You Evaluated your Decision Tree

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Looking at the information flow of the decision tree, some pandas like big butts, and some do not. Most other decisions in the tree appear to be inconsequential. Tallying up the score, it turns out, your decision tree isn’t much better than the previous algorithm according to your test set. It’s better, so you could get away with it. Maybe panda sexuality is just one of those areas best left untread by science. Or maybe, this is just the best you’re going to get. Or maybe, you can supervisor of the quarter award winning motivate this algorithm into something fantastic! What do you do?

Take out some Decisions, maybe panda love isn’t that complicated and getting drowned out by all the data you’re using to direct the information

Add in Big 5 Personality Trait Test, if it works for humans, why not pandas

Add in Dating Questionnaire from some magazine you accidentally stole from the dentist’s office.

Add in more physical traits, hey, that’s how you work right?

Good enough, you’re calling it a day

Published by B McGraw

B McGraw has lived a long and successful professional life as a software developer and researcher. After completing his BS in spaghetti coding at the department of the dark arts at Cranberry Lemon in 2005 he wasted no time in getting a masters in debugging by print statement in 2008 and obtaining his PhD with research in screwing up repos on Github in 2014. That's when he could finally get paid. In 2018 B McGraw finally made the big step of defaulting on his student loans and began advancing his career by adding his name on other people's research papers after finding one grammatical mistake in the Peer Review process.

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