Boook club “Hands-On Machine Learning with R” - Chp13 Deep learning

Join us for our new online boookclub session discussing ‘Hands-On Machine Learning with R’ by Bradley Boehmke and Brandon Greenwell! In the first session of the new year, on Monday January 9, we will learn all about deep learning with neural networks!

Most machine learning models are shallow models: they only use a few layers of data transformations to reach the output representation. In contrast, deep learning uses many layers, where every additional layer creates a more elaborate representation. This results in complex models, for example used in image classification, speech recognition and autonomous driving.

Our presenter is Galin Bajlekov: a big fan of neural networks, long-time R user and R-Ladies supporter. He has a lot of experience with machine learning and data science, both in and outside of academia. Currently, he is a software engineer at Enso (https://enso.org).

This boook club:
For this boook club we - the Den Bosch and Utrecht chapters of R Ladies - are joining forces. We will alternate hosting the meetups. In +- 10 meetings (probably more :) ) , we will work through all the chapters in the book together. We are doing this boookclub, because we like to learn together. It is not the case presenters are the experts on the matter. To make this a group effort, the idea is that all participants take turns in presenting chapters, as for example Marianna presented chapter 6, and Elena chapter 7 and 8! We are of course available to help. If you’re not comfortable presenting, just listening is also okay.
If you cannot make it this time, feel free to join in on one of the subsequent meetings.

For who:

• People who want to take their first steps into machine learning
• Some prior knowledge on R programming will be helpful. As the authors of the book themselves mention: “This book is not meant to be an introduction to R or to programming in general; as we assume the reader has familiarity with the R language to include defining functions, managing R objects, controlling the flow of a program, and other basic tasks.”

What to expect:

• Presentations summarising the key points on each topic of the book
• Putting the theory to practice by going through exercises together
• Room to discuss questions and other thoughts

Whereabouts:

• Meet every 2 weeks via Zoom. The password will be sent to you via e-mail before the meeting.
• We meet every second Monday, from 7 - 8.30 pm
• It is not necessary to read the chapters in advance, but feel free to do so.

R-Ladies is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone. We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form. See the code of conduct.
The book can be found at https://bradleyboehmke.github.io/HOML/. It is also available in print. For the slides of our previous meetings, see https://github.com/rladiesnl/book_club_handsonML.