Data Science and AI/ML (Python) training course

 Data Visualisation

• Data analysis benefits from the visualisation of data. If a picture if worth a thousand words, complex data structures can be easier to understand and analyse using effective visualisation techniques. Communicating the results with non-technical users is also a challenge that visualisation techniques help to overcome. We'll showcase how to easily produce beautiful visualisations with matplotlib.

AI Overview

• What is Artificial Intelligence? What's up with the hype?
• Data Science vs. Data Mining vs. Machine Learning
• Machine Learning Problems and Applications
• Python Environment Set-up with Anaconda Python
◦ Jupyter Notebooks
◦ Python Ecosystem for Data Science and Machine Learning

Machine Learning Concepts

• Learning and Prediction
• Feature Engineering
• Training data and Test data
• Cross-validation
• Underfitting and Overfitting

Supervised Learning Problems

• Classification: predicting a label
• Algorithms for classification: k-Nearest Neighbours, Support Vector Machine and Naive Bayes
• Regression: predicting a quantity
• Algorithms for regression: Linear Regression and Polynomial Regression

Unsupervised Learning Problems

• Clustering: grouping similar items
• Algorithms for clustering: k-Means, Hierarchical Clustering and DBSCAN
• Dimensionality Reduction
• Algorithms for dimensionality reduction: Principal Component Analysis

Evaluation of Machine Learning algorithms

• Evaluation metrics for machine learning
• Planning an evaluation campaign on your data

Deep Learning & Neural Network Overview

• Intro to Artificial Neural Networks
• Neural Network concepts
◦ Neural Network Types
◦ Gradient Descend
◦ Back-propagation
◦ Activation Functions
◦ Loss Functions
◦ Hyper-parameters
• Neural Networks in the Wild: examples of successful applications
• Deep Network Architectures
• Deep Learning Libraries