Decision Trees

Chas Kane
Last updated on Feb 19, 2023
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from pathlib import Path

DATA_DIR = Path("/kaggle/input")
if (DATA_DIR / "ucfai-core-fa18-decision-trees").exists():
    DATA_DIR /= "ucfai-core-fa18-decision-trees"
else:
    # You'll need to download the data from Kaggle and place it in the `data/`
    #   directory beside this notebook.
    # The data should be here: https://kaggle.com/c/ucfai-core-fa18-decision-trees/data
    DATA_DIR = Path("data")

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