An End-to-End Guide to Understand the Math behind XGBoost
XGBoost has quickly become a popular machine learning technique, and a major diffrentiator in ML hackathons. Learn the math that powers it, in this article.
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45 questions to test Data Scientists on Tree Based Algorithms (Decision tree, Random Forests, XGBoost)
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Tutorial – Data Science at Command Line with R & Python (Scikit Learn)
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A Complete Tutorial on Tree Based Modeling from Scratch (in R & Python)
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Complete Guide to Parameter Tuning in XGBoost with codes in Python
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Complete Machine Learning Guide to Parameter Tuning in Gradient Boosting (GBM) in Python
Overview Learn parameter tuning in gradient boosting algorithm using Python Understand how to adjust bias-variance trade-off in machine learning for gradient boosting Introduction …
Quick Introduction to Boosting Algorithms in Machine Learning
Introduction Lots of analyst misinterpret the term ‘boosting’ used in data science. Let me provide an interesting explanation of this term. Boosting grants power to machine …
Perfect way to build a Predictive Model in less than 10 minutes
Overview Hackathons involve building predictive models in a short time span The Data Preprocessing step takes up the most share while building a model …
Learn Gradient Boosting Algorithm for better predictions (with codes in R)
Introduction The accuracy of a predictive model can be boosted in two ways: Either by embracing feature engineering or by applying boosting algorithms straight …
