Forecasting Stock Prices using XGBoost (Part 1/5)

A Step-By-Step Walk-Through

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There are many machine learning techniques in the wild, but extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) is one of the most popular. Gradient boosting is a process to convert weak learners to strong learners, in an iterative fashion. The name XGBoost refers to the engineering goal to push the limit of computational resources for boosted tree…