Machine Learning
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About Us
We're a loosely-knit stochastic federation of people who like Noisebridge and like machine learning. What is machine learning? It's broad field that typically involves training computer models to solve problems. How can you participate?
Next Meeting
- When: Wednesday, 7/13/2011 @ 7:30-9:00pm
- Where: 2169 Mission St. (back corner classroom)
- Topic: Consolidating workshops!
- Details: Going over the code we have, consolidating it, and coming up with new workshops.
- Presenters: Whoever
Talks and Workshops
Future Talks and Topics
- Boltzmann Machines, Deep Nets (Mike S, August 2011)
- Graphical Models (Tony)
Mailing List
https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/ml
Projects
- Small Group Subproblems
- Fundraising
- Noisebridge Machine Learning Course
- Kaggle Social Network Contest
- KDD Competition 2010
- HIV
Datasets and Websites
- UCI Machine Learning Repository
- DataSF.org
- Infochimps
- Face Recognition Databases
- Time Series Data Library
- Data Q&A Forum
- Metaoptimize
- Quora ML Page
Software Tools
- OpenCV
- Computer Vision Library
- Has ML component (SVM, trees, etc)
- Online tutorials here
- Mahout
- Hadoop cluster based ML package.
- Weka
- a collection of data mining tools and machine learning algorithms.
- MOA (Massive Online Analysis)
- Offshoot of weka, has all online-algorithms
- scikits.learn
- Machine learning Python package
- LIBSVM
- c-based SVM package
- PyML
- MDP
- Does not stand for Markov Decision Process :(
- Orange
- Strong data visualization component
- Journal of Machine Learning Software List
- VirtualBox Virtual Box Image with Pre-installed Libraries listed here
- Theano: Symbolic Expressions and Transparent GPU Integration
- Waffles
- Open source C++ set of machine learning command line tools.
- RapidMiner
- Mobile Robotic Programming Toolkit
- Gephi
- Graph Visualization
Presentations and other Materials
- Awesome Machine Learning Applications -- A list of cool applications of ML
- Hands-on Machine Learning, a presentation jbm gave on 2009-01-07.
- http://www.youtube.com/user/StanfordUniversity#g/c/A89DCFA6ADACE599 Stanford Machine Learning online course videos]
- Media:Brief_statistics_slides.pdf, a presentation given on statistics for the machine learning group
- LinkedIn discussion on good resources for data mining and predictive analytics
- Face Recognition Algorithms
Topics to Learn and Teach
NBML Course - Noisebridge Machine Learning Curriculum (work-in-progress)
CS229 - The Stanford Machine learning Course @ noisebridge
- Supervised Learning
- Linear Regression
- Linear Discriminants
- Neural Nets/Radial Basis Functions
- Support Vector Machines
- Classifier Combination [1]
- A basic decision tree builder, recursive and using entropy metrics
- Unsupervised Learning
- Hidden Markov Models
- Clustering: PCA, k-Means, Expectation-Maximization
- Graphical Modeling
- Generative Models: gaussian distribution, multinomial distributions, HMMs, Naive Bayes
- Deep Belief Networks & Restricted Boltzmann Machines
- Reinforcement Learning
- Temporal Difference Learning
- Math, Probability & Statistics
- Metric spaces and what they mean
- Fundamentals of probabilities
- Decision Theory (Bayesian)
- Maximum Likelihood
- Bias/Variance Tradeoff, VC Dimension
- Bagging, Bootstrap, Jacknife [2]
- Information Theory: Entropy, Mutual Information, Gaussian Channels
- Estimation of Misclassification [3]
- No-Free Lunch Theorem [4]
- Machine Learning SDK's
- Applications
- Collective Intelligence & Recommendation Engines