What does "exaggeration" mean in the context of Boosting? I am learning boosting, the machine learning ensemble meta-algorithm. The professor is grouping 3 weak classifiers into an ensemble and said that before this time point it is easy to understand. Take a dataset, train a simple model, find the smallest error rate, something like this. This idea is easy to implement, for instance, gradient descent would take logistic regression to the smallest error rate. Then, the professor talked about the data with an exaggeration of classifier errors.

My question: What does that mean? Can anyone give a sample for this operation based on an open dataset in Python or R?
Not sure, but "exaggeration" could be an other way to talk about "overfitting". 

Boosting are sequential model: each time you build a new tree, it will use the results of the precedent ones, and focus on residuals (where the precedent trees dont perform well). For this, the model exagerate the weights of the precedent mistakes.

If you build too much trees, the last ones will learn on noise, because 
residuals will contains much noise than information. You will have an excellent error rate ("exaggerated error rates") for your train dataset, but if you apply your model on a new dataset, the error will be lower.