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Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Business Intelligence Development Beginner's Guide

By : Abolfazl Radgoudarzi, Reza Rad
Book Image

Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Business Intelligence Development Beginner's Guide

By: Abolfazl Radgoudarzi, Reza Rad

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Business Intelligence Development Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The Microsoft Decision Tree algorithm


The decision tree is one of the most common algorithms in decision making. The algorithm identifies nodes and builds the tree based on those nodes. Each node will be a decision made on a selection of attributes, for example, customers who are under 40 years of age or over 40. The next node will be another decision, and a sequence of decisions made on each tree level will end up with a subset of data. In this section, we will use the decision tree algorithm to find out what the attribute values were that led someone to buy a bicycle. In the next chapter, we will use the result of this algorithm to perform some prediction.