predictive analysis lesson

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Outline

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Predictive modeling

Data

Data cleaning & prep

Model fitting

Model comparison

Predicting new samples

Quick forecasting demo

• https://facebook.github.io/prophet/
• https://research.fb.com/prophet-forecasting-at-scale/

[stephenturner]

see also chris wiggin's slides from datapalooza https://www.slideshare.net/chrishwiggins/data-science-nyt-inaugural-data-science-initiative-lecture/63-learnings_predictive_modeling_descriptive_modeling

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may be useful

Teaching data science fundamentals through realistic synthetic clinical cardiovascular data | bioRxiv
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/12/12/232611

laderast/cvdRiskData: Cardiovascular Risk Dataset and Data generation script
https://github.com/laderast/cvdRiskData

Shiny EDA Explorer
https://tladeras.shinyapps.io/cvdnight1/

[stephenturner]

Elder research article on RF:

https://www.elderresearch.com/company/blog/modeling-with-random-forests

Also, https://veterinaryresearch.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13567-015-0219-7