Posit’s recently-announced project orbital translates fitted SciKitLearn pipelines to SQL for easy prediction scoring at scale. This project has many exciting applications to deploy models for batch prediction with near-zero dependencies or custom infrastructure and have scores accessible to operatilize from their data warehouse. As soon as I heard about the project, I was eager to test it out. However, much of my recent work is in pure xgboost and neither xgboost’s learning API nor the s...
