Book Club "Machine Learning with R" - Decision trees and Bagging

Have you heard about decision trees? And do you know the concept of "bagging". Join us for another meetup for the online boookclub discussing ‘Hands-On Machine Learning with R’ by Bradley Boehmke and Brandon Greenwell. On Monday November 21st, we discuss Chapters 9 and 10, ‘Decision Trees’ and 'Bagging'.

The chapter will be presented by Veerle van Son, one of the R-Ladies Den Bosch organizers! Veerle works as a data scientist at a university of applied sciences. She uses R and Rmarkdown (and soon Quarto?) for data wrangling, visualisation and reporting.

For this boook club we - the Den Bosch and Utrecht chapters of R Ladies - are joining forces. We will alternate hosting the meetups. In +- 10 meetings (maybe more :) ) , we will work through all the chapters in the book together. We are doing this book club, because we like to learn together. It is not the case presenters are the experts on the matter. To make this a group effort, the idea is that all participants take turns in presenting chapters. If you’re not comfortable presenting, just listening is also okay.

If you cannot make it this time, feel free to join in on one of the subsequent meetings.

For who:

• People who want to take their first steps into machine learning
• Some prior knowledge on R programming will be helpful. As the authors of the book themselves mention: “This book is not meant to be an introduction to R or to programming in general; as we assume the reader has familiarity with the R language to include defining functions, managing R objects, controlling the flow of a program, and other basic tasks.”

What to expect:

• Presentations summarising the key points on each topic of the book
• Putting the theory to practice by going through exercises together
• Room to discuss questions and other thoughts

Whereabouts:

• Meet every 2 weeks via Zoom. The password will be sent to you via e-mail before the meeting.
• We meet every second Monday, from 7 - 8.30 pm
• It is not necessary to read the chapters in advance, but feel free to do so.

R-Ladies is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone. We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form. See the code of conduct.
The book can be found at https://bradleyboehmke.github.io/HOML/. It is also available in print. For the slides of our previous meetings, see https://github.com/rladiesnl/book_club_handsonML.