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#Awesome XGBoost

Welcome to the wonderland of XGBoost. This page contains a curated list of awesome XGBoost examples, tutorials and blogs. It is inspired by [awesom-MXnet](https://github.com/dmlc/mxnet/blob/master/example/README.md), [awesome-php](https://github.com/ziadoz/awesome-php) and [awesome-machine-learning](https://github.com/josephmisiti/awesome-machine-learning).

## Contributing

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**Table of Contents** *generated with [DocToc](https://github.com/thlorenz/doctoc)*

- [Awesome XGBoost](#awesome-xgboost)
- [Contributing](#contributing)
- [Examples](#examples)
- [Features Walkthrough](#features-walkthrough)
- [Basic Examples by Tasks](#basic-examples-by-tasks)
- [Benchmarks](#benchmarks)
- [Machine Learning Challenge Winning Solutions](#machine-learning-challenge-winning-solutions)
- [Tutorials](#tutorials)
- [Tools with XGBoost](#tools-with-xgboost)
- [Services Powered by XGBoost](#services-powered-by-xgboost)
- [Awards](#awards)

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Awesome XGBoost
======
Welcome to the wonderland of XGBoost. This page contains a curated list of awesome XGBoost examples, tutorials and blogs. It is inspired by [awesome-MXNet](https://github.com/dmlc/mxnet/blob/master/example/README.md), [awesome-php](https://github.com/ziadoz/awesome-php) and [awesome-machine-learning](https://github.com/josephmisiti/awesome-machine-learning).

Contributing
----
* Contribution of examples, benchmarks is more than welcome!
* If you like to share how you use xgboost to solve your problem, send a pull request:)
* If you want to contribute to this list and the examples, please open a new pull request.

##List of examples

Examples
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### Features Walkthrough

This is a list of short codes introducing different functionalities of xgboost packages.
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"Over the last six months, a new algorithm has come up on Kaggle __winning every single competition__ in this category, it is an algorithm called __XGBoost__." -- Anthony Goldbloom, Founder & CEO of Kaggle (from his presentation "What Is Winning on Kaggle?" [youtube link](https://youtu.be/GTs5ZQ6XwUM?t=7m7s))

* XGBoost helps Marios Michailidis, Mathias Müller and HJ van Veen to win (1st place) the [Dato Truely Native? competition](https://www.kaggle.com/c/dato-native). Check out the [interview from Kaggle](http://blog.kaggle.com/2015/12/03/dato-winners-interview-1st-place-mad-professors/).
* XGBoost helps Vlad Mironov, Alexander Guschin to win (1st place) the [CERN LHCb experiment Flavour of Physics competition](https://www.kaggle.com/c/flavours-of-physics). Check out the [interview from Kaggle](http://blog.kaggle.com/2015/11/30/flavour-of-physics-technical-write-up-1st-place-go-polar-bears/).
* XGBoost helps Josef Slavicek to win (3rd place) the [CERN LHCb experiment Flavour of Physics competition](https://www.kaggle.com/c/flavours-of-physics). Check out the [interview from Kaggle](http://blog.kaggle.com/2015/11/23/flavour-of-physics-winners-interview-3rd-place-josef-slavicek/).
* XGBoost helps Mario Filho, Josef Feigl, Lucas, Gilberto to win (1st place) the [Caterpillar Tube Pricing competition](https://www.kaggle.com/c/caterpillar-tube-pricing). Check out the [interview from Kaggle](http://blog.kaggle.com/2015/09/22/caterpillar-winners-interview-1st-place-gilberto-josef-leustagos-mario/).
* XGBoost helps Qingchen Wang to win (1st place) the [Liberty Mutual Property Inspection](https://www.kaggle.com/c/liberty-mutual-group-property-inspection-prediction). Check out the [interview from Kaggle](http://blog.kaggle.com/2015/09/28/liberty-mutual-property-inspection-winners-interview-qingchen-wang/).
* XGBoost helps Chenglong Chen to win (1st place) the [Crowdflower Search Results Relevance](https://www.kaggle.com/c/crowdflower-search-relevance). Check out the [Winning solution](https://www.kaggle.com/c/crowdflower-search-relevance/forums/t/15186/1st-place-winner-solution-chenglong-chen/).
* XGBoost helps Alexandre Barachant (“Cat”) and Rafał Cycoń (“Dog”) to win (1st place) the [Grasp-and-Lift EEG Detection](https://www.kaggle.com/c/grasp-and-lift-eeg-detection). Check out the [interview from Kaggle](http://blog.kaggle.com/2015/10/12/grasp-and-lift-eeg-winners-interview-1st-place-cat-dog/).
* XGBoost helps Halla Yang to win (2nd place) the [Recruit Coupon Purchase Prediction Challenge](https://www.kaggle.com/c/coupon-purchase-prediction). Check out the [interview from Kaggle](http://blog.kaggle.com/2015/10/21/recruit-coupon-purchase-winners-interview-2nd-place-halla-yang/).
* XGBoost helps Owen Zhang to win (1st place) the [Avito Context Ad Clicks competition](https://www.kaggle.com/c/avito-context-ad-clicks). Check out the [interview from Kaggle](http://blog.kaggle.com/2015/08/26/avito-winners-interview-1st-place-owen-zhang/).
* There are many other great winning solutions and interviews, but this list is [too small](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_Last_Theorem) to put all of them here. Please send pull requests if important ones appear.
XGBoost has helped on these winning solutions:

* Marios Michailidis, Mathias Müller and HJ van Veen, 1st place of the [Dato Truely Native? competition](https://www.kaggle.com/c/dato-native). Link to [the Kaggle interview](http://blog.kaggle.com/2015/12/03/dato-winners-interview-1st-place-mad-professors/).
* Vlad Mironov, Alexander Guschin, 1st place of the [CERN LHCb experiment Flavour of Physics competition](https://www.kaggle.com/c/flavours-of-physics). Link to [the Kaggle interview](http://blog.kaggle.com/2015/11/30/flavour-of-physics-technical-write-up-1st-place-go-polar-bears/).
* Josef Slavicek, 3rd place of the [CERN LHCb experiment Flavour of Physics competition](https://www.kaggle.com/c/flavours-of-physics). Link to [the Kaggle interview](http://blog.kaggle.com/2015/11/23/flavour-of-physics-winners-interview-3rd-place-josef-slavicek/).
* Mario Filho, Josef Feigl, Lucas, Gilberto, 1st place of the [Caterpillar Tube Pricing competition](https://www.kaggle.com/c/caterpillar-tube-pricing). Link to [the Kaggle interview](http://blog.kaggle.com/2015/09/22/caterpillar-winners-interview-1st-place-gilberto-josef-leustagos-mario/).
* Qingchen Wang, 1st place of the [Liberty Mutual Property Inspection](https://www.kaggle.com/c/liberty-mutual-group-property-inspection-prediction). Link to [the Kaggle interview] (http://blog.kaggle.com/2015/09/28/liberty-mutual-property-inspection-winners-interview-qingchen-wang/).
* Chenglong Chen, 1st place of the [Crowdflower Search Results Relevance](https://www.kaggle.com/c/crowdflower-search-relevance). [Link to the winning solution](https://www.kaggle.com/c/crowdflower-search-relevance/forums/t/15186/1st-place-winner-solution-chenglong-chen/).
* Alexandre Barachant (“Cat”) and Rafał Cycoń (“Dog”), 1st place of the [Grasp-and-Lift EEG Detection](https://www.kaggle.com/c/grasp-and-lift-eeg-detection). Link to [the Kaggle interview](http://blog.kaggle.com/2015/10/12/grasp-and-lift-eeg-winners-interview-1st-place-cat-dog/).
* Halla Yang, 2nd place of the [Recruit Coupon Purchase Prediction Challenge](https://www.kaggle.com/c/coupon-purchase-prediction). Link to [the Kaggle interview](http://blog.kaggle.com/2015/10/21/recruit-coupon-purchase-winners-interview-2nd-place-halla-yang/).
* Owen Zhang, 1st place of the [Avito Context Ad Clicks competition](https://www.kaggle.com/c/avito-context-ad-clicks). Link to [the Kaggle interview](http://blog.kaggle.com/2015/08/26/avito-winners-interview-1st-place-owen-zhang/).

There are many other great winning solutions and interviews, but this list is [too small](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_Last_Theorem) to put all of them here. Please send pull requests if important ones appear.


## List of Tutorials
## Tutorials

* "[Open Source Tools & Data Science Competitions](http://www.slideshare.net/odsc/owen-zhangopen-sourcetoolsanddscompetitions1)" by Owen Zhang - XGBoost parameter tuning tips
* "[Tips for data science competitions](http://www.slideshare.net/OwenZhang2/tips-for-data-science-competitions)" by Owen Zhang - Page 14
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* "[Ensemble Decision Tree with XGBoost](https://www.kaggle.com/binghsu/predict-west-nile-virus/xgboost-starter-code-python-0-69)" by [Bing Xu](https://www.kaggle.com/binghsu)
* "[Notes on eXtreme Gradient Boosting](http://startup.ml/blog/xgboost)" by ARSHAK NAVRUZYAN ([iPython Notebook](https://github.com/startupml/koan/blob/master/eXtreme%20Gradient%20Boosting.ipynb))

## List of Tools with XGBoost
## Tools with XGBoost

* [BayesBoost](https://github.com/mpearmain/BayesBoost) - Bayesian Optimization using xgboost and sklearn API

## List of Services Powered by XGBoost
## Services Powered by XGBoost

* [Seldon predictive service powered by XGBoost](http://docs.seldon.io/iris-demo.html)
* [ODPS by Alibaba](https://yq.aliyun.com/articles/6355) (in Chinese)

## List of Awards
## Awards

* [John Chambers Award](http://stat-computing.org/awards/jmc/winners.html) - 2016 Winner: XGBoost, by Tong He (Simon Fraser University) and Tianqi Chen (University of Washington)

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