This tutorial from Max Taggart is a hands-on introduction to the concepts of Machine Learning. It uses a simple data set (age, height, weight, gender) to create a gender prediction model.

You may wish to take notes on the concepts within your local copy of the notebook as you follow along during the workshop.

Install the following on your laptop before starting:

• Anaconda - a popular cross-platform Python/R machine learning install that includes Python and Jupyter Notebooks

  or

• Python (2.7 or 3.3+) using the official installers; Max has also created a terminal PowerShell module for installing Python and creating virtual environments.

• Jupyter Notebook

Also the following Python libraries (e.g. via pip). Windows users may need to add their Python install to their PATH to run Python commands from a terminal.

• pandas
• matplotlib
• numpy
• sklearn

You may also want to verify and test your install by running the notebook.