XGBoost: Predicting Life Expectancy with Supervised Learning

XGBoost: Predicting Life Expectancy with Supervised Learning

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https://towardsdatascience.com/xgboost-predicting-life-expectancy-with-supervised-learning-1f61e0222f5f

A beautiful forest. So random! Source: PixabayToday we’ll use XGBoost Boosted Trees for regression over an official HDI dataset. Who said Supervised Learning was all about classification?

XGBoost is a Python framework that allows us to train Boosted Trees exploiting multicore parallelism. It is also available in R, though we won’t be covering that here.