Should I Really Eat That Mushroom? | Towards Data Science

Most educational and real-world datasets contain categorical features. Today we will cover gradient boosted decision trees from the CatBoost library, which provides native support for categorical d...

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Should I Really Eat That Mushroom? | Towards Data Science

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Most educational and real-world datasets contain categorical features. Today we will cover gradient boosted decision trees from the CatBoost library, which provides native support for categorical data. We will use a dataset of mushrooms that are either edible or poisonous. The mushrooms are described by categorical features such as their color, odor, and shape, and […]