Kaggle Winning Solution Xgboost Algorithm - Learn from Its Author, Tong He

Speaker Bio: Tong He was a data scientist at Supstat Inc. He has been an active R programmer and developer for 5 years. He is the author of the R package XGBoost, currently one of the most popular and contest-winning tools on kaggle.com. Pre-requisite: R /Calculus Preparation: A laptop with R installed. Windows users might need to have RTools installed as well. Agenda: Introduction of Xgboost Real World Application Model Specification Parameter Introduction Advanced Features Kaggle Winning Solution Reference: https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost