Suggestion: Add an appendix B for "putting it all together"

[jmgirard]

I have had the experience (and have heard from a few others that they had the same) of wishing the book had a single easy-to-find-and-reference section that includes one (or ideally several different) entire example with a workflow (recipe and model), resampling, tuning, evaluation, comparison, and application to new data. Reading the chapters sequentially does a nice job of building in complexity and adding different parts of the tidymodels ecosystem. But when I want to come back later for a reference, it is really hard and annoying to find a complete example. I suggest/request putting something like this in Appendix B and calling it something like "Putting it all together" with several examples of annotated code and maybe even interpretation. This would be a chance to show the whole thing in a more deployed (as opposed to pedagogical) setting. I think that {usemodels} does a decent job of helping get parts of the syntax down, but it doesn't include all steps in the process and doesn't include example interpretation.

[juliasilge]

Thank for this suggestion @jmgirard! 🙌

The book is currently in production so we will not plan to have this for the first edition, but we can look into adding such an appendix after publication, for the online version. In the meantime, if you are looking for beginning-to-end modeling analysis examples, I would point you to:

• https://www.tidymodels.org/start/tuning/
• https://www.tidymodels.org/start/case-study/
• the .Rmd template in the tidymodels metapackage