--- title: Explainer: What Is a Random Forest? | daily.dev description: A random forest is a supervised algorithm that uses an ensemble learning method consisting of decision trees to provide the best answer to a problem. It can be... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/explainer-what-is-a-random-forest--2out08zkr twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Explainer: What Is a Random Forest? | daily.dev og:description: A random forest is a supervised algorithm that uses an ensemble learning method consisting of decision trees to provide the best answer to a problem. It can be... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/explainer-what-is-a-random-forest--2out08zkr og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/2Out08zKR.png og:image:alt: Explainer: What Is a Random Forest? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Explainer: What Is a Random Forest? **[NVIDIA Developer](https://daily.dev/sources/nvidiadev)** · 1 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A random forest is a supervised algorithm that uses an ensemble learning method consisting of decision trees to provide the best answer to a problem. It can be used for classification or regression. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#classification](https://daily.dev/tags/classification), [#random-forest](https://daily.dev/tags/random-forest) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/explainer-what-is-a-random-forest--2out08zkr) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Explainer: What Is a Random Forest?","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/explainer-what-is-a-random-forest--2out08zkr","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/explainer-what-is-a-random-forest--2out08zkr"},"datePublished":"2024-03-15T19:10:14.093Z","dateModified":"2024-05-09T08:43:33.910Z","description":"A random forest is a supervised algorithm that uses an ensemble learning method consisting of decision trees to provide the best answer to a problem. It can be...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/a920dcb4476270654c0b708f06e1d7fc?_a=AQAEufR","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/a920dcb4476270654c0b708f06e1d7fc?_a=AQAEufR","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"NVIDIA Developer","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"NVIDIA Developer","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/86e45aab42ba48ce83103d01b1119910","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/nvidiadev"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/explainer-what-is-a-random-forest--2out08zkr","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":3},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"classification,random-forest","timeRequired":"PT1M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"NVIDIA Developer","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/nvidiadev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Explainer: What Is a Random Forest?"}]} ```