Brute force is simple, but elegance can be taught.

Completing the “Modeling Car Insurance Claim Outcomes” project as part of DataCamp’s “Associate Data Scientist in R” career track has been the most humbling element of the program for me.

The project was intended to be completed between the two courses on Regression, but I felt it would be better for me to wait until I had completed both to work on the project.

Why? Because it had been my experience that there are nuances to be learned from the repetitive nature of the coding exercises, and those nuances had come into play in the previous “projects”.

I’ve been taking pretty extensive notes (and screen captures) from the course materials and the coding exercises.

For now, I simply use them as reference materials while completing the exercises and the assessments. But, once I have completed the track, I intend to compile and coalesce them as “crib notes” for any future R coding that I might do.

Regardless, I’m caught up, now. So, it’s off to “Hypothesis Testing in R”!