Installing Catboost

To install Catboost on Google Colab, you can use the !pip command to install the package from PyPI (the Python Package Index).

Start a new Colab notebook and make sure that you are using a Python 3 runtime.

Run the following command to install Catboost:

This will install the latest version of Catboost.

Once the installation is complete, you can import Catboost in your Python code by running:

You can then use Catboost's API to build, train, and evaluate machine learning models in your Colab notebook.

For example, to train a Catboost model on a classification dataset, you can use the following code:

I hope this helps!