Getting smart with Machine Learning – AdaBoost and Gradient Boost via @AnalyticsVidhya

Boosting is one of the most powerful tool used in machine learning. Let's get smart with Machine Learning with AdaBoost and Gradient Boost.

Great article to try and explain boosting in simple terms.  I would say if you have a dataset you know well then just try it and see what difference it makes against the results you already have.