Random Forests in Python

This post originally appeared on the Yhat blog. Yhat is a Brooklyn based company whose goal is to make data science applicable for developers, data scientists, and businesses alike. Yhat provides a software platform for deploying and managing predictive algorithms as REST APIs, while eliminating the painful engineering obstacles associated with production environments like testing, versioning, scaling and security. It can be used to on customer acquisition, retention, and churn or to in patients. Random forest is capable of regression and classification. It can handle a large number of features, and it's helpful for estimating which of your variables are important in the underlying data being modeled.