Installing xgboost in Windows 10 for Python

Install dependencies

!pip install numpy scipy scikit-learn pandas

!pip install deap update_checker tqdm stopit

Install xgboost

C:\Users\KOGENTIX>git clone –recursive https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost

Download DLL from http://www.picnet.com.au/blogs/guido/post/2016/09/22/xgboost-windows-x64-binaries-for-download/

 

and put it in xgboost/python-package folder

C:\Users\KOGENTIX\xgboost>cd python-package

C:\Users\KOGENTIX\xgboost\python-package

Change Environment Variables so it finds xgboost dll