LASSO regression using tidymodels and #TidyTuesday data for The Office

I���ve been publishing screencasts demonstrating how to use the tidymodels framework, from first steps in modeling to how to tune more complex models. Today, I���m using this week���s #TidyTuesday dataset on The Office to show how to build a LASSO regression model and choose regularization parameters!

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

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