# Any xgbooster here? **URL:** \ **Category:** Senior Data Science: Safe Aging with SPHERE\ **Created:** [July 27, 2016, 7:54am UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/any-xgbooster-here/729 "2016-07-27T07:54:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sonam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5fc32e/32.png) [@sonam](https://community.drivendata.org/u/sonam)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2016, 7:54am UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/any-xgbooster-here/729/1 "2016-07-27T07:54:56Z")
anyone using xgboost or wanna team up ? ---
**Author:** ![anuj\_saini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8491ac/32.png) [@anuj\_saini](https://community.drivendata.org/u/anuj_saini)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2016, 8:37am UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/any-xgbooster-here/729/2 "2016-07-27T08:37:29Z")
I have used xgboost. Also looking for teammate. please reach out to me at [anuj.saini.mca@gmail.com](mailto:anuj.saini.mca@gmail.com) ---
**Author:** ![sonam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5fc32e/32.png) [@sonam](https://community.drivendata.org/u/sonam)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2016, 8:49am UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/any-xgbooster-here/729/3 "2016-07-27T08:49:07Z")
what us your current LB ? ---
**Author:** ![anuj\_saini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8491ac/32.png) [@anuj\_saini](https://community.drivendata.org/u/anuj_saini)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2016, 8:50am UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/any-xgbooster-here/729/4 "2016-07-27T08:50:02Z")
havnt submitted here till now. i m mostly engaged on other competitions. but will be interested to do it here ---
**Author:** ![sonam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5fc32e/32.png) [@sonam](https://community.drivendata.org/u/sonam)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2016, 8:57am UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/any-xgbooster-here/729/5 "2016-07-27T08:57:00Z")
Hi Anuj, I am interested in somebody having already a good LB position (top 10?) to improve collective score. I have used xgboost but couldn’t get better than 0.17-0.18 score. Thats why need somebody with different feature set /ensembles. ---
**Author:** ![anuj\_saini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8491ac/32.png) [@anuj\_saini](https://community.drivendata.org/u/anuj_saini)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2016, 8:58am UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/any-xgbooster-here/729/6 "2016-07-27T08:58:32Z")
whats your LB rank now ---
**Author:** ![sonam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5fc32e/32.png) [@sonam](https://community.drivendata.org/u/sonam)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2016, 8:59am UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/any-xgbooster-here/729/7 "2016-07-27T08:59:50Z")
Right, now 6. with LB score 0.1558. Not able to break this plateu ---
**Author:** ![anuj\_saini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8491ac/32.png) [@anuj\_saini](https://community.drivendata.org/u/anuj_saini)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2016, 9:00am UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/any-xgbooster-here/729/8 "2016-07-27T09:00:39Z")
are you using python or r ---
**Author:** ![sonam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5fc32e/32.png) [@sonam](https://community.drivendata.org/u/sonam)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2016, 9:01am UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/any-xgbooster-here/729/9 "2016-07-27T09:01:37Z")
Python. Lets do it on msgs. ---
**Author:** ![anuj\_saini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8491ac/32.png) [@anuj\_saini](https://community.drivendata.org/u/anuj_saini)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2016, 9:04am UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/any-xgbooster-here/729/10 "2016-07-27T09:04:10Z")
alright sure …