Research - A Gentle Introduction to Decision Trees and Random Forests with Python and R
Machine learning methods are nowadays used in a wide variety of applications. In this course, you will learn how the decision tree and random forest methods work and may be applied in practice by using either Python or R programming.
Objectives
Acquire the key competencies that are needed to apply decision tree and random forest methods to simple datasets
Target audience
Any PhD students, post-docs, researchers of UNIL who would like to use decision tree and random forest methods in their research
Content
At the end of the course, the participants are expected to:
- Understand how the decision tree and random forest algorithms work
- Run simple machine learning codes in Python or R
- Be able to choose properly the hyper-parameters of the models
Length
1 half-day
Organization
Twice a year
Location
RemotelyTo be defined or remotely
Practicals
The practicals can be done on Zoomyour
laptop Accounts(but you will need to install the required libraries), on the DCSREPFL JupyterLab, or on the UNIL cluster incalled aCurnagl. training project will be automatically created. You may try to work on your laptop, but we may not be able to help you withSee the installation page for more information.
Comment
laptop Prerequisites
- Basic knowledge of statistics
- Be confortable with either Python or R programming
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