Jaroslaw Szymczak - Gradient Boosting in Practice: a deep dive into xgboost

From variety of classification and regression methods, gradient boosting, and in particular its variation in xgboost implementation, is one of the most convenient to use. Out of the box you can use it as easily as random forest. Due to its nature, when used with decision trees, you don't need to worry about co-linearities or missing values. No more worrying about normo h..