decision trees you have nodes and in every node you choose the best split between a lot of features and you make this procedure recursively until we finish with the stopping criteria again I'm gonna illustrate this with an example let's say you want to find out we should accept a new job offer the first thought might be well how much is the salary is it above some threshold if it's not you're definitely not gonna take the job but if it is then do you have to commute for a long while do they are free coffee we'd have a food table I