Gradient Boosting Courses and Certifications

Introduction to Machine Learning with Gradient Boosting Models

Build and refine a Gradient Boosting Regressor to forecast Tesla stock price changes using cross-validation, GridSearchCV, feature importance, and early stopping.

• CodeSignal
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Foundations of Gradient Boosting

Build and tune gradient boosting models by progressing from decision trees through ensembles, monitoring learning, comparing approaches, and analyzing feature importance.

• CodeSignal
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Career Certificate

Mastering Gradient Boosting with XGBoost & LightGBM

Learn to build, tune, and interpret gradient-boosting classifiers with scikit-learn, XGBoost, LightGBM, and CatBoost.

• CodeSignal
• 3 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate
• 3 courses

Conf42

Stop Failures Before They Happen - Gradient Boosting for Workflow Risk Prediction

Discover how to predict and prevent workflow failures using gradient boosting with CatBoost, SHAP explanations, and Prefect for early signal detection in ML pipelines.

• YouTube
• 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

LightGBM Made Simple

Explore LightGBM’s leaf-wise growth, histogram algorithms, categorical handling, and parameter tuning through hands-on experiments.

• CodeSignal
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Extreme Gradient Boosting with XGBoost

273 ratings at DataCamp

Do you know the basics of supervised learning and want to use state-of-the-art models on real-world datasets?

• DataCamp
• 4 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Gradient Boost

Explains gradient boosting for regression and classification, covering core ideas and technical details in four lessons.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

StatQuest with Josh Starmer

Gradient Boost Part 2 - Regression Details

A step-by-step walkthrough of the Gradient Boost algorithm for regression, covering loss functions, residuals, regression trees, leaf outputs, and iterative predictions.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Ensemble Methods in Python

424 ratings at DataCamp

Continue your machine learning journey by diving into the wonderful world of ensemble learning methods!

• DataCamp
• 4 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Career Certificate

Intro to Machine Learning in Trading with $TSLA

234 ratings at CodeSignal

Prepare Tesla stock data in Pandas, use technical indicators, and build gradient boosting models for machine-learning-based trading analysis.

• CodeSignal
• 6 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate
• 4 courses

Ensembles in Machine Learning

Explore bagging, random forests, AdaBoost, gradient boosting, and stacking through hands-on classifier training, evaluation, and tuning.

• CodeSignal
• 3 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Coursera

Nail Regression & Classification

Build and diagnose multiple linear regression models, apply logistic regression and gradient boosting, handle class imbalance with SMOTE, and compare models using F1-score.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Board Infinity

Mastering Tabular ML: Feature Engineering to Production

Build a ride-hailing dynamic pricing engine: engineer 150+ features with Featuretools, master XGBoost and LightGBM internals, tune with Optuna, stack ensembles, and deploy via FastAPI.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

XGBoost

Learn XGBoost through regression, classification, mathematical details, optimizations, and an end-to-end Python implementation.

• YouTube
• 2 hours 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Decision Trees and Ensemble Methods

Learn how decision trees evolve into ensemble models through CART, bagging, random forests, boosting, and implementations with scikit-learn, XGBoost, LightGBM, and CatBoost.

• YouTube
• 2 hours 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video