I just devoured a "Data Science" course on them, and let me tell you, building one feels like planting a whole orchard of decision trees (pun intended!). Here's the gist:

1. Plant the Seeds: Imagine you have tons of seeds (data points) and you want to grow a forest that predicts stuff (like if someone will click an ad). Random forests work by planting many small decision trees, each a simple if-then rule based on a random subset of your data.

2. Let the Trees Grow: Each tree splits the data based on different features, like income for predicting ad clicks. This splitting continues until each leaf holds mostly similar data points (like high-income clickers).

3. Vote for the King/Queen: Now, when you feed a new data point to the forest, each tree gives its prediction. We count the votes from all the trees, and the majority rules! This collective wisdom predicts the outcome for the new point.

4. The Beauty of Diversity: The random features and splits make each tree slightly different, reducing overfitting. Think of it as a diverse forest offering a more reliable prediction than any single tree.

But, remember:

• Overfitting can still happen with too many trees, so tune them wisely.
• Random forests don't explain predictions as easily as some models.
• They can be computationally expensive for large datasets.

This Data Science Course will teach you how to plant, prune, and harvest insights from random forests, along with other powerful models. Remember, data science is an adventure, so explore, experiment, and let your forests tell stories!