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An article published on Medium in Toward Data Science: https://towardsdatascience.com/detect-parkinsons-with-10-lines-of-code-intro-to-xgboost-51a4bf76b2e6

was making the rounds on LinkedIn

This code replicates the example, which was in Python, in R

Note that due to random initialization, the accuracy varies run to run Running the code half a dozen times generates a solution over 96 percent accuracy