Decision Tree Regression Clearly Explained!

Here, I've explained how to solve a regression problem using Decision Trees in great detail. You'll also learn the math behind splitting the nodes. The next video will show you how to code a decision tree regressor from scratch.
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[@jayo3074]

It looks hard at first but with a good teacher explaining it really is so simple

[@jamiyana4969]

Honestly this is the most high end professional video that's so simply explained! Amazing job!

[@saigopal5086]

brooooooo this is brilliant, I can't resist myself from pressing the like button, it's such a blessing to have people like you

[@hannav7125]

Shout out to this dude for the awesome visualization and clearly explanation.

[@drewplayz3765]

u kinda bad tho

[@sillem4337]

This video is next level teachning. Concept presented so clearly and so well. Thank you!

[@Ivan-cp2hn]

your explanation is so far the best in youtube up till now. Dont know why the view number and likes counts not that high. But keep doing the great work !

[@SoubhikBhattacharya]

Can you explain why X0

[@onetapmanbbr]

8:24 He explains that the algorithm compares every possible split and finds the one with the best variance reduction. So the y in X0

[@soumyarm3851]

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[@pratyushrout7904]

The nicest explanation video for DT on KZbin...

[@prashantmandare2875]

Best explanation of decision tree for regression that I have come across

[@persevere1052]

Extremely helpful and easy to understand!

[@illan731]

Great explanation. Feels too simple to have looked up on video, which means it is explained very well.

[@giacomozuccolotto4503]

great video! I still got a question tho: how did you apply the variance formula to get those starting variance values before applying the vairance reduction formula? i do not understand how the number 9744 came up

[@rishabhgarodia410]

Thanks for these visualizations! Helps a lot

[@gustavoalcarde]

Thank you so much! Very simple and visual, that's all I needed!

[@akshaypr9164]

amazing man!! love your explanation and style

[@yashsaxena7754]

Great explanation! One question though is if the prediction is based on the average value of the target variable in the leaf node, it would mean that all the observations terminating at a node will have the same prediction. Is that right? For e.g., if 10 observations are terminating at a leaf node all will have the same predictions.

[@fabianaltendorfer11]

one hell of a explanation video. great!

[@bhavinmoriya9216]

Thanks for the video! How do you decide x0

[@NormalizedNerd]

Actually, we try every possible value of the threshold and find which one produces the best split. If can go through the code for a better understanding. github.com/Suji04/ML_from_Scratch/blob/master/decision%20tree%20regression.ipynb

[@bhavinmoriya9216]

@@NormalizedNerd Thanks buddy :)

[@dilse_hindustani]

@@NormalizedNerd you have done well but plz first explain taking an example by showing every steps from first to the last with every maths used and the computation on how we get the results and why this value and not the other etc. plz teach like this so that every learner even the one who don't have basic can understand it is a request

[@sai_sh]

Hi at 4:40 why did it go towards left node rather than the right coz x=16 and x

[@yuyang5575]

This is awesome! Clearly we use a binary tree to do the classification first (or build a decision tree first), and then we follow the tree to reach the target leaf node. Btw, which software do you use to make the animation? very impressive

[@NormalizedNerd]

Thanks! Well, I use Manim (a python library)

[@himtyagi9740]

What a beautiful lecture..kudos to your efforts

[@falicitations]

Top quality video, which software do u use to create visuals?

[@HuyLe-nn5ft]

You already had 1 more subsciption, Superb explanation and visualization!

[@Rahul.alpha.Mishra]

Thanks a lot bro. And your viz helped me explain my Model in the presentation. Carry on foreward

[@jullienb2055]

Excellent visualization, kudos!

[@yurpipipchz75]

yeah, wow! Really well done!

[@himanshuverma3984]

Could not understand variance reduction part. If we're talking about the variance reduction, then as per your explanation, 2nd set should have been chosen, but you selected the first set. Am I assuming something wrong here?

[@yuvikayadav8203]

Great explanation! Just one doubt that in decision tree classifier we split the nodes until we get pure leaf nodes if hyperparameters are not clearly stated but in the case of regression problems how do it decide when to stop generating the tree if no hyperparameter is defined?

[@vasilisandreou8792]

Could you explain how the split would occur if we had 3 or more criteria please?

[@nithishar2781]

It's soo good , but i have doubt when to end the splitting ?

[@sadjiajfiarei3498]

bro you made it so easy

[@itsme1674]

Wonderful explanation

[@ismailwangde580]

Bro, you are better than krish naik lol. Thank you for the efforts. really appreciate it

[@jamalnuman]

great presentation

[@dgaphysics4026]

Great explanation!

[@rishiksarkar62]

Fabulous explanation sir! Thank you very much!!

[@ckeong9012]

Awesome. May i know what kind of software you use for the visualization?

[@AthiBalaji-q1r]

Great, but how does the model learn to arrive at the optimal splitting point

[@diabl2master]

What a brilliant video!!

[@suryahr307]

does it take care of outlier data points?

[@estefvasqu]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge. We appreciate it Greetings from Argentina

[@NormalizedNerd]

You're most welcome...Keep supporting!

[@shanks9758]

good job , thank you

[@leolei9352]

Really good teaching.

[@gatecseaspirant-dk9ze]

hello people from the future! you nailed it here

[@ahmedelsabagh6990]

Very good visualizations

[@kajalmishra6895]

I love all your videos.

[@razieqilham8327]

So in love with your explanation sir, but im confused with the dataset, could u build a dataset in table, not graph?

[@smartshoppingapp3585]

How do you find the best root node. ? Coz in video it's about finding the best split which really helped. But how to find the best root node???

[@the_senthil]

Quality content... I never seen before 💯

[@osama11osama]

I like it really, thanks

[@siddhantpathak6289]

Awesome visualization and explanation, I went through the Github implementation and it seems you are using unique feature values as possible thresholds. How this approach would work for a continuous feature with millions of records, as there will be many unique values to test. Possible thresholds in the video were 1 and 2, right? Just checking my understanding.

[@samarthtandale9121]

Incredible 🔥

[@madhumatinarule4489]

Kindly make full course on fundamentals of machine learning as we are from not from computer science

[@diegobarrientos6271]

Thanks for the explanation!, I have a question... I watched in some videos that use MSE instead of variance, so Should I use the sum of squared error or variance? It'd be great of someone could clarify this please

[@DaaniaKhalith]

MSE is used if both input and output is continuous ,variance is for discrete input n continuous output

[@takeshi7441]

Thank you sir

[@mihirsheth9918]

great explaination.thanks

[@SachinModi9]

Man... Loved it..

[@nickgeo8250]

Really good explanation well done! Only one question, how do you calculate the wi weights?

[@AidarMHTV]

The weights, I think, it's just a fraction of items for each side. For example, 2 items on left and 6 items on right gives .25 and 0.75 weights respectively.

[@XuanTran-ri1hn]

Hi, may I ask 1 thing in minute 4:41, because x=16, so I think that condition is not true for x1

[@explovictinischool2234]

This condition is, indeed, true. You may have confused x0 and x1: x0 = 16 but x1 = -2. Here, we are talking about x1

[@Mudiaga11]

this is excellent

[@subarnasubedi7938]

I am confused why you took x2

[@inderkaur3012]

Hi, Though Var R1>Var R2, how do we conclude that R2 is best suited for split? Graphically I understand your logic as the colors are best segregated due to R1, we must choose R1, but I was unable to conclude the same from variance perspective. Could you please explain the same?

[@konstantinosmaravegias4198]

Do not confuse the variance reduction with the variance of each split. VarR1 < VarR2, hence the VarR1 split reduces more variance from the parent node (1 - VarR1 > 1 - Var2)

[@candicerusser9095]

Hi, great video! A small doubt, what does "desired depth" mean in decision tree regressor, does it mean that we reach a point where we can't split anymore, like variance becomes 0?

[@jakeezetci]

i think that's the depth of the tree you want, that you need to find by trying out yourself. you want to stop before variance becomes 0, as then the prediction really goes wild

[@kellymarchisio377]

Excellent!

[@ckeong9012]

Awesome. Great video. Much appreciated if you could put the values or labels on the cartesian. TQ~

[@NormalizedNerd]

Suggestion noted...

[@kalpanakadirvel9220]

Excellent video.. Thank you

[@soniasnia]

ur video is just awesome!

[@RohitAlexKoshy]

Great video. Keep up the good work!

[@NormalizedNerd]

Thanks!

[@sebastiaanvanhassel4664]

One extra like for the classical music!!! 👏😀

[@NormalizedNerd]

😁❤

[@Randomstiontastic]

How do you find the value of the inequalities for the filters?

[@NormalizedNerd]

By checking every possible value of a feature as the threshold and splitting the dataset based on that. Then taking that particular feature and the corresponding threshold that gives the maximum information gain. Please see the code provided in the next video for more clarity.

[@Nirjhar85]

Awesome!

[@polishettysairam6466]

Its good, can you provide the dataset used here

[@asrjy]

Sick vid! Did you use manim to make this video?

[@NormalizedNerd]

Yeah!

[@asrjy]

@@NormalizedNerd nice

[@saqlainshaikh5483]

Great Expectations ✌️

[@NormalizedNerd]

Thanks!! More to come :)

[@Asmallpanda1]

Very Nice ty

[@akashkundu4520]

Can you add post prunning of the tree and visual representation of the tree please.I have an assignment 😭

[@xINeXuSlx]

Great video! Helping me a lot in preparing for my Data Science exam soon. One thing I did not quite understand yet is when I should use Decision Tree Classification or Regression? I understand that one uses Information Gain and the other Variance Reduction, but how do I know in the first place what to apply?

[@NormalizedNerd]

It depends on the problem you are trying to solve. As a thumb rule: if the target variable takes continuous values then go for regression and if it takes discrete (and few) values then go for classification.

[@xINeXuSlx]

@@NormalizedNerd I understand, thanks a lot :)

[@tinyeinmoe5147]

you're the best, thank you Soooo much, india is the best

[@robm838]

Which values are -7 and -12 cannot be found on the grid.

[@mindlessambient1791]

In the ending example, the weighted average of variance used weights with denominators of 20 (i.e. 11/20, 9/20, etc.) . Has anyone ever thought to adjust these weights using Bessel's correction? Not sure how much of a difference that would make but just curious. I am guessing that the weights would be something like 10/19 and 8/19 with this adjustment.

[@piero8284]

Nice explanation, i was struggling a little bit to find some detailed material about this topic. As I thought, decision Trees in general always check for the best split looking for every possible feature, that means if there are k features and n samples, at each split the tree will perform O(m*k) variance computations, right?

[@p337maB]

It's not O(m*k) but exactly m*k computations at every split.

[@piero8284]

@@p337maB sure

[@61_shivangbhardwaj46]

Thnx sir😊

[@NormalizedNerd]

Most welcome

[@anuragshrivastava7855]

how did we get average

[@alexandrfedorov7297]

You are awesome

[@MrHardgabi]

incredible

[@dilse_hindustani]

you have done well but plz first explain taking an example by showing every steps from first to the last with every maths used and the computation on how we get the results and why this value and not the other etc. plz teach like this so that every learner even the one who don't have basic can understand it is a request

[@JPDEV092]

how to do videos like this ?

[@paultvshow]

At 1.28, what you mentioned was misleading and could be misinterpreted. A line is still a line in 2D, a line will never be a plane in 2D. You should have said “or a plane in 3D”, or simply call it a hyperplane instead of a line or plane.

[@lucarohrer8665]

is this a decision tree or Regression Tree?

[@Rehul-gw3yj]

I actually came here to understand how we get the route note. anyone >?

[@tomgt428]

cool

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[@NormalizedNerd]

Ha bhai :))

[@ronitganguly3318]

@@NormalizedNerd bengoli accent ftw!

[@lkny631]

Loved everything! You’re awesome but bro your lines all look the same. It’s so hard to follow. Jesus couldn’t you have used bright and contrasting colors? But thank you so much for it!!

[@iloveblender8999]

Lol this looks like a kd-tree.

[@DikshuStuffyVlogs]

I can't understand

[@Gulshankumar-fg9ls]

Bro… I would suggest you to get the proper knowledge when you start teaching any topic in machin learning, sometimes your statement is vague

[@ccuuttww]

U spend a lot of time to make an animation

[@ccuuttww]

I am not sure if u should use MSE for every split

[@DustinGunnells]

How are you determining the filter splits further down from the root of the tree? I don't see the reasoning that you're using to make this useful. I see the filtering, I see data points, but what is determining the other filters from the initial filter? Why is the partitioning valuable? How would the partitioning be applied? Why would you have two of the same filter between the two x variables, x sub 0 and x sub 1? Why is x sub zero represented in the root but not x sub 1? What is the relationship/difference between the two x variables? This looks initially useful, then it looks like a bunch of snow on a cathode.

[@NormalizedNerd]

"but what is determining the other filters from the initial filter?" The initial filter (at root) divides the data into two sets. The left one is then again divided so is the right one. We do this process recursively. While splitting a set we choose the condition that maximizes variance reduction. Please see the implementation to get more clarity: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hmO9c2uZaq2UZ7M

[@DustinGunnells]

@@NormalizedNerd So are you saying that x sub 0 and x sub 1 are two sets of decision sets? Rather, two collections of boundaries? Something still looks off. If it's an array of decision boundaries, how do you jump from 1 (of x sub 0) to -7 and -12 (of x sub 1)? I've even tried to figure out the symmetry in the tree to find logic. 4 elements of x sub 1 3 elements of x sub 0. 20 partitions in the grid for 20 elements in the set. I've watched several of your videos trying to understand your message. Explain this one where it makes sense and I'll definitely continue to watch your other content. I try to give everybody that says they're providing "knowledge" a chance. This is outstandingly bonkers to me. I'm also a programmer and MBA

[@dnyaneshjalamkar4257]

Your so called autopilot ruined the video!