Cheshta Dhingra – Medium
An intuitive visual guide to a powerful ML algorithm applied to predict voting patterns among the US States. Have you ever wondered why certain states tend to vote Republican while others vote Democrat? Is there a way to predict which way a state will vote in any given year? Letâs say we want to predict whether a state is âredâ or âblueâ based on a few variables that we observe about it. To do this, weâll use Decision Trees. Red and Blue Map, 2016; Image from Wikipedia Decision trees are both a classification and regression supervised learning model used to pre...
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