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ma2rten on May 18, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Top data mining algorithms in plain English

I feel like some of these algorithms are outdated, i.e. rarely used anymore: C4.5, Apriori, CART.

Instead I would suggest: Logistic Regression, RandomForest and Neural Networks.

shazeline on May 18, 2015 [–]

CART forms the basis of the decision trees used by scikit-learn's implementation of random forests [1]. CART may be old, but definitely not outdated.

[1] https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/blob/master/skl...

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