Riel St. Amand
Machine Learning Fundamentals

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Machine Learning Fundamentals

A four-hour, hands-on workshop at KCDC 2022 that takes a room with no background to building real models — terminology through neural nets, entirely in Colab.

  • talk
  • workshop
  • machine learning
  • scikit-learn
  • TensorFlow

A four-hour, hands-on workshop at KCDC 2022 that takes a room with no background from the vocabulary of machine learning to building models themselves, entirely in Google Colab so nobody fights an install.

It runs the full arc: the terms and problem types (and the traps, like overfitting and data leakage), data wrangling in pandas and NumPy, regression and then classification in scikit-learn with the metrics that tell you whether a model is any good, and a close on neural networks in TensorFlow and when they earn their keep. The datasets are real ones — car sales, heart disease — rather than toy arrays.

The materials are on GitHub.