Machine Learning Fundamentals

Day 1: Introduction to Machine Learning

1. Morning Session: Machine Learning Fundamentals

   – Welcome

   – Introduction to statistical methods and machine learning concepts

   – Types of machine learning: supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning

   – Real-world applications of machine learning

2. Afternoon Session: Setting Up the Environment

   – Introduction to Jupyter Notebooks / Colab

   – intro to necessary libraries (e.g., NumPy, pandas, scikit-learn, statsmodels)

   – Loading and exploring datasets (Iris)

Day2: Nuts and Bolts of ML

  1. Morning Session: Fundamentals
  • Bias
  • Similarity measures
  • Model evaluation for classification (e.g., accuracy, precision, recall, F1-score, AUC)
  1. Basic Concepts
  • Overfit and Underfit
  • Bias-Variance Trade off

Day 3: Supervised Learning

1. Morning Session: Linear Regression

   – Introduction to linear regression

   – Implementing linear regression with scikit-learn

   – Model evaluation and metrics (e.g., MSE, R-squared)

2. Afternoon Session: Classification

   – Introduction to classification

   – Implementing logistic regression for binary classification

Day 4: Introduction to Deep Learning

Morning Session: Building Your First Neural Network 

  • Anatomy of a neural network (layers, weights, biases) Implementing a simple feedforward neural network using a deep learning framework (e.g., TensorFlow or PyTorch)
  • Training a neural network with a toy dataset

Afternoon Session: Deep Learning Architectures

  • Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) Introduction to CNNs and their applications (e.g., image classification)
  • Implementing a CNN for image classification

Day 5: Advanced Topics and Next Steps

1. **Morning Session: Deep Learning**

   – Introduction to neural networks and deep learning

   – Implementing a simple neural network with TensorFlow or PyTorch

2. **Afternoon Session: Model Deployment and Future Learning**

   – Deploying machine learning models (e.g., using Flask)

   – Discussion of future learning resources and career opportunities in machine learning

Day 6: Hands-On Projects

1. Morning Session: Project Work

   – Participants work on small machine learning projects in groups

   – Mentors provide guidance and assistance

2. Afternoon Session: Project Presentations

   – Each group presents their project

   – Peer review and feedback.