An Introduction to Machine Learning (Using Scikit-learn)

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Co-hosted by: CrowdFlower (https://www.meetup.com/RichData/events/235092917/) and Galvanize

About the Workshop:

Machine learning is rapidly becoming prevalent in products we use every day. Scikit-learn (http://scikit-learn.org/stable/) is a fantastic toolkit to get started on making real world models in Python. It’s powerful and very easy to deploy. The best part of Scikit-learn for those who aren’t very strong in mathematics is that no math background is necessary.

Lukas Biewald (https://twitter.com/l2k?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) and Nick Gaylord (https://twitter.com/texastacos) will jointly conduct this workshop. Lukas and Nick will cover the basic types of machine learning techniques, provide examples of real world applications and towards the end of the session, you will build some models together!

Agenda:

• 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.: Workshop

• 12 p.m. - 1 p.m.: Q&A, Pizza, Networking

Meet the Teachers:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/KXNnLJwFeemVBPus8o-qAr1mMsXANve5lwJm6OmaxDzciIPOwGvOdEAM34F6460sOzGDY_rRRwfP_JUSY-A38P9nF-AFKcoIaWMdH1dXP5OBTpn5vbMUVUpjyMzux1JV4Qh31nIj Lukas is Chief Data Scientist and Founder of CrowdFlower. He has worked as a Senior Scientist and Manager within the Ranking and Management Team at Powerset, Inc., a natural language search technology company later acquired by Microsoft, and also led the Search Relevance Team for Yahoo! Japan. He graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. in Math and an M.S. in Computer Science. For more information about Lukas, please visit his LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lbiewald) profile, or follow him on Twitter (https://twitter.com/l2k).

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_IHes_MDdmMVrfUSCSc0Yt0ZwtnQjHLLKJAnG8gYRE-5p6ABvCa1cGEMofIRduRopcBUxzhC5nnuYRGiHDHECHfv-S1kuiOTjMzPog49x-FMBixCUamU5jbmcWdDxgpQuEne8VPL Nick is CrowdFlower's Senior Data Scientist, where he primarily works on our machine learning offering, CrowdFlower AI. Prior to CrowdFlower, Nick was a data scientist at SF text analytics startup Idibon. He has a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin, where his research focused on human language comprehension and the construction of datasets for NLP applications. For more information about Nick, please visit his LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-gaylord-9b702631) profile, or follow him on Twitter (https://twitter.com/texastacos).

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