Read chapter 2 of “An Introduction to Statistical Learning”. This is a big picture chapter that lays the foundation of the rest of the book. It is not expected to have read this before class.
Chapter 1 serves as an introduction to the book, data, and notation. Can be read or skimmed through if you want.
We will be using R which can be downloaded here. Additionally, it is also advised to use RStudio which can be downloaded here, but any IDE will work.
We will be using the tidymodels ecosystem of packages designed for modeling. If you haven’t already you should install these packages along with tidyverse.