Machine Learning from Distaster with Phil Trelford
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What: Phil Trelford has come all the way from London to take us on a machine learning adventure! All levels of experience welcome, from beginner to expert.
For this meetup, the goal is to use F# and sample data from Kaggle (http://kaggle.com/) to predict who lives and who dies on the Titanic!
To get the most from the session please try and bring a laptop along with F# installed.
• Install F# on Windows (http://fsharp.org/use/windows/)
• Install F# on OSX (http://fsharp.org/use/mac/)
• Install F# on Linux (http://fsharp.org/use/linux/)
Who: Phil Trelford is a Software Architect at an ISV supplying real-time electronic trading software. His career so far spans over 15 years, with experience in video games, leisure, retail and financial sectors.
Phil’s recent commercial development work has been with C++, C#, SQL, JavaScript, and includes over 2 years developing F# applications at Microsoft.
Phil is also a founding member of the F# Software Foundation (http://fsharp.org/foundation.html), whose mission is to promote, protect, and advance the F# programming language, and to support and facilitate the growth of a diverse and international community of F# programmers