Displayr Gradient Boosting - the coolest kid on the machine learning block

Gradient boosting is a technique attracting attention for its prediction speed and accuracy, especially with large and complex data. As evidenced in the chart below showing the rapid growth of Google searches for xgboost (the best gradient boosting R package). From data science competitions to machine learning solutions for business, gradient boosting has produced best-in-class results. In this blog post I describe what it is and how to use it in Displayr. Gradient boosting is a type of boosting.