RPysoc Conference 2024 To Explain or Predict: how different modelling objectives change how you use the same tools This is a repository for my talk at RPysoc Conference 2024. It leans heavily on the work of Professor Galit Smuelli, and her paper of the same name: Shmueli, G. (2010), To Explain or To Predict?, Statistical Science, vol 25 no 3, pp. 289-310. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41058949