Simplify Python getting started example #8153
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This PR aims to resolve issue #8146.
Current behavior:
The current Python getting started example requires the user to manually set the local file path to the Agaricus data set in libsvm format before being able to run the example code.
New behavior:
This PR leverages
sklearn
to load the data set. Hence, as long as the user hassklearn
installed, after apip install xgboost
, the user should be able to run the getting started example as is (reducing friction, especially for new users).Additional Details:
sklearn.datasets
.xgboost.XGBClassifier
class is used here rather than thexgboost.fit
function to train the model as the latter would require an extra step of converting formnumpy
arrays toxgboost.DMatrix
.