A Simple Guide to Machine Learning with Decision Trees

https://www.amazon.com/Decision-Trees-Random-Forests-Introduction-ebook/dp/B078J8GFGC/

by donut2d • 8 years ago

68 13 8 years ago

kayall• 8 years ago

I'm usually not for people pushing books on HN like this, but this is entirely too relevant to my interests not to thank you for posting this. Visualizing my processes has by far been the hardest part of getting my CS degree, and I have a professor this semester as well as next that is obsessed with machine learning.

iovrthoughtthis2• 8 years ago

So. I can't buy this free book because I'm in the UK?

What?

CrazyCatDog• 8 years ago

Only free if you pay a monthly kindle subscription--which apparently does not extend into the UK.

vowelless• 8 years ago

Hmm, seems like it's free to read too. Maybe it's free for Prime customers?

pbalau• 8 years ago

It's available in uk too, via Kindle Unlimited. I think I got that with Prime. Please note, you won't buy the book, but borrow it.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Decision-Trees-Random-Forests-Intro... ?

iovrthoughtthis2• 8 years ago

This concept of free doesn't really align with my concept of free.

ollin• 8 years ago

Very high level, but I think http://www.r2d3.us/ is actually a pretty good visual intro, although it skips over information gain/CART metrics.

gregrata• 8 years ago

wow, that is nicely done!

zombieprocesses• 8 years ago

Is this an ad? News? What are we supposed to do with this submission? How did this make it to the frontpage?

grzm• 8 years ago

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A Simple Guide to Machine Learning with Decision Trees

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