Alteryx Designer Desktop Ideas

MarshallG · ‎11-18-2015

XGboost regression is now the benchmark for every Kaggle competition and seems to consistently outperform random forest, spline regression, and all of the more basic models. For those of us using predictive modeling on a regular basis in our actual work, this tool would allow for a quick improvement in our model accuracy. And I think, from a marketing standpoint, having a core group of users competing in Kaggle using Alteryx would be a great way to show off Alteryx's power.

It is readily available as an R package: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/xgboost/index.html

TylerN · ‎11-18-2015

Seems like a great addition for Alteryx to include on many levels.

JohnJPS · ‎02-24-2016

I checked out the "Boosted" model and see that it basically wraps the "gbm" model in R. I would like to request a similar wrapping for the newer xgb (or xgboost) -- eXtreme Gradient Boosting, which is very fast and accurate, and is winning Kaggle competitions left and right. It would be a great addition and is something SAS probably won't have it for another 10 years, if ever.