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CCASA is hosting our first in-person luncheon since March 2020

2023 September Luncheon

Improving Predictive Performance with Extreme Gradient Boosting

Date: Thursday, Sepp 21, 2023

Time: 12PM - 2:00PM Central

Location: East Bank Club 500 N Kingsbury St, Chicago, IL 60654

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Summary:

High dimensional data analysis for predictive modeling is both challenging and valuable. A recent extension of the gradient boosting approach, Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost), shows great promise in this area as demonstrated by its success in numerous Kaggle competitions. This presentation will outline XGBoost and illustrate its use in the development of a predictive model applied to customer database scoring. 

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    Chicago Chapter of the ASA is now accepting applications for speakers for the 2023-2024 season! Apply here