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Meet the winners of the Forecast and Final Prize Stages of the Water Supply Forecast Rodeo

DrivenData Labs

Final Stage Overall Prizes where models were rigorously evaluated with cross-validation and model reports were judged by a panel of experts. The cross-validations for all winners were reproduced by the DrivenData team. Lower is better. Unsurprisingly, the 0.10 quantile was easier to predict than the 0.90

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Scaling Kaggle Competitions Using XGBoost: Part 4

PyImageSearch

The reasoning behind that is simple; whatever we have learned till now, be it adaptive boosting, decision trees, or gradient boosting, have very distinct statistical foundations which require you to get your hands dirty with the math behind them. , you already know that our approach in this series is math-heavy instead of code-heavy.