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Machine Learning Meetups

4/11/17:

• Where: Coffee Bean
• Topic: Introduction to machine learning algorithms. Review of machine learning map provided by Scikit-Learn and can be found here: http://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.feature_extraction.text.TfidfVectorizer.html#sklearn.feature_extraction.text.TfidfVectorizer.get_feature_names
• Meetup Link: https://www.meetup.com/LearnTeachCode/events/237691291/

4/25/17:

• Where: Ticketmaster
• Topic: Deeper dive into regression and classification algorithms. Walk-through of several examples: how to explore the data and solve a classifcation problem.
• Meetup Link: https://www.meetup.com/LearnTeachCode/events/237691291/

5/16/17:

• Where: Operam
• Topic: Guest speakers Charlie Marshak and Roman Gavuliak who spoke about Page Rank and Data in Production.
• Meetup Link: https://www.meetup.com/LearnTeachCode/events/239826944/
• Meetup Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KRW6jwduLI&feature=youtu.be

6/6/17:

• Where: Ticketmaster
• Topic: Meetup lead by Liz.
• Meetup Link: https://www.meetup.com/LearnTeachCode/events/240408210/

7/18/17:

• Where: Ticketmaster
• Topic: Focus on natural language processing with Python, namely implementation of TF-IDF as a means of extracting insights from text data. Refer to tf-idf example folder for more.
• Meetup Link: https://www.meetup.com/LearnTeachCode/events/241234844/

8/15/17:

• Where: Ticketmaster
• Topic: Focus on Encryption and Decryption with Python. Specifically, we maximize the Log-Likihood loss function using the Metropolis Algorithm. Refer to decryption example folder for more.
• Meetup Link: https://www.meetup.com/LearnTeachCode/events/242233375/

10/17/17:

• Where: Ticketmaster
• Topic: This week we talk about 3 different ensemble methods: Bagging, Boosting and Stacking. We discuss the benefits of ensemble methods and run through an example of Bagging using Sonar data from scratch in Python.
• Meetup Link: https://www.meetup.com/LearnTeachCode/events/243630046/

1/22/18:

• Where: Ticketmaster
• Topic: Randy and I spoke about the importance of Data Cleansing and walked through some concrete examples of how to take your data from messy, noisy and incomplete to data that is ready to be analyzed! Remember: Garbage in...garbage out!
• Meetup Link: https://www.meetup.com/LearnTeachCode/events/246649418/
• Meetup Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iugvVh85_oc&feature=youtu.be

2/26/18:

• Where: Ticketmaster
• Topic: Sepideh, a Data Scientist at Ticketmaster, shared with us how the Data Science team at Ticketmaster is fighting bots using Vowpal Wabbit!
• Meetup Link: https://www.meetup.com/LearnTeachCode/events/247654593/
• Meetup Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08YqdaY-_jc&feature=youtu.be

3/26/18:

• Where: Ticketmaster
• Topic: Recommendation systems
• Meetup Link: https://www.meetup.com/LearnTeachCode/events/247763461/
• Meetup Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGG8lTRG7Hs

6/20/18:

• Where: MobilityWare
• Topic: Resampling Techniques
• Meetup Link: https://www.meetup.com/OC-Machine-Learning-and-Big-Data/events/qjmnspyxjbbc/
• Meetup Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3x3AbRkb7U

I am always open to your feedback! Feel free to email me at with any machine learning questions or suggestions for the next meetup: [e-mail]