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Hands-On Gradient Boosting with XGBoost and scikit-learn

This practical XGBoost guide will put your Python and scikit-learn knowledge to work by showing you how to build powerful, fine-tuned XGBoost models with impressive speed and accuracy. This book will help you to apply XGBoost’s alternative base learners, use unique transformers for model deployment, discover tips from Kaggle masters, and much more!

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Difficulty Level

Intermediate

Completion Time

10h20m

Language

English

About Book

Who Is This Book For?

This book is for data science professionals and enthusiasts, data analysts, and developers who want to build fast and accurate machine learning models that scale with big data. Proficiency in Python, along with a basic understanding of linear algebra, will help you to get the most out of this book.

Book content

chapters 10h20m total length

Machine Learning Landscape

Decision Trees in Depth

Bagging with Random Forests

From Gradient Boosting to XGBoost

XGBoost Unveiled

XGBoost Hyperparameters

Discovering Exoplanets with XGBoost

XGBoost Alternative Base Learners

XGBoost Kaggle Masters

XGBoost Model Deployment

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