XGBoost

NCAA Basketball Analysis Part 7 - Regression and Classification with XGBoost

Introduction So up to this point, we pulled down some college basketball data, feature engineered the heck out of it, and used keras to predict wins/losses as well as predicting the point differential. In this post, I will show the implimentation of the xgboost algorithm for both a regression and a classification task, the same tasks that we tackled in the last two posts. Here are links to the other posts in this series if you need reference.