Random Forests make a simple, yet effective, machine learning method. They are made out of decision trees, but don’t have the same problems with accuracy. In this video, I walk you through the steps to build, use and evaluate a random forest.

0:00 Awesome song and introduction
0:31 Motivation for using Random Forests
1:17 Step 1, create a bootstrapped dataset
2:23 Step 2, create a decision tree a random subset of variables at each step
4:00 Step 3, repeat steps 1 and 2 a bunch of times
4:40 Classifying a new sample with a Random Forest
5:41 Definition of Bagging
6:03 Evaluating a Random Forest
8:34 Optimizing the Random Forest

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