How to install xgboost in python on MacOS?

Question

I am a newbie and learning python. Can someone help me- how to install xgboost in python. Im using Mac 10.11. I read online and did the below mentioned step, but not able to

Answer 1

For a newbie learning python and Machine Learning on Mac, I would strongly recommand to install Anaconda first (install doc).

Anaconda is a freemium open source distribution of the Python and R programming languages for large-scale data processing, predictive analytics, and scientific computing, that aims to simplify package management and deployment.

If you installed Anaconda for Python 2.7, then you should have no troubles installing XGBoost with:

conda install -c aterrel xgboost=0.4.0

If you already have Anaconda installed and that your pip XGBoost installation failed, you should try:

conda remove xgboost
conda install -c aterrel xgboost=0.4.0