Caret – Hutsons-hacks

TidyModels or CARET – how they compare?

R BlogsGary Hutson07/10/2021

People have been telling me not to teach caret anymore, albeit I do teach TidyModels as well. Their argument is that TidyModels is new and shiny and we should be using the most up to date tools. I get this justification, but is caret really dead? My answer is “not by a long shot!“. Hats…

Crash Course in R Model Deployment with Docker and friends

R BlogsGary Hutson01/10/20210

I have put together a complete guide to model training, docker file creation and then consuming your API in R. This has arisen as part of a workshop the NHS-R community are doing around R in Production: show and tell, but instead of just making it local, I thought I would open up my part…

R BlogsGary Hutson25/05/20210

Build and improve a Machine Learning Classification model with TidyModels and R

These set of tutorial arose through my desire to use as many machine learning packages as possible. My favourites still remain…

R BlogsGary Hutson14/05/20210

Deploying trained CARET Machine Learning Model with Docker and Plumber

I have been busy learning Docker, as it was one of those things I have been putting off for a while.…

R BlogsGary Hutson18/02/20210

ConfusionTableR – a package to tidy outputs of confusion matrix objects for storage in databases and row level structures

I am really excited to announce my beta package and it is now available to download on GitHub. This is my…