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by pplonski86 2573 days ago
You are right, CatBoost is an amazing algorithm. However, you will be shocked when you will talk with many older senior data scientist, that never heard of Xgboost or LightGBM. CatBoost for them is far too new.
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ramraj07 2573 days ago
Thank God I came across it in kaggle. Definitely amazing and it also gives easy python export of the model so you can put it as an udf in databases!
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vladf 2568 days ago
Interesting -- could you elaborate on your use case here?
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misterman0 2573 days ago
>> as an udf

What exactly is that?

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kurthr 2573 days ago
Just a guess on my part, but UserDefinedFunction?
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sheeshkebab 2573 days ago
User defined field perhaps?
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