PyMalta: First Steps towards Machine Learning (Part 1)
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🎉 The Python Malta community is happy to announce our next meetup event 🎉!
This will be the first part of a 2 part series, where we will introduce Machine Learning using Scikit-Learn. By the end, you should be able to build a machine learning model and make a prediction on our toy dataset.
• Location
This meetup is graciously sponsored by a new sponsor! Binary.com (https://www.binary.com/) who will be hosting us at their office in Birkirkara.
• Agenda
7:00 pm: Meet at the venue, chatting/networking
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm: First Steps towards Machine Learning (Part 1) - Christopher Zerafa
9:30 pm+: Optional post meetup drinks
• The Talk
In this first session, I will give an introduction to Machine Learning, the different types of problems we try to solve and how to use the very powerful Scikit-Learn as the workhorse for most of our ML applications. In particular, I will be picking up on Supervised Binary Classification for this session.
I will introduce the metrics we try to optimize and the why and how we do Feature Engineering. I will then dive into our first ML model - Decision Trees.
I will go over the fundamentals, some basic mathematics, which hyper parameters we should optimize and why this model works in certain situation as opposed to others. To finish off, we will be doing a tutorial where you will be able to try out the stuff in the previous sections.
This will be a tutorial style meetup, not a lecture. I will be coding up some components as I go along and you can try this stuff on your own.
• Prerequisites:
- Your laptops
- Installed version of Anaconda (https://www.anaconda.com/) for Python 3.7
• your_talk.py
PyMalta wishes to empower and encourage its user base to present talks at meetups, regardless of their level of experience. your_talk.py is an initiative to allow talk submissions. You can submit an outline of your talk at the link below:
https://forms.gle/azmvkzRHbH99KHix7
We look forward to your talk submissions and to seeing you all again on the day!
All the best,
The PyMalta organisers