Boosting with AdaBoost and Gradient Boosting

Have you ever been or seen a Kaggle competition? Most of the prize winners do it by using boosting algorithms. Why is AdaBoost, GBM, and XGBoost the go-to algorithm of champions?

First of all, if you never heard of Ensemble Learning or Boosting check out my post “Ensemble Learning: When everybody takes a guess…I guess!” so you can understand better these algorithms.