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Model basics [model]

(Builds on: Setup)
(Leads to: Model EDA)

It’s hard to understand data just by looking at it in a tibble. Visualizations are one way to gain a better understanding of the relationships present in your data. Modeling is another approach.

We’re not going to rigorously cover the mathematical foundations of models. In this unit, we’ll only cover the intuition for how models approximate data, as well as how to conduct EDA when you know you’re eventually going to fit a model.

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