Forecasting with Decision Trees and Random Forests

Random Forests are flexible and powerful when it comes to tabular data. Do they also work for time-series forecasting? Let’s find out.

Introduction

Today, Deep Learning dominates many areas of modern machine learning. On the other hand, Decision Tree based models still shine particularly for tabular data. If you look up the winning solutions of respective Kaggle challenges, chances are high that a tree model is among them.

A key advantage of tree approaches …

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