National Coding Week: Introduction to Machine Learning at BT

National Coding Week (https://codingweek.org/?edition=GB) takes place on the 18th September and as part of it WWC Belfast are hosting an 'Introduction to Machine Learning' interactive workshop. The workshop will be a combination of slides and practical exercises and is aimed at beginners with no prior experience assumed. Nearer to the date a VM will be provided with instructions so no complex setup is required.

Machine learning is the science of getting computers to act without being explicitly programmed. Machine learning is part of our daily lives and is used to provide effective web search, fraud detection and speech recognition to give just a few examples.

Kelly Moore will be hosting. Kelly is a software engineer at Kainos and was one of the people who ran their AI camp. She has also pitched to speak at SXSW about 'Demystifying Machine Learning' (head across and vote (http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/75179) for her) so there is no better person for the job.

A big thanks to BT for providing us with a great space in which to hold the event.

Instructions and link to download the VM:

Download Virtual Box https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Download VM Image https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7Wm6IsK2T67QUxTQW4ta0FlZHM

Open Virtual Box -> File -> Import Appliance -> Select downloaded wwc.ova file

On Appliance settings page ensure Guest OS Type: Ubuntu and you can change CPU and RAM if you wish (currently 2 and 2048MB)

Click Import

Select the newly created vm and click Start. It should log in automatically with the following account: Username: wwc Password: password

The VM is setup with the following:·

Python 2.7 Environment - (Anaconda Recommended)·

Python Libraries installed:

• Jupiter Notebook

• Pandas

• Numpy

• SkLearn

• Matplotlib

Any issues please give us a shout on k.moore@kainos.com/h.campbell@kainos.com