Square Machine Learning Interview: Decision Tree Bank Loan

Опубликовано: 04 Март 2026
на канале: Jay Feng
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Today's guest is Jeff, a friend and an Interview Query coach with whom I previously had a mock interview last year. We'll go through another machine learning interview question. How do we evaluate whether using a decision tree algorithm is the correct model for loan prediction?

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Video Breakdown:
00:00 - Introduction
00:06 - Question
00:47 - Clarifying questions
01:00 - Business Context of the question
04:38 - Current model and the Quality of Performance
07:47 - Possible Solutions: Decision Tree vs Random Forest
14:30 - Evaluate the performance of the Decision Tree Model

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