{"id":1993,"date":"2021-04-11T22:25:52","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T22:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/?p=1993"},"modified":"2021-04-12T13:07:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T13:07:23","slug":"tidyx-56-xgboost-for-pitchf-x-classification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/tidyx-56-xgboost-for-pitchf-x-classification\/","title":{"rendered":"TidyX 56: XGBoost for pitchf\/x classification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Building on the previous weeks, <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ellis_hughes\">Ellis Hughes<\/a><\/span><\/strong> and I work on pitchf\/x classification using the popular XGBoost algorithm.<\/p>\n<p>We discuss:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The basics of XGBoost<\/li>\n<li>Training an XGBoost model<\/li>\n<li>Evaluating the variables of importance within the model<\/li>\n<li>Tuning model parameters of an XGBoost model using the {<strong>caret<\/strong>} package<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To watch our screen cast, <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=avesIMF5UVg\">CLICK HERE<\/a><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>To access our code, <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/thebioengineer\/TidyX\/tree\/master\/TidyTuesday_Explained\/056-MLB_pitch_classification_4\">CLICK HERE<\/a><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>For previous episodes in this classification series:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/tidyx-53-mlb-pitch-classification-series-eda-hierarchical-clustering\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Episode 53: Pitch Classification &amp; EDA<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/tidyx-54-mlb-pitch-classification-series-knn-umap\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Episode 54: KNN &amp; UMAP<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/tidyx-55-decision-trees-random-forest-optimization\/\">Episode 55: Decision Trees, Random Forest, &amp; Optimization<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building on the previous weeks, Ellis Hughes and I work on pitchf\/x classification using the popular XGBoost algorithm. We discuss: The basics of XGBoost Training an XGBoost model Evaluating the variables of importance within the model Tuning model parameters of an XGBoost model using the {caret} package To watch our screen cast, CLICK HERE. To [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tidyx-screen-cast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1993"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1995,"href":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions\/1995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}