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Extreme Gradient Boosting with XGBoost

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35 reviews
Updated 03/2025
Learn the fundamentals of gradient boosting and build state-of-the-art machine learning models using XGBoost to solve classification and regression problems.
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Do you know the basics of supervised learning and want to use state-of-the-art models on real-world datasets? Gradient boosting is currently one of the most popular techniques for efficient modeling of tabular datasets of all sizes. XGboost is a very fast, scalable implementation of gradient boosting, with models using XGBoost regularly winning online data science competitions and being used at scale across different industries. In this course, you'll learn how to use this powerful library alongside pandas and scikit-learn to build and tune supervised learning models. You'll work with real-world datasets to solve classification and regression problems.

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Supervised Learning with scikit-learn
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Classification with XGBoost

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Regression with XGBoost

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Fine-tuning your XGBoost model

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Using XGBoost in pipelines

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  • Kevin H.
    about 2 months

    Very good course, the instructor was clear and very good at explaining the content

  • Li D.
    2 months

    The course is for exploring machine learning. The instructor provides clear explanations which help with learning. Highly recommended!

  • Orlando R.
    6 months

    Excellent instructor. He explains a lot of difficult concepts with ease. The examples were great so as the exercises. Highly recommended.

  • Thomas M.
    about 1 year

    Exzellent!

  • Louis B.
    about 1 year

    Good coverage of an important topic.

"Very good course, the instructor was clear and very good at explaining the content"

Kevin H.

"The course is for exploring machine learning. The instructor provides clear explanations which help with learning. Highly recommended!"

Li D.

"Excellent instructor. He explains a lot of difficult concepts with ease. The examples were great so as the exercises. Highly recommended."

Orlando R.

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