Talk on Boosting

Speaker: Cynon Sonkkila

The one technique all data scientists need to know: Gradient Boosted Trees.

An introduction to the principals of boosting, gradient boosting, and
the application to decision trees. Come and have some fun with these
innovative ideas that changed the world of data science.

You too will be able to construct your own award winning algorithm with
these simple building block methods.

Cynon Sonkkila is a data scientist who has worked in several fields. His
earliest work was in brain function and imaging statistics, followed by
a stint as an entrepreneur and recently a couple of decades working in
finance and actuarial forecasting. He specializes in visualization
techniques and geometrical representations.