tonicebrian

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# Introduction
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# I've been doing some data mining lately and specially looking into `Gradient
# Boosting Trees <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradient_boosting>`_ since it is
# claimed that this is one of the techniques with best performance out of the
# box.  In order to have a better understanding of the technique I've reproduced
# the example of section *10.14.1 California Housing* in the book `The Elements of Statistical Learning <http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/>`_.
# Each point of this dataset represents the house value of a property with some
# attributes of that house. You can get the data and the description of those