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Title: Machine Learning for Fun and Profit
Proposer: Burkhard Kloss
Type:
Duration: 90 mins
Description:
Machine learning is a popular field at the moment, and there are a
plethora of techniques and a bewildering array of free tools and
libraries that are becoming available.
A lot of the literature is highly academic and theoretical.
I propose to give an brief overview of some of the field, then narrow
the focus on one or two tools and a handful of techniques and go through
some practical examples. Give my background, some of those are likely
to be financial, but I'll make sure to include some more conventionally
amusing ones.
JJ: Burkhard writes - This is obviously a huge topic, and offers a lot of flexibility in the presentation - so I could do any length: 45 minutes for a brief overview, 90 minutes for an interactive tutorial, or if there were demand, a full day workshop.