Chapter 4: But what do the nuns think?

The last case study in this course uses an extensive survey of Catholic nuns fielded in 1967 to once more put your practical machine learning skills to use. You will predict the age of these religious women from their responses about their beliefs and attitudes.

1Surveying Catholic sisters in 1967

2Choosing an appropriate model

3Visualizing the age distribution

4Tidying the survey data

5Exploratory data analysis with tidy data

6Visualizing agreement with age

7Building a simple linear model

8Training, validation, and testing data

9Using your validation set

10Predicting age with supervised machine learning

11Training, validation, and testing data

12Making predictions

13Choosing between models

14Estimating uncertainty for new data

15Wrapping up