Decision tree Introduction o The Decision Tree is one of the most powerful and popular classification and prediction algorithms in current use in data mining and machine learning The attractiveness of decision trees is due to the fact that in contrast to neural networks decision trees represent rules o Rules can readily be expressed so that humans can understand them or even directly used in a database access language like sQL so that records falling into a particular category may be retrieved4 Decision Tree Introduction ⚫ The Decision Tree is one of the most powerful and popular classification and prediction algorithms in current use in data mining and machine learning. ⚫ The attractiveness of decision trees is due to the fact that, in contrast to neural networks, decision trees represent rules. ⚫ Rules can readily be expressed so that humans can understand them or even directly used in a database access language like SQL so that records falling into a particular category may be retrieved