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This study compared Ordinary Kriging (OK), Inverse Distance Weighting (IDW), and ML algorithms in predicting and spatializing soil attributes, while also evaluating prediction uncertainty and computational processing time. Conducted in Minas Gerais State (Brazil), the analysis used Euclidean distance based predictors derived from X-Y coordinates and regular grids with 5, 7, and 10 divisions. Soil attribute maps (CEC, phosphorus, sand, and clay) were generated using OK, IDW, Random Forest (RF), Cubist, Support Vector Machine (SVM), and Earth. Model performance was assessed using R\n                    <jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\n                    , RMSE, MAE, and the coefficient of variation. 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