Tune an xgboost model with early stopping and #TidyTuesday childcare costs

Can we predict childcare costs in the US using an xgboost model? In this blog post, learn how to use early stopping for hyperparameter tuning.

Deploy a model on AWS SageMaker with vetiver

Learn how to train and deploy a model with R and vetiver on AWS SageMaker infrastructure.

Use OpenAI text embeddings with #TidyTuesday horror movie descriptions

High quality text embeddings are becoming more available from companies like OpenAI. Learn how to obtain them and then use them for text analysis.

Resampling to understand gender in #TidyTuesday art history data

Artists who are women are underrepresented in art history textbooks, and we can use resampling to robustly understand more about this imbalance.

To downsample imbalanced data or not, with #TidyTuesday bird feeders

Will squirrels will come eat from your bird feeder? Let’s fit a model both with and without downsampling to find out.