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# [Decision Trees, Random Forests, and the Art of Knowing When Simple Is Enough](https://godwithus.hashnode.dev/decision-trees-random-forests-and-the-art-of-knowing-when-simple-is-enough?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Week 18 of my data science internship at DataraFlow shifted the focus from distance-based and probabilistic classifiers to tree-based methods; a family of algorithms that don't just predict outcomes,

Mar 2 · 16 min read · godwithus.hashnode.dev  
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