A few weeks ago, I wrapped up teaching tidymodels for the third time. We say third time’s the charm, right? Even during a global pandemic? I don’t know, but this time around was fun in new ways and hard in new ways, so I wanted to take the time to write some thoughts down about how it went.

But why?

Why teach tidymodels virtually? I’ve already taught it as a 2-day workshop at rstudio::conf(2020). I had already agreed to …