XGBoost explainability

Setup

1. Install Vagrant
2. In a console change to the repository folder
3. Edit the memory / cpu settings and the forwarded ports (8888, 8889) in Vagrantfile if necessary
4. Run vagrant up (takes a while, likely 30min+)
5. SSH into the virtual machine with vagrant ssh
6. Set Jupyter password with jupyter notebook password

Running the Jupyter notebook

1. Change into the jupyter folder
2. Start Jupyter notebook server with jupyter notebook
3. Open browser at http://localhost:8888/
4. Open the notebook XGBoost explainability.ipynb

Presenting the Jupyter notebook as slide show

The cells in the notebook feature a slide show configuration, which can be inspected with the menu entry View -> Cell Toolbar -> Slideshow.

For presenting the notebook as slide show, you may either use RISE or the built-in slide conversion with nbconvert. RISE features live cell evaluation and seems to cause less issues in Chrome, while nbconvert supports speaker notes with the local reveal.js installation.

Using RISE

1. Open browser at http://localhost:8888/
2. Open the notebook XGBoost explainability.ipynb
3. Switch to the live slide show mode by pressing Alt+R or by clicking the button in the toolbar (on the far right)

Using the built-in conversion with nbconvert

1. Change into jupyter folder
2. jupyter nbconvert XGBoost\ explainability.ipynb --to slides --reveal-prefix lib/reveal.js --post serve --ServePostProcessor.ip='0.0.0.0'
3. Open browser at http://localhost:8889