Click-Through Rate (CTR) Prediction using Decision Trees

1. Introduction In this tutorial, we will try to predict click-through rate of ads with the Decision Tree algorithm we learnt in the last post. Before continuing, I would recommend you to first read that post for a theoretical understanding of Decision Trees. What does Click-Through Rate Prediction mean? Let's assume that you are designing...

Understanding Decision Trees

Tree based algorithms are among the most common and best supervised Machine Learning algorithms. Decision Trees follow a human-like decision making approach by breaking the decision problem into many smaller decisions.  As opposed to black-box models like SVM and Neural Networks, Decision Trees can be represented visually and are easy to interpret. How is decision...

Machine Learning Algorithms 101

This blog post is for the newbies who want to quickly understand the basics of the most popular Machine Learning algorithms. I am assuming that you have read the previous article regarding types or categories of algorithms. If not, I would suggest you to read that first. In this quick tour you will learn about:...