Section 3: Advanced XGBoost
Building advanced XGBoost models takes practice, analysis, and experimentation. In this section, you will experiment with and fine-tune alternative base learners, learn innovative tips and tricks from Kaggle masters—including stacking and advanced feature engineering—and practice building robust models ready for industry deployment using sparse matrices, customized transformers, and pipelines.
This section comprises the following chapters:
Chapter 8, XGBoost Alternative Base Learners
Chapter 9, XGBoost Kaggle Masters
Chapter 10, XGBoost Model Deployment
