The Data Science Lab Binary Classification Using a scikit Decision Tree Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research says decision trees are useful for relatively small datasets and when the trained ...

The visual data mining process, seen in the first part of this two-part article, revealed patterns in four dimensions between cumulative gas well production and independent variables. "Jump ...

But there is also some empirical work comparing various algorithms across many datasets and drawing some conclusions, what types of problems tend to do better with trees vs logistic regression.