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Decision Tree Example: Locating A New Bar

A brewery wants to determine suitable locations for new bars using attributes about potential sites. Examples of past sites are provided, categorized as good or bad outcomes. A decision tree can be constructed from the examples to classify new sites based on attributes like proximity to schools, housing, transportation, and whether a city, university or industrial estate is nearby. The tree will help the brewery systematically assess attributes of new sites to predict their potential for success or failure.

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Decision Tree Example: Locating A New Bar

A brewery wants to determine suitable locations for new bars using attributes about potential sites. Examples of past sites are provided, categorized as good or bad outcomes. A decision tree can be constructed from the examples to classify new sites based on attributes like proximity to schools, housing, transportation, and whether a city, university or industrial estate is nearby. The tree will help the brewery systematically assess attributes of new sites to predict their potential for success or failure.

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Decision Tree Example: Locating a New Bar

Example taken from Callan, R. (2003). Artificial Intelligence, Basingstoke, UK:


Palgrave MacMillan, p. 242-247.
A brewery owns a chain of bars/restaurants and wants to construct a way in which
they can assess the suitability of a new site for a bar, based upon certain attributes.
The attributes for a set of example data are given in the following table:
City/Town

University

Housing Estate

Industrial Estate

Transport

Schools

Class

1
0

11

1
2

1
3

1
4

1
5

1
6

1
7

1
8

1
9

2
0

The attributes define whether the example is a:


1. City or town: Yes or No.
2. Has a University nearby: Yes or No.

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3. What type of housing estate, if any, is nearby: None, Small, Medium or Large.
4. Has an industrial estate nearby: Yes or No.
5. What is the quality of public transport like: Good, Average or Poor.
6. The number of schools nearby: Small, Medium or Large.
The class defines whether the brewery considers the site good (+) or bad (-).

Matthew Casey

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Exercise
In a group, complete the following tasks:
1. Using the examples, construct a decision tree that the brewery can use to assess a
new site.
Hint: look at each attribute in turn to determine if a single, or a group of
attributes and values always give either a positive (+) or negative (-) class.
2. Test your decision tree using the following examples, noting the outcome:
City/Town

University

Housing Estate

Industrial Estate

Transport

Schools

21

22

23

24

25

26

27

28

29

When thinking about these tasks, consider the following:


1. How did you construct the tree using the examples?
2. How did you choose which attribute you should use first and subsequently? Why?
3. Are there any attributes that you did not use?
4. How many trees can you construct using the same example data? If there is more
than one tree, which is the best, and why?

Matthew Casey

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