The Glory of XGBoost

There are so many machine learning algorithms out there, how do you choose the best one for your problem? This question is going to have a different response based on the application and the data. Is it classification, regression, supervised, unsupervised, natural language processing, time series? There are so many avenues to take but in this article I am going to focus on on algorithm that I particularly find very interesting, XGBoost. XGBoost stands for extreme gradient boosting and is an open source library that provides an efficient and effective implementation of gradient boosting.