Introduction to Machine Learning (co-hosted w/ Women in Kaggle Philly!)

This meetup will be an interactive introduction to Machine Learning, co-hosted by R-Ladies Philadelphia and Women in Kaggle Philly. There will be a lightning talk demystifying ML, followed by a hands-on application of ML techniques in R as we work together on a past Kaggle competition!

What is Machine Learning?
ML is the science of getting computers to learn from data without explicit programming. ML has led to advances in speech recognition, tumor identification, self-driving cars, and many other arenas. You probably interact with ML every day!

What is Kaggle?
Kaggle is an data science and machine learning online community. Kaggle is famous for hosting machine learning competitions, but it also offers a public data platform, a cloud-based workbench, and educational resources for AI education. Users can find or publish interesting data sets, explore and build models, collaborate with other data scientists, and enter competitions.

Important information:
-- A photo ID is required to enter WeWork at 1601 Market. Student ID is fine
-- Bring your laptop to participate
-- Please register for a Kaggle account before the meetup (www.kaggle.com)

Agenda:
6:00-6:15: Meet and greet
6:15-6:40: Lightning talk about ML by Tamera Lanham (Data Scientist at Elsevier)
6:40-6:50: Introduction to Kaggle by Ran Liu (Women in Kaggle Philly organiser & PhD Candidate in Sociology at Penn)
6:45-8:00: Group work on "House Prices" Kaggle competition (www.kaggle.com/ranliu/r-ladies-philly-intro-to-machine-learning-meetup)

About WeWork:
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