Essential Machine Learning with Linear Models in RAPIDS: Part 1 of a Series

I want to take a moment to tell the origin story of regression analysis, which will explain why it has that name. I believe that of all the common machine learning techniques (K-means, kNN, PCA), "regression analysis" has the most opaque name. OLS regression was first invented to analyze exceptional genetic traits and their heritability. These early studies seemed to show the offspring of exceptional individuals "regressed to the mean". The inventor was Sir Francis Galton (half-cousin of Charles Darwin²), who had previously invented the standard deviation and first observed the "wisdom of the crowds" in certain estimation tasks. I am trying to predict daily demand for short-term bike rentals made in 2012, and I have data from 2011 to build the model.