Chapter 4: But what do the nuns think?

The last case study in this course uses an extensive survey of Catholic nuns fielded in 1967 to once more put your practical machine learning skills to use. You will predict the age of these religious women from their responses about their beliefs and attitudes.

1Surveying Catholic sisters in 1967

2Choose an appropriate model

3Visualize the age distribution

4Tidy the survey data

5Exploratory data analysis with tidy data

6Visualize agreement with age

7Training, validation, and testing data

8Using your validation set

9Tune model hyperparameters

10Identify tuning parameters

11Create a tuning grid

12Time to tune

13Visualize tuning results

14Find the best parameters

15Use the testing data

16Wrapping up