Kevin Brownis the management accountant at and Sons Bank. Some of his colleagues attended a conference recently where they learned that machine learning can be used to accurately predict loan performance. Excited by the possibilities, they asked to work with the data science team to develop a machine learning model that predicts whether a loan will repay or default. knows that defaulting loans have significantly hurt and Sons' profitability.

Kevin tells the data science team that his colleagues will appreciate a model that is interpretable and easy to understand, so they decide to use a decision tree. The team selects a random sample of loans (three loans that defaulted and loans that repaid) from and Sons' internal loan database and begins the analysis.
 

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800 750 700 650 600 550 Credit Score Repay Default A 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 Annual Income ($000s) 1. Use your ruler to identify two possible places to make the first cut. Visually, is one of these cuts better than the other at separating the data? 2. For each potential cut, calculate the Gini impurity and the information gain. Based on these calcula- tions, which cut should be used to form the first node of the decision tree? Is this consistent with your visual intuition from requirement 1? 3. How could Kevin use the decision tree analysis to help senior managers at Boehm and Sons improve profitability? 800 750 700 650 600 550 Credit Score Repay Default A 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 Annual Income ($000s) 1. Use your ruler to identify two possible places to make the first cut. Visually, is one of these cuts better than the other at separating the data? 2. For each potential cut, calculate the Gini impurity and the information gain. Based on these calcula- tions, which cut should be used to form the first node of the decision tree? Is this consistent with your visual intuition from requirement 1? 3. How could Kevin use the decision tree analysis to help senior managers at Boehm and Sons improve profitability?

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