Data Preparation for Gradient Boosting with XGBoost in Python - Machine Learning Mastery

XGBoost is a popular implementation of Gradient Boosting because of its speed and performance. Internally, XGBoost models represent all problems as a regression predictive modeling problem that only takes numerical values as input. If your data is in a different form, it must be prepared into the expected format. In this post you will discover how to prepare your data for using with gradient boosting with the XGBoost library in Python. Data Preparation for Gradient Boosting with XGBoost in Python Photo by Ed Dunens, some rights reserved.