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