Online
January 30 - February 02, 2023
9:00 - 13:00 CET
Instructors: Sven van der Burg, Cunliang Geng
Helpers: Barbara Vreede, Olga Lyashevska, Dani Bodor
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The eScience Center offers a range of free workshops and training courses, open to all researchers affiliated with Dutch research organizations. We organize workshops covering digital skills needed to put reproducible research into practice. These include online collaboration, reproducible code and good programming practices. We also offer more advanced workshops such as GPU Programming, Parallel Programming and Deep Learning.
This hands-on workshop will provide you with the basics of machine learning using Python.
Machine learning is the field devoted to methods and algorithms that ‘learn’ from data. It can be applied to a vast range of different domains, from linguistics to physics and from medical imaging to history.
This workshop aims to cover the basics of machine learning in a practical and hands-on manner, so that upon completion, you will be able to train your first machine learning models and understand what next steps to take to improve them.
We start with processing the data so that it is suitable for machine learning. Then we learn how to fit a model to the data using scikit-learn. We learn how to select the best model, learn about different machine learning models, and discuss some of the best practices when starting your own machine learning project.
The course aims to be accessible without a strong technical background. The requirements for this course are:
Where: This training will take place online. The instructors will provide you with the information you will need to connect to this meeting.
When: January 30 - February 02, 2023, 9:00 - 13:00 CET.
Requirements: Participants must have access to a computer with a Mac, Linux, or Windows operating system (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc.) that they have administrative privileges on. They should have a few specific software packages installed (listed below).
Accessibility: We are dedicated to providing a positive and accessible learning environment for all. Please notify the instructors in advance of the workshop if you require any accommodations or if there is anything we can do to make this workshop more accessible to you.
Contact: Please email s.vanderburg@esciencecenter.nl or c.geng@esciencecenter.nl for technical questions (for example about setup issues or prerequisites). Or email training@esciencecenter.nl for other questions or more information.
Participants are expected to follow these guidelines:
Machine learning concepts
The predictive modeling pipeline
Selecting the best model
Intuition on various models
Machine learning best practices
09:00 | Welcome and icebreaker |
09:15 | Machine learning concepts |
10:15 | Coffee break |
10:30 | Tabular data exploration |
11:30 | Coffee break |
11:45 | Fitting a scikit-learn model on numerical data |
12:45 | Wrap-up |
13:00 | END |
09:00 | Welcome and icebreaker |
09:15 | Fitting a scikit-learn model on numerical data |
10:15 | Coffee break |
10:30 | Handling categorical data |
11:30 | Coffee break |
11:45 | Handling categorical data |
12:45 | Wrap-up |
13:00 | END |
09:00 | Welcome and icebreaker |
09:15 | Overfitting and underfitting |
10:15 | Coffee break |
10:30 | Validation and learning curves |
11:30 | Coffee break |
11:45 | Bias versus variance trade-off |
12:45 | Wrap-up |
13:00 | END |
09:00 | Welcome and icebreaker |
09:15 | Intuition on various models |
10:15 | Coffee break |
10:30 | Your own machine learning project: penguins dataset |
11:30 | Coffee break |
11:45 | Machine learning best practices |
12:45 | Wrap-up |
13:00 | END |
All times in the schedule are in the CET timezone.
To participate in this workshop, you will need access to software as described below. In addition, you will need an up-to-date web browser.
We maintain a list of common issues that occur during installation as a reference for instructors that may be useful on the Configuration Problems and Solutions wiki page.
Please follow these setup instructions
If you haven't used Zoom before, go to the official website to download and install the Zoom client for your computer.
Like other Carpentries workshops, you will be learning by "coding along" with the Instructors. To do this, you will need to have both the window for the tool you will be learning about (a terminal, RStudio, your web browser, etc..) and the window for the Zoom video conference client open. In order to see both at once, we recommend using one of the following set up options: