TidyModels or CARET – how they compare?

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…

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ConfusionTableR has made it to CRAN

In my dusty GitHub repository, sitting there, was a gem of a tool for tidying the outputs of a machine learning classification model into a record and row-level view for storage in databases. It has taken me time to get this to CRAN, as the dreaded closure, not subsettable, plagues me on the CRAN checks…

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