Tune xgboost models with early stopping to predict shelter animal status

This is the latest in my series of screencasts demonstrating how to use the tidymodels packages, from just getting started to tuning more complex models. I participated in this week���s episode of the SLICED playoffs, a competitive data science streaming show, where we competed to predict the status of shelter animals. ���� I used xgboost���s early stopping feature as I competed, so let���s walk through how and when to try that out!

Here is the code I used in the video, for those who pr...