https://datasciencela.github.io/tag/xgboost/Recent content in xgboost on DataScience.LAHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usDataScience.LA, 2014–2021 · Read-only archive: comments are closed.Thu, 13 Oct 2022 00:02:42 -0700https://datasciencela.github.io/xgboost-a-scalable-tree-boosting-system/Thu, 19 May 2016 10:06:17 -0700https://datasciencela.github.io/xgboost-a-scalable-tree-boosting-system/<p><strong>XGBoost</strong> is a fantastic open source implementation of Gradient Boosting Machines, one of the most accurate general purpose supervised learning algorithms. With interfaces from both R and Python among others, it has become a favorite tool in Kaggle competitions, and it&rsquo;s also widely used in real-world applications. In this meetup we&rsquo;ll have a talk from the best person on the topic,<strong>Tianqi Chen, main author of XGBoost.</strong></p>