Hyperparameter tuning and #TidyTuesday food consumption

Last week I published a screencast demonstrating how to use the tidymodels framework and specifically the recipes package. Today, Im using this weeks #TidyTuesday dataset on food consumption around the world to show hyperparameter tuning!

Here is the code I used in the video, for those who prefer reading instead of or in addition to video.

Explore the data

Our modeling goal here is to predict which countries are Asian countries and which countries are not, based on their patterns of food...