Technical requirements
This chapter serves as a hands-on guide, offering practical insights and techniques for harnessing the predictive power of numerical and temporal variables. Through a blend of theoretical discourse and code demonstrations, you’ll gain proficiency in leveraging Python libraries to navigate the intricacies of data preprocessing. The code presented in this chapter is available in this book’s GitHub repository: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/XGBoost-for-Regression-Predictive-Modeling-and-Time-Series-Analysis.
This chapter relies on the following Python libraries, all of which should be installed before you proceed:
- pandas 1.4.2
- NumPy
- Matplotlib
- Seaborn
- SciPy