The aim of this exercise is to predict the supply of physicians in the US, measured as rate of physicians per 100k inhabitants at the US county-level, based on socio-demographic variables and then compare the performance of a linear regression versus lasso regression.
The main notebooks, with all the code, are in the src folder. The notebook 'Expl-Data-Analysis' contains the exploratory data analysis. The notebook 'OLS-&-Lasso-Regress' contains all the model estimations and performance evaluation