Technical Deep Dive: Random Forests

Yu Chen
Panoramic
Published in
10 min readAug 3, 2019

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Random Forests are one of the most popular machine learning models used by data scientists today. How they are actually implemented and the variety of use cases they can be applied to are often overlooked.

While this article will focus on the inner workings of Random Forests, we’ll start off by exploring the main problems this model solves.

The Bias Variance Tradeoff

One of the central tenets of statistics and machine learning is the concept of the Bias-Variance tradeoff, which states that as a…

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Yu Chen
Panoramic

Software engineer focused on ML and distributed systems