2020 US Presidential Candidate Election

Predicting the proportion of voters who favored the Democratic party in each county (>2.3k counties)

Link to Kaggle competition Leaderboard score: 4th place (out of 80 competitors)

High level explanation of technologies and tools used in this project:

1. tidymodels (parsnip, recipes, yardstick, tune, dials, workflowsets)
2. stacks
3. dplyr
4. ggplot2
5. ML models (cubist rule-based alg, xgboost, lightgbm, glm with elastic-net regularization, etc)