Chapter 3: Get out the vote

In the third case study, you will use data on attitudes and beliefs in the United States to predict voter turnout. You will apply your skills in dealing with imbalanced data and explore more resampling options.

1Predicting voter turnout from survey data

2Choose an appropriate model

3Explore the VOTER data

4Visualization for exploratory data analysis

5Imbalanced data

6Training and testing data

7VOTE 2016

8Preprocess with a recipe

9Create a modeling workflow

10Cross-validation

11Understanding cross-validation

12Create cross-validation folds

13Evaluate model performance

14Resampling two models

15Performance metrics from resampling

16Which model is best?

17Back to the testing data