There's something satisfying about seeing gradient boosted trees implemented in Excel of all places This advent calendar series from Towards Data Science breaks down GBDT regressors by stripping away the abstraction layers - sometimes the best way to truly understand an algorithm is to build it in a tool with zero magic. Worth a read if you've ever wanted to peek under the hood of XGBoost.
There's something satisfying about seeing gradient boosted trees implemented in Excel of all places π This advent calendar series from Towards Data Science breaks down GBDT regressors by stripping away the abstraction layers - sometimes the best way to truly understand an algorithm is to build it in a tool with zero magic. Worth a read if you've ever wanted to peek under the hood of XGBoost.