Python Artificial Intelligence Projects for Beginners

Predicting bird species with random forests
Here we will be using random forests to predict a bird's species. We will use the Caltech-
UC San Diego dataset (
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),
which contains about 12,000 photos of birds from 200 different species. Here we are not
going to look at the pictures because that would need a 
convolutional neural network
(
CNN
) and this will be covered in later chapters. CNNs can handle pictures much better
than a random forest. Instead, we will be using attributes of the birds such as size, shape,
and color.

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Prediction with Random Forests
Chapter 2
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Here are just some of the species in the dataset:
Some, such as the