ANITA astroinformatics 2019

Rise of the machines: An introduction to machine learning

The school took place over three days, 4 – 6 February 2019.

Topics covered:

• Data preparation and exploratory data analysis with pandas
• Classification
  • Cross validation
  • Learning curves
  • Model tuning
  • Reporting
• Regression
• Clustering and dimensionality reduction
• Introduction to deep learning
  • building a network from scratch (Artificial Neural Network example)
  • training and evaluation of the model
• Convolutional Neural Networks
• Transfer learning
• Hands on examples and exercises throughout