🚀 Pro Edition → Book + Bonus Pack "Mastering CatBoost: The Hidden Gem of Tabular AI "

🔥 Pro Edition — Mastering CatBoost: The Hidden Gem of Tabular AI(Early Access)

Book + Professional Bonus Pack

The Pro Edition is the professional upgrade to Mastering CatBoost — designed for practitioners who want more than theory: reusable workflows, real case studies, and production-grade tooling.

This is the fastest way to go from knowing CatBoost to using it effectively in real systems.

By Valeriy Manokhin, PhD, MBA, CQF

“CatBoost is not just underrated — it’s objectively better.”
This book shows why, with the science, benchmarks, and code to prove it.

🚀 What the Pro Edition Includes

Everything in the core book, plus:

• ✅ Premium templates — plug-and-play CatBoost workflows
• ✅ Extended case studies — deep dives across real industries
• ✅ Cheat sheets & flashcards — fast reference for tuning and diagnostics
• ✅ Behind-the-scenes notebooks — annotated exploratory pipelines
• ✅ Model selection toolkit — Python notebooks to benchmark and compare models
• ✅ Access to live Q&A / AMA sessions (when scheduled)

📈 Built for professionals and teams who want to build faster, tune smarter, and deploy with confidence.

💸 Pricing

Pro Edition (Early Access): $60 (USD)

• Fixed price (no PWYW)
• Includes lifetime updates
• Price will increase as additional tooling, notebooks, and case studies are added

If you find value in the work — or want to support continued development — thank you ❤️

🧠 Why CatBoost?

There is strong scientific and empirical evidence that CatBoost consistently outperforms XGBoost and LightGBM on real-world tabular data — often by 20%+, as shown in large-scale benchmarks such as TabArena.

CatBoost is:

• faster at inference,
• easier to tune,
• and designed from the ground up for categorical features — without fragile preprocessing hacks.

Despite this, it remains one of the most underused tools in machine learning.
This book fixes that.

🧪 Backed by research, benchmarks, and production experience
📈 Practical, readable, hands-on for working data scientists
🔬 Connected to the open-source ecosystem (including Awesome CatBoost)

🔍 What You’ll Learn

• Core architecture — how CatBoost works under the hood
• End-to-end tabular ML pipelines
• Proper categorical encoding and missing-data handling
• Built-in overfitting detection and safeguards
• Evaluation strategies and cross-validation the CatBoost way
• Interpretability: SHAP, feature importance, monotonic constraints
• Bonus: time series with CatBoost, plus quantile & uncertainty modeling

📘 Scope & Depth — More Than “Just Boosting”

Mastering CatBoost covers:

• Classification, regression, ranking, time series, and quantile models
• Deep treatment of categorical features (CatBoost’s key advantage)
• Native overfitting detection, monotonic constraints, and interpretability tools
• Deployment-ready workflows tuned for real tabular problems

🏗️ Under-the-Hood & Scientific Advantages

Many resources stop at tuning tips.

This book explains:

• ordered boosting, symmetric trees, and smoothed target statistics
• why CatBoost avoids categorical leakage by design
• why benchmarks repeatedly show CatBoost outperforming alternatives
• modern capabilities: GPU training, quantization, ONNX export

👨‍💻 Who the Pro Edition Is For

• ML engineers working on structured/tabular data
• Data scientists tired of brittle pipelines and endless tuning
• Researchers who’ve hit limits with XGBoost / sklearn
• Practitioners who want faster iteration with fewer bugs

If you value robustness, speed, and real performance, the Pro Edition is for you.

📦 What You Get (Summary)

• Instant access to the full book
• All future updates (chapters + tooling)
• Pro-only notebooks, templates, and case studies
• Private Discord access and early bonuses

⚡ Ready to master the strongest tabular model in ML?

CatBoost isn’t just another gradient booster.
It’s one of the most underappreciated breakthroughs in machine learning.

👉 Upgrade to the Pro Edition and start building better tabular models today.