diff --git a/05_classifiers_overview.ipynb b/05_classifiers_overview.ipynb index 18908f4411af63b7d6c849269a741f6421d619a3..9591ed35e1beade303c791e61c81580138c337c2 100644 --- a/05_classifiers_overview.ipynb +++ b/05_classifiers_overview.ipynb @@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ "- Decision trees\n", "- Random forests\n", "\n", + "- XGboost (https://xgboost.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) (not part of scikit-learn, won many kaggle competitions https://www.kaggle.com/dansbecker/xgboost, offers scikit-learn API https://www.kaggle.com/stuarthallows/using-xgboost-with-scikit-learn)\n", + "\n", + "\n", "For every classifier: some examples for decision surfaces.\n", "\n", "Historical information ?" @@ -93,7 +96,9 @@ "\n", "Hard to intepret the internals.\n", "\n", - "for rbf: gamma parameter is \"decline rate\" of rbf functions, controls smoothness of decision surface.\n" + "for rbf: gamma parameter is \"decline rate\" of rbf functions, controls smoothness of decision surface.\n", + "\n", + "feature scaling is crucial for good performance !" ] }, {