Tutorials

CatBoost is well covered with educational materials for both novice and advanced machine learners and data scientists.

Video tutorial

This tutorial gives a short introduction to CatBoost and showcases its' functionality in Jupyter Notebook.

Video

Note that the links to the materials at the start of the presentation no longer work, you can find the Jupyter notebook here instead.

Getting started tutorials

• CatBoost tutorial
• Solving classification problems with CatBoost

These Python tutorials show how to start working with CatBoost.

Perform the following steps to use them:

1. Download the tutorials using one of the following methods:

   • Click the Download button on the github page
   • Clone the whole repository using the following command:

   git clone https://github.com/catboost/tutorials
   

2. Run Jupyter Notebook in the directory with the required ipynb file.

CatBoost on GPU

This tutorial shows how to run CatBoost on GPU with Google Colaboratory.

Tutorials in the CatBoost repository

The CatBoost repository contains several tutorials on various topics, including but no limited to:

• how to apply the model
• how to use custom losses
• how to train a ranking model
• how to perform hyperparameter search

Courses

Check out a free part of the Introduction to Competitive Data Science course. The assignment helps to explore all basic functions and implementation features of the CatBoost Python package and understand how to win a Data Science Competition. (in Russian)

Applying CatBoost models in ClickHouse

The ClickHouse documentation contains a tutorial on applying a CatBoost model in ClickHouse.