What’s New in Tidymodels? with Max Kuhn - nyhackr August Meetup

Visit https://www.nyhackr.org to learn more and follow https://x.com/nyhackr Talk Title- What’s New in Tidymodels? Talk Description- A lot! I’ll discuss updates to tidymodels related to: postprocessing, sparse data, multiparameter optimization, parallel processing, mirai, catboost, quantile regression, ordinal data, AI, and two new packages.  Bio- Max Kuhn is a Scientist at Posit, PBC (nee RStudio). He is working on improving R’s modeling capabilities and maintaining about 30 packages, including caret. He was a Senior Director of Nonclinical Statistics at Pfizer Global R&D in Connecticut. He has been applying models in the pharmaceutical and diagnostic industries for over 18 years. Max has a Ph.D. in Biostatistics. He and Kjell Johnson wrote the book Applied Predictive Modeling, which won the Ziegel award from the American Statistical Association, which recognizes the best book reviewed in Technometrics in 2015. He has co-written several other books: Feature Engineering and Selection, Tidy Models with R, and Applied Machine Learning for Tabular Data (in process).