Async masterclass · 75 min · Available now · Modeling & Inference

What Fills the Seats

Ridge, lasso, elastic net

After this you can fit ridge, lasso and elastic net on the same data, tune them honestly, and pick the one that generalizes.

Fit ridge, lasso and elastic net against the same MLB attendance data, tune the penalty by cross-validation, and read which predictors survive it.

What Fills the Seats
$79
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Buy once, watch any time.

  • The full recording, 75 min
  • Yours to keep: watch it any time

Masterclass subscribers get every live session for a year and keep every session that is recorded. Everyone else can buy a recording on its own.

Who teaches it

Taught by someone who does this work.

Greg Matthews
Greg MatthewsPhD · Director, Center for Data Science and Consulting, Loyola University

Builds statistical models on sports data.

What you get

What is yours when you buy.

  • The full recording, 75 min
  • Yours to keep: watch it any time
What you will build

The thing you walk away with.

  • Ridge, lasso, and elastic net models fit and compared on the same data
  • A workflow for tuning the regularization strength with cross-validation
  • A reusable function that picks the model that generalizes best
Curriculum

What is covered, in order.

  1. What regularization does and why it beats plain regression on real data
  2. The difference between ridge, lasso, and elastic net, in code and intuition
  3. How lasso performs feature selection for you
  4. How to choose the penalty with cross-validation instead of by hand
Questions

The four that actually stop a purchase.

Is this too advanced, or too basic, for me?

Built for someone who already writes code in the session's language and wants the method, not the syntax. If the outcome line at the top reads like something you could use next week, it is pitched right. If it reads like a different job, start with the courses on /browse.

What exactly do I get, and for how long?

The full recording, yours to keep: buy once, watch any time. Masterclass subscribers get every live session for a year and keep every session that is recorded. Everyone else can buy a recording on its own.

Do I need to install anything?

No. The recording plays in the browser.

What if it is not for me?

Twenty minutes on a call before you buy costs nothing, and the call is the fastest way to tell. If you bought it and it is the wrong one for you, email michael@athlyticz.com and a person will answer.

What Fills the Seats

After this you can fit ridge, lasso and elastic net on the same data, tune them honestly, and pick the one that generalizes.

Buy now
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