In the world of machine learning, the quality of input data is critical. Machine learning models that use bad data input produce inaccurate and unreliable results, undermining their effectiveness and trustworthiness. Our Machine Learning Essentials Boot Camp: Preparing Your Data is a three-day hands-on skills immersion course geared for students who need to how to effectively prepare and optimize data for use in machine learning models, ensuring they produce accurate, useful and insightful predictions.
Learning Objectives
Throughout the course you will explore: Data Encoding: Dive into data encoding to seamlessly translate diverse information into a machine-friendly format. Data Manipulation Mastery: You’ll get comfortable with encoding, scaling, and normalizing data. By the end of the course, the curse of dimensionality will no longer be a challenge. Quality Analysis Confidence: Learn how to identify and remove duplicates, handle null values, manage outliers, and work with dates in your data. You’ll be a pro at maintaining clean datasets. Feature Analysis Wizardry: Discover how to identify unused columns, detect low variance ones, and understand multicollinearity. By the end of the workshop, feature selection will feel like second nature. Pipeline Proficiency: Gain a deep understanding of the critical role of pipelines in machine learning and develop the skills to create and implement your own data preprocessing pipelines. Machine Learning Basics: Get introduced to the fundamentals of machine learning, understand k-fold cross-validation, master the art of partitioning data, and learn how to prevent data leakage. You’ll be set to step confidently into the world of machine learning.
Framework Connections
The materials within this course focus on the NICE Framework Task, Knowledge, and Skill statements identified within the indicated NICE Framework component(s):
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