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NOTE: This video has been updated and revised. The new version can be found here: https://youtu.be/_L39rN6gz7Y This StatQuest focuses on the machine learning topic "Decision Trees". Decision trees are a simple way to convert a table of data that you have sitting around your desk into a means to predict and classify new data as it comes. There is a minor error at 12:43: The Gini Impurity for Chest Pain should be 0.19. There is another minor error at 14:39: We should plug in 0.375 instead of 0.336. For a complete index of all the StatQuest videos, check out: https://statquest.org/video-index/ If you'd like to support StatQuest, please consider... Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/statquest ...or... YouTube Membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtYLUTtgS3k1Fg4y5tAhLbw/join ...buying one of my books, a study guide, a t-shirt or hoodie, or a song from the StatQuest store... https://statquest.org/statquest-store/ ...or just donating to StatQuest! https://www.paypal.me/statquest Lastly, if you want to keep up with me as I research and create new StatQuests, follow me on twitter: https://twitter.com/joshuastarmer 0:00 Awesome song and introduction 0:15 How to use decision trees to make decisions 1:36 Descriptions of decision trees and their parts 3:29 How to build a decision tree 7:06 Calculating Gini Impurity 13:59 Numeric and continuous variables 15:31 Ranked data 16:08 Multiple choice data #statquest #decisiontree #ML