Schedule
Time | Episode Title | Overview |
Setup | Things to complete before starting this lesson. | |
00:00 | 1. Introduction |
What is a random forest ?
How are random forests used ? When might I want to use a random forest ? |
00:10 | 2. Decision Trees |
What is a Decision Tree ?
What are the major drawbacks of Decision Trees ? |
00:20 | 3. Ensemble Learning |
What is an ensemble method ?
What is bagging ? What is feature bagging ? |
00:30 | 4. The Random Forest |
How is a Random Forest an ensemble method ?
How is bootstrap aggregation applied to our decision trees ? How is feature bagging applied to decision tree modeling ? |
00:40 | 5. Training a Random Forest |
How do I train a Random Forest in sklearn ?
How do I make a prediction on my trained model ? How do I create diagnostic graphs to understand how my model is performing ? |
00:50 | 6. Feature Importance | How can I determine how important a variable is to the model? |
00:55 | Finish |