocessing the Dataset
  • Ranking Important Features
  • Understanding the Steps in Building a Decision Tree
  • Building a Decision Tree
  • Visualizing the Decision Tree
  • Controlling the Tree Characteristics
  • Measuring the Performance of the Tree

Using Ensembles of Algorithms to Overcome Overfitting

  • Recognizing the Causes for Overfitting
  • Using Ensemble Learning to Avoid Overfitting

Predicting Survival on the Titanic Using Random Forests

  • Understanding the Random Forests Technique
  • Implementing Random Forests

Predicting Survival on the Titanic Using Gradient Boosted Trees

  • Understanding Gradient Boosted Trees
  • Implementing Gradient Boosted Trees
  • Finding the Best Parameters with Hyper-parameter Tuning