Decision Tree, Random Forest and XGBoost demystified with python code

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In this article, I introduce some of the most common used algorithm in machine learning world — decision tree, random forest and XGBoost.

All of them may be used both for regression (where we want to predict a continuous quantity, e.g. predicting price of house) and classification (where we want to predict a discrete class label, e.g…