--- title: Blog — DataDrive | Data Science description: Data Science | DataDrive's blog covers a variety of topics, including best practices for building modern data teams and cloud data platforms in addition to tool training for Tableau, Snowflake, Fivetran, Matillion, and Sigma Computing. --- # The DataDrive Blog #### Our take on all things data. ### Data Science [![](https://godatadrive.com/hubfs/decision-tree-data-science-applied-web.jpg) ](https://godatadrive.com/blog/data-science-applied-decision-trees) #### [Data Science Applied: Decision Trees](https://godatadrive.com/blog/data-science-applied-decision-trees) ![Picture of Shahrukh Khan](https://godatadrive.com/hs-fs/hubfs/sharukh.png?width=30&name=sharukh.png) [Shahrukh Khan](https://godatadrive.com/blog/author/shahrukhgodatadrive-com): Jul 26, 2022 In this post, we will learn how to build a basic decision tree using Python. We’ll be going over a... 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