Chris Jarrett

Chris Jarrett is a system software engineer on the NVIDIA RAPIDS workflows team working on GPU-accelerated data science in the Python ecosystem. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Harvard University, where he focused on data science and AI.
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Data Science Feb 08, 2023

Categorical Features in XGBoost Without Manual Encoding

XGBoost is a decision-tree–based, ensemble machine learning algorithm based on gradient boosting. However, until recently, it didn’t natively support... 5 MIN READ