Applied AI from Scratch in Python Training Course
This course on Practical AI Development from the Ground Up in Python empowers programmers and data analysts with essential techniques for constructing machine learning solutions entirely from scratch using Python. It explores the fundamental principles of supervised learning, including classification and regression, as well as unsupervised learning methods such as clustering and anomaly detection, alongside advanced neural network structures. Participants will examine established techniques for utilising scikit-learn, Apache Spark MLlib, and Jupyter notebooks to facilitate hands-on AI development. The programme assists professionals in implementing practical machine learning models, assessing algorithmic constraints, and completing applied projects designed to solve real-world problems.
This course is available as onsite live training in Botswana or online live training.Course Outline
Supervised learning: classification and regression
- Machine Learning in Python: intro to the scikit-learn API
- linear and logistic regression
- support vector machine
- neural networks
- random forest
- Setting up an end-to-end supervised learning pipeline using scikit-learn
- working with data files
- imputation of missing values
- handling categorical variables
- visualizing data
Python frameworks for for AI applications:
- TensorFlow, Theano, Caffe and Keras
- AI at scale with Apache Spark: Mlib
Advanced neural network architectures
- convolutional neural networks for image analysis
- recurrent neural networks for time-structured data
- the long short-term memory cell
Unsupervised learning: clustering, anomaly detection
- implementing principal component analysis with scikit-learn
- implementing autoencoders in Keras
Practical examples of problems that AI can solve (hands-on exercises using Jupyter notebooks), e.g.
- image analysis
- forecasting complex financial series, such as stock prices,
- complex pattern recognition
- natural language processing
- recommender systems
Understand limitations of AI methods: modes of failure, costs and common difficulties
- overfitting
- bias/variance trade-off
- biases in observational data
- neural network poisoning
Applied Project work (optional)
Requirements
There are no specific requirements needed to attend this course.
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