The Machine Learning workshop is 1 of 8 workshops that are being offered in the Ontario East High Performance Summer School hosted by the Centre for Advanced Computing at Queen's University. This virtual workshop is a free regional training resource intended to provide an immersive introduction to the world of advanced computing. 

Machine Learning

Date: August 19, 2021, 9:00am - 4:00pm
Pre-requisites: 
1. Introduction to Python Programming
2. Data Preparation

Description: This workshop introduces Predictive Analytics to answer the question of “What will happen?”. It discusses when and how to use the different predictive Machine Learning algorithms. The workshop covers algorithms in Supervised Learning (Classification and Regression) such as KNN, Decision Trees, Random Forest, Naïve Bayes, Support Vector Machines, Neural Networks, Logistic and Linear Regression. The workshop also introduces a set of statistical evaluation methods to compare the performance of different algorithms.

Instructor: Dr. Amal Khalil, Queen's University

Instruction time: 6 hours