Practicality of Decision Trees

Good piece on the pros and Cons and design of Decision trees, which we often selected as a first approach when we addressed a problem.  Not because we were certain it was the best approach, but because it started with something that was almost always included, a human decision.   Even if there was no obvious human decision being made, we made it a point to look for one, either before the machine decision, in constructing data, or afterwards in using the analytical results.  And, as the piece below suggests, its the easiest to explain.

Building Blocks of Decision Trees
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