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* updated instructions in examples to match one from ranking example

* removed excess new line

- Add reference to documentation on the query data format.
- Refer readers to the official install instructions.
- Change command to use relative path to the `lightgbm` binary built at
the project's root when following build instructions.

* Fix bug where small values of max_bin cause crash.

* Revert "Fix bug where small values of max_bin cause crash."

This reverts commit fe5c8e2547057c1fa5750bcddd359dd7708fab4b.

* Add functionality to force bin thresholds.

* Fix style issues.

* Use stable sort.

* Minor style and doc fixes.

* Add functionality to force bin thresholds.

* Fix style issues.

* Use stable sort.

* Minor style and doc fixes.

* Change binning behavior to be same as PR #2342.

* Add functionality to force bin thresholds.

* Fix style issues.

* Use stable sort.

* Minor style and doc fixes.

* Add functionality to force bin thresholds.

* Fix style issues.

* Use stable sort.

* Minor style and doc fixes.

* Change binning behavior to be same as PR #2342.

* Add functionality to force bin thresholds.

* Fix style issues.

* Minor style and doc fixes.

* Add functionality to force bin thresholds.

* Fix style issues.

* Minor style and doc fixes.

* Change binning behavior to be same as PR #2342.

* Add functionality to force bin thresholds.

* Fix style issues.

* Use stable sort.

* Minor style and doc fixes.

* Add functionality to force bin thresholds.

* Fix style issues.

* Use stable sort.

* Minor style and doc fixes.

* Change binning behavior to be same as PR #2342.

* Use different bin finding function for predefined bounds.

* Fix style issues.

* Minor refactoring, overload FindBinWithZeroAsOneBin.

* Fix style issues.

* Fix bug and add new test.

* Add warning when using categorical features with forced bins.

* Pass forced_upper_bounds by reference.

* Pass container types by const reference.

* Get categorical features using FeatureBinMapper.

* Fix bug for small max_bin.

* Move GetForcedBins to DatasetLoader.

* Find forced bins in dataset_loader.

* Minor fixes.

* Fix bug where small values of max_bin cause crash.

* Revert "Fix bug where small values of max_bin cause crash."

This reverts commit fe5c8e2547057c1fa5750bcddd359dd7708fab4b.

* Add json files for forced bin example.

* Add second json file.

* updated default value for precision in plot_importance function

* fixed typo

* updated example notebook

* add weight in tree model output

* fix bug

* updated Python plotting part to handle weights

* fix travis badge

* updated GitHub Microsoft URL

* added plot_split_value_histogram function

* updated init module

* added plot split value histogram example

* added plot_split_value_histogram to notebook

* added test

* fixed pylint

* updated API docs

* fixed grammar

* set y ticks to int value in more sufficient way

* updated gitignore

* updated tree index with cat feature

* made notebook example interactive

* cleanup

* adding plot example ipynb

* moving notebook to its own notebook folder

* rename notebook folder and ipynb to lowercase and snake case

* fixing importerror, version strings, file imports, printing-->plotting

* removing missed f-string modifier

* added docstring style test and fixed errors in existing docstrings

* hotfix

* hotfix

* fix grammar

* hotfix

* fixed FutureWarning about cv default value

* fixed according to new check_estimator API

* fixed joblib warning

* added example about custom feval with sklearn wrapper

* fixed pylint

* added new example in contents

* unified run example commands for Windows and Linux

* added note about comments in examples conf files

* removed excess import

* added tests for plotting trees in Python

* refined module_INSTALLED mechanism

* added note about that create_tree_digraph is better than plot_tree

* added missed description of plot_example in python_guide folder and fixed consistency for packages naming

* more reliable OS detection

* fixed grammar

* made pylint happy

* Note the relationship between `binary` and `xentropy` in the docs and provide an example that compares them

* Pass pylint and fix docs formatting. "pylint: disable = no-name-in-module" because pylint does not believe scipy.special contains expit

* pass pycodestyle

* pass pycodestyle with correct flags; document example in readme

* updated pep8 to pycodestyle

* fixed E722 do not use bare 'except'

* fixed W605 invalid escape sequence '\*'

* fixed W504 line break after binary operator

* ignore W605 invalid escape sequence '\*' in nuget builder

* made pycodestyle happy

* add winning solutions

* fix link

* change to table

* add init_score & test cpp and python result consistency

* try fix common.h

* Fix tests (#3)

* update atof

* fix bug

* fix tests.

* fix bug

* fix dtypes

* fix categorical feature override

* fix protobuf on vs build (#1004)

* [optional] support protobuf

* fix windows/LightGBM.vcxproj

* add doc

* fix doc

* fix vs support (#2)

* fix vs support

* fix cmake

* fix #1012

* [python] add network config api  (#1019)

* add network

* update doc

* add float tolerance in bin finder.

* fix a bug

* update tests

* add double torelance on tree model

* fix tests

* simplify the double comparison

* fix lightsvm zero base

* move double tolerance to the bin finder.

* fix pylint

* clean test.sh

* add sklearn test

* remove underline

* clean codes

* set random_state=None

* add last line

* fix doc

* rename file

* try fix test

* fixed Python-API references

* moved Features section to ReadTheDocs

* fixed index of ReadTheDocs

* moved Experiments section to ReadTheDocs

* fixed capital letter

* fixed citing

* moved Parallel Learning section to ReadTheDocs

* fixed markdown

* fixed Python-API

* fixed link to Quick-Start

* fixed gpu docker README

* moved Installation Guide from wiki to ReadTheDocs

* removed references to wiki

* fixed capital letters in headings

* hotfixes

* fixed non-Unicode symbols and reference to Python API

* fixed citing references

* fixed links in .md files

* fixed links in .rst files

* store images locally in the repo

* fixed missed word

* fixed indent in Experiments.rst

* fixed 'Duplicate implicit target name' message which is successfully
resolved by adding anchors

* less verbose

* prevented maito: ref creation

* fixed indents

* fixed 404

* fixed 403

* fixed 301

* fixed fake anchors

* fixed file extentions

* fixed Sphinx warnings

* added StrikerRUS profile link to FAQ

* added henry0312 profile link to FAQ

* add python examples to test [test should fail]

* fix example && move some to advanced_example

* fix last line

* refine test python version

The example page state that "simple_example.py" should feature an example of json dump, but that was missing.

* improved sklearn interface; added sklearns' tests

* moved best_score into the if statement

* improved docstrings; simplified LGBMCheckConsistentLength

* fixed typo

* pylint

* updated example

* fixed Ranker interface

* added missed boosting_type

* fixed more comfortable autocomplete without unused objects

* removed check for None of eval_at

* fixed according to review

* fixed typo

* added description of fit return type

* dictionary->dict for short

* markdown cleanup

* fixed capital letters and formating

* fixed CMake capital letters; added VS 2013 to the list of allowed versions

* expose feature importance to c_api

* support type=gain

* remove dump model from examples and tests temporarily because it's unstable

* use double instead of float