What’s next?

This quick start chapter got you started with XGBoost and taught you how to build a classification model. If you’re interested in building prediction models with XGBoost, in Chapter 4, you’ll build from this quick start and create and test a predicter model. If you’re interested in how XGBoost trains models and what makes XGBoost better than other gradient-boosted tree algorithms, see Chapter 3. Chapter 9 covers using XGBoost on time series data.