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Come join our meet-up and learn how easily you can use R for advanced Machine learning.In this meet-up, we will demonstrate how to understand and use Xgboost for Kaggle competition.
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Speaker Bio:
Tong is a data scientist in Supstat Inc and also a master students of Data Mining.He has been an active R programmer and developer for 5 years. He is the author of the R package of XGBoost, one of the most popular and contest-winning tools onkaggle.comnowadays.
Pre-requisite(if any):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
Event arrangement:
6:45pm Doors open. Come early to network, grab a beer and settle in.
7:00-9:00pm XgBoost Demo
Reference:
https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost
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