CatBoost - the new generation of gradient boosting - Anna Veronika Dorogush

PyData London 2018 CatBoost () is a new open-source gradient boosting library, that outperforms existing publicly available implementations of gradient boosting in terms of quality. The talk will cover a broad description of gradient boosting and its areas of usage and the differences between CatBoost and other gradient boosting libraries. We will also briefly explain the details of the proprie --- PyData is an educational program of NumFOCUS, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization in the United States. PyData provides a forum for the international community of users and developers of data analysis tools to share ideas and learn from each other. The global PyData network promotes discussion of best practices, new approaches, and emerging technologies for data management, processing, analytics, and visualization. PyData communities approach data science using many languages, including (but not limited to) Python, Julia, and R.