There are lots of articles out there talking about XGBoost and using it for models. And why shouldn't there be? It is a really powerful tool that has been proven to obtain great results in a wide variety of environments, favoring heterogeneous data. It has implementations in several languages, but in this article we are going to follow the trend of the previous ones and see the Python 3 implementation. The fancy name of the library comes from the algorithm used in it to train the model, but how does it work? Let's go backwards seeing what each word means.

In this article, we will take a look at the various aspects of the XGBoost library. XGBoost is one of the most reliable machine learning libraries when dealing with huge datasets. In my previous article, I gave a brief introduction about XGBoost on how to use it. This article will mainly aim towards exploring many of the useful features of XGBoost. When using machine learning libraries, it is not only about building state-of-the-art models.

Kaggle is an AirBnB for Data Scientists – this is where they spend their nights and weekends. It's a crowd-sourced platform to attract, nurture, train and challenge data scientists from all around the world to solve data science and predictive analytics problems through machine learning. It has over 536,000 active members from 194 countries and it receives close to 150,000 submissions per month. Started from Melbourne, Australia Kaggle moved to Silicon Valley in 2011, raised some 11 million dollars from the likes of Hal Varian (Chief Economist at Google), Max Levchin (Paypal), Index and Khosla Ventures and then ultimately been acquired by the Google in March of 2017. Kaggle is the number one stop for data science enthusiasts all around the world who compete for prizes and boost their Kaggle rankings.

Kaggle is an AirBnB for Data Scientists – this is where they spend their nights and weekends. It's a crowd-sourced platform to attract, nurture, train and challenge data scientists from all around the world to solve data science and predictive analytics problems through machine learning. It has over 536,000 active members from 194 countries and it receives close to 150,000 submissions per month. Started from Melbourne, Australia Kaggle moved to Silicon Valley in 2011, raised some 11 million dollars from the likes of Hal Varian (Chief Economist at Google), Max Levchin (Paypal), Index and Khosla Ventures and then ultimately been acquired by the Google in March of 2017. Kaggle is the number one stop for data science enthusiasts all around the world who compete for prizes and boost their Kaggle rankings.