Tidymodels and machine learning
The {tidymodels} concept (Kuhn and Silge 2022) is a group of packages in support of modeling and machine learning. In the last section we learned how to manipulate a basic linear model though a combination of the base-R lm() function and the tidyverse {broom} package along with the nest() function. However, modeling can be much more involved. This basic overview introduces tidymodels, a conceptual approach to integrating tidyverse principles with modeling, machine learning, feature selection and tuning.
Beyond the core of integrating machine learning and modeling with the tidyverse, tidymodels supports a variety of useful analytical and computational approaches. A short list of examples includes statistical analysis (e.g. bootstrapping, hypothesis testing, k-means clustering, logistic regression, etc.), robust modeling (e.g. classification, least squares, resampling), creating performance metrics, tuning, clustering, classification, text analysis, neural networks, and more.
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Modelers and ML coders can approach tidymodels by
Engaging with the five-step tutorial (build a model, use recipes to pre-process data, evaluate with resampling, tune, and predict.
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