Carpentries @ Stanford - Python Machine Learning

Time and Date: Tuesday, 2020-11-10 / 13:00 - 16:00 (Pacific Standard Time)

Location: Virtual via Zoom (will be emailed to participants separately) 

Admission: Free. Open to Current Stanford Affiliates only. Registration is required, and offered on a first-come first-serve basis. Space is limited, with a waitlist when all slots are full. 

Registration: Logging into Google using your Stanford email address and sign-on credentials (you may need to sign out of your personal account first in order to do this), sign up here: https://forms.gle/SuXjEvkcjaYAfrGr5

Audience: Faculty / Staff / Students / Postdocs 

Event Sponsor: Stanford University Libraries - Carpentries Program

Event Contact: Zac Painter, zwp [at] stanford.edu (zwp[at]stanford[dot]edu) 

Lead Instructors: Dr. Jake Lever, Postdoctoral Researcher (Bioengineering)

Workshop Assistants: Zac Painter, Librarian (Engineering)Others TBD

Course Description: Machine learning is used in a wide variety of applications to make predictions and understand large data sets. In this three hour workshop, attendees will get started with the Python package scikit-learn to learn how to build a machine learning system and evaluate it. Prior experience with beginner Python is required.