Tuesday, August 2, 2016

8 Tactics to Combat Imbalanced Classes in Your Machine Learning Dataset

Has this happened to you?

You are working on your dataset. You create a classification model and get 90% accuracy immediately. “Fantastic” you think. You dive a little deeper and discover that 90% of the data belongs to one class. Damn!

This is an example of an imbalanced dataset and the frustrating results it can cause.

In this post you will discover the tactics that you can use to deliver great results on machine learning datasets with imbalanced data.

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Coming To Grips With Imbalanced Data

I get emails about class imbalance all the time, for example:
I have a binary classification problem and one class is present with 60:1 ratio in my training set. I used the logistic regression and the result seems to just ignores one class.
And this:
I am working on a classification model. In my dataset I have three different labels to be classified, let them be A, B and C. But in the training dataset I have A dataset with 70% volume, B with 25% and C with 5%. Most of time my results are overfit to A. Can you please suggest how can I solve this problem?
I write long lists of techniques to try and think about the best ways to get past this problem. I finally took the advice of one of my students:
Perhaps one of your upcoming blog posts could address the problem of training a model to perform against highly imbalanced data, and outline some techniques and expectations.
Frustration!

Imbalanced data can cause you a lot of frustration.

You feel very frustrated when you discovered that your data has imbalanced classes and that all of the great results you thought you were getting turn out to be a lie.

The next wave of frustration hits when the books, articles and blog posts don’t seem to give you good advice about handling the imbalance in your data.

Relax, there are many options and we’re going to go through them all. It is possible, you can build predictive models for imbalanced data.

What is Imbalanced Data?

Imbalanced data typically refers to a problem with classification problems where the classes are not represented equally.

For example, you may have a 2-class (binary) classification problem with 100 instances (rows). A total of 80 instances are labeled with Class-1 and the remaining 20 instances are labeled with Class-2.

This is an imbalanced dataset and the ratio of Class-1 to Class-2 instances is 80:20 or more concisely 4:1.

You can have a class imbalance problem on two-class classification problems as well as multi-class classification problems. Most techniques can be used on either.

The remaining discussions will assume a two-class classification problem because it is easier to think about and describe.

Imbalance is Common

Most classification data sets do not have exactly equal number of instances in each class, but a small difference often does not matter.

There are problems where a class imbalance is not just common, it is expected. For example, in datasets like those that characterize fraudulent transactions are imbalanced. The vast majority of the transactions will be in the “Not-Fraud” class and a very small minority will be in the “Fraud” class.

Another example is customer churn datasets, where the vast majority of customers stay with the service (the “No-Churn” class) and a small minority cancel their subscription (the “Churn” class).

When there is a modest class imbalance like 4:1 in the example above it can cause problems.

Accuracy Paradox

The accuracy paradox is the name for the exact situation in the introduction to this post.

It is the case where your accuracy measures tell the story that you have excellent accuracy (such as 90%), but the accuracy is only reflecting the underlying class distribution.

It is very common, because classification accuracy is often the first measure we use when evaluating models on our classification problems.

Put it All On Red!

What is going on in our models when we train on an imbalanced dataset?

As you might have guessed, the reason we get 90% accuracy on an imbalanced data (with 90% of the instances in Class-1) is because our models look at the data and cleverly decide that the best thing to do is to always predict “Class-1” and achieve high accuracy.

This is best seen when using a simple rule based algorithm. If you print out the rule in the final model you will see that it is very likely predicting one class regardless of the data it is asked to predict.

8 Tactics To Combat Imbalanced Training Data

We now understand what class imbalance is and why it provides misleading classification accuracy.

So what are our options?

1) Can You Collect More Data?

You might think it’s silly, but collecting more data is almost always overlooked.

Can you collect more data? Take a second and think about whether you are able to gather more data on your problem.

A larger dataset might expose a different and perhaps more balanced perspective on the classes.

More examples of minor classes may be useful later when we look at resampling your dataset.

2) Try Changing Your Performance Metric

Accuracy is not the metric to use when working with an imbalanced dataset. We have seen that it is misleading.

There are metrics that have been designed to tell you a more truthful story when working with imbalanced classes.

I give more advice on selecting different performance measures in my post “Classification Accuracy is Not Enough: More Performance Measures You Can Use“.

In that post I look at an imbalanced dataset that characterizes the recurrence of breast cancer in patients.

From that post, I recommend looking at the following performance measures that can give more insight into the accuracy of the model than traditional classification accuracy:

  • Confusion Matrix: A breakdown of predictions into a table showing correct predictions (the diagonal) and the types of incorrect predictions made (what classes incorrect predictions were assigned).
  • Precision: A measure of a classifiers exactness.
  • Recall: A measure of a classifiers completeness
  • F1 Score (or F-score): A weighted average of precision and recall.

I would also advice you to take a look at the following:

  • Kappa (or Cohen’s kappa): Classification accuracy normalized by the imbalance of the classes in the data.
  • ROC Curves: Like precision and recall, accuracy is divided into sensitivity and specificity and models can be chosen based on the balance thresholds of these values.

You can learn a lot more about using ROC Curves to compare classification accuracy in our post “Assessing and Comparing Classifier Performance with ROC Curves“.

Still not sure? Start with kappa, it will give you a better idea of what is going on than classification accuracy.

3) Try Resampling Your Dataset

You can change the dataset that you use to build your predictive model to have more balanced data.

This change is called sampling your dataset and there are two main methods that you can use to even-up the classes:

  1. You can add copies of instances from the under-represented class called over-sampling (or more formally sampling with replacement), or
  2. You can delete instances from the over-represented class, called under-sampling.

These approaches are often very easy to implement and fast to run. They are an excellent starting point.

In fact, I would advise you to always try both approaches on all of your imbalanced datasets, just to see if it gives you a boost in your preferred accuracy measures.

You can learn a little more in the the Wikipedia article titled “Oversampling and undersampling in data analysis“.

Some Rules of Thumb

Consider testing under-sampling when you have an a lot data (tens- or hundreds of thousands of instances or more)
Consider testing over-sampling when you don’t have a lot of data (tens of thousands of records or less)
Consider testing random and non-random (e.g. stratified) sampling schemes.
Consider testing different resampled ratios (e.g. you don’t have to target a 1:1 ratio in a binary classification problem, try other ratios)

4) Try Generate Synthetic Samples

A simple way to generate synthetic samples is to randomly sample the attributes from instances in the minority class.

You could sample them empirically within your dataset or you could use a method like Naive Bayes that can sample each attribute independently when run in reverse. You will have more and different data, but the non-linear relationships between the attributes may not be preserved.

There are systematic algorithms that you can use to generate synthetic samples. The most popular of such algorithms is called SMOTE or the Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique.

As its name suggests, SMOTE is an oversampling method. It works by creating synthetic samples from the minor class instead of creating copies. The algorithm selects two or more similar instances (using a distance measure) and perturbing an instance one attribute at a time by a random amount within the difference to the neighboring instances.

Learn more about SMOTE, see the original 2002 paper titled “SMOTE: Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique“.

There are a number of implementations of the SMOTE algorithm, for example:

  • In Python, take a look at the “UnbalancedDataset” module. It provides a number of implementations of SMOTE as well as various other resampling techniques that you could try.
  • In R, the DMwR package provides an implementation of SMOTE.
  • In Weka, you can use the SMOTE supervised filter.

5) Try Different Algorithms

As always, I strongly advice you to not use your favorite algorithm on every problem. You should at least be spot-checking a variety of different types of algorithms on a given problem.

For more on spot-checking algorithms, see my post “Why you should be Spot-Checking Algorithms on your Machine Learning Problems”.

That being said, decision trees often perform well on imbalanced datasets. The splitting rules that look at the class variable used in the creation of the trees, can force both classes to be addressed.

If in doubt, try a few popular decision tree algorithms like C4.5, C5.0, CART, and Random Forest.

For some example R code using decision trees, see my post titled “Non-Linear Classification in R with Decision Trees“.

For an example of using CART in Python and scikit-learn, see my post titled “Get Your Hands Dirty With Scikit-Learn Now“.

6) Try Penalized Models

You can use the same algorithms but give them a different perspective on the problem.

Penalized classification imposes an additional cost on the model for making classification mistakes on the minority class during training. These penalties can bias the model to pay more attention to the minority class.

Often the handling of class penalties or weights are specialized to the learning algorithm. There are penalized versions of algorithms such as penalized-SVM and penalized-LDA.

It is also possible to have generic frameworks for penalized models. For example, Weka has a CostSensitiveClassifier that can wrap any classifier and apply a custom penalty matrix for miss classification.

Using penalization is desirable if you are locked into a specific algorithm and are unable to resample or you’re getting poor results. It provides yet another way to “balance” the classes. Setting up the penalty matrix can be complex. You will very likely have to try a variety of penalty schemes and see what works best for your problem.

7) Try a Different Perspective

There are fields of study dedicated to imbalanced datasets. They have their own algorithms, measures and terminology.

Taking a look and thinking about your problem from these perspectives can sometimes shame loose some ideas.

Two you might like to consider are anomaly detection and change detection.

Anomaly detection is the detection of rare events. This might be a machine malfunction indicated through its vibrations or a malicious activity by a program indicated by it’s sequence of system calls. The events are rare and when compared to normal operation.

This shift in thinking considers the minor class as the outliers class which might help you think of new ways to separate and classify samples.

Change detection is similar to anomaly detection except rather than looking for an anomaly it is looking for a change or difference. This might be a change in behavior of a user as observed by usage patterns or bank transactions.

Both of these shifts take a more real-time stance to the classification problem that might give you some new ways of thinking about your problem and maybe some more techniques to try.

8) Try Getting Creative

Really climb inside your problem and think about how to break it down into smaller problems that are more tractable.

For inspiration, take a look at the very creative answers on Quora in response to the question “In classification, how do you handle an unbalanced training set?”

For example:
Decompose your larger class into smaller number of other classes…
…use a One Class Classifier… (e.g. treat like outlier detection)
…resampling the unbalanced training set into not one balanced set, but several. Running an ensemble of classifiers on these sets could produce a much better result than one classifier alone
These are just a few of some interesting and creative ideas you could try.

For more ideas, check out these comments on the reddit post “Classification when 80% of my training set is of one class“.

Pick a Method and Take Action

You do not need to be an algorithm wizard or a statistician to build accurate and reliable models from imbalanced datasets.

We have covered a number of techniques that you can use to model an imbalanced dataset.

Hopefully there are one or two that you can take off the shelf and apply immediately, for example changing your accuracy metric and resampling your dataset. Both are fast and will have an impact straight away.

Which method are you going to try?

A Final Word, Start Small

Remember that we cannot know which approach is going to best serve you and the dataset you are working on.

You can use some expert heuristics to pick this method or that, but in the end, the best advice I can give you is to “become the scientist” and empirically test each method and select the one that gives you the best results.

Start small and build upon what you learn.
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Saturday, July 30, 2016

A Tour of Machine Learning Algorithms


There are so many algorithms available and it can feel overwhelming when algorithm names are thrown around and you are expected to just know what they are and where they fit.

In this post I want to give you two ways to think about and categorize the algorithms you may come across in the field.
  • The first is a grouping of algorithms by the learning style.
  • The second is a grouping of algorithms by similarity in form or function (like grouping similar animals together).
Both approaches are useful, but we will focus in on the grouping of algorithms by similarity and go on a tour of a variety of different algorithm types.

After reading this post, you will have a much better understanding of the most popular machine learning algorithms for supervised learning and how they are related.

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Algorithms Grouped by Learning Style

There are different ways an algorithm can model a problem based on its interaction with the experience or environment or whatever we want to call the input data.

It is popular in machine learning and artificial intelligence textbooks to first consider the learning styles that an algorithm can adopt.

There are only a few main learning styles or learning models that an algorithm can have and we’ll go through them here with a few examples of algorithms and problem types that they suit.

This taxonomy or way of organizing machine learning algorithms is useful because it forces you to think about the the roles of the input data and the model preparation process and select one that is the most appropriate for your problem in order to get the best result.

Let’s take a look at four different learning styles in machine learning algorithms:

Supervised Learning

Input data is called training data and has a known label or result such as spam/not-spam or a stock price at a time.

A model is prepared through a training process where it is required to make predictions and is corrected when those predictions are wrong. The training process continues until the model achieves a desired level of accuracy on the training data.

Example problems are classification and regression.

Example algorithms include Logistic Regression and the Back Propagation Neural Network.

Unsupervised Learning

Input data is not labelled and does not have a known result.

A model is prepared by deducing structures present in the input data. This may be to extract general rules. It may through a mathematical process to systematically reduce redundancy, or it may be to organize data by similarity.

Example problems are clustering, dimensionality reduction and association rule learning.

Example algorithms include: the Apriori algorithm and k-Means.

Semi-Supervised Learning


Input data is a mixture of labelled and unlabelled examples.

There is a desired prediction problem but the model must learn the structures to organize the data as well as make predictions.

Example problems are classification and regression.

Example algorithms are extensions to other flexible methods that make assumptions about how to model the unlabelled data.

Overview

When crunching data to model business decisions, you are most typically using supervised and unsupervised learning methods.

A hot topic at the moment is semi-supervised learning methods in areas such as image classification where there are large datasets with very few labelled examples.

Algorithms Grouped By Similarity

Algorithms are often grouped by similarity in terms of their function (how they work). For example, tree-based methods, and neural network inspired methods.

I think this is the most useful way to group algorithms and it is the approach we will use here.

This is a useful grouping method, but it is not perfect. There are still algorithms that could just as easily fit into multiple categories like Learning Vector Quantization that is both a neural network inspired method and an instance-based method. There are also categories that have the same name that describes the problem and the class of algorithm such as Regression and Clustering.

We could handle these cases by listing algorithms twice or by selecting the group that subjectively is the “best” fit. I like this latter approach of not duplicating algorithms to keep things simple.

In this section I list many of the popular machine leaning algorithms grouped the way I think is the most intuitive. It is not exhaustive in either the groups or the algorithms, but I think it is representative and will be useful to you to get an idea of the lay of the land.

Please Note: There is a strong bias towards algorithms used for classification and regression, the two most prevalent supervised machine learning problems you will encounter.

If you know of an algorithm or a group of algorithms not listed, put it in the comments and share it with us. Let’s dive in.

Regression Algorithms


Regression is concerned with modelling the relationship between variables that is iteratively refined using a measure of error in the predictions made by the model.

Regression methods are a workhorse of statistics and have been cooped into statistical machine learning. This may be confusing because we can use regression to refer to the class of problem and the class of algorithm. Really, regression is a process.

The most popular regression algorithms are:
  • Ordinary Least Squares Regression (OLSR)
  • Linear Regression
  • Logistic Regression
  • Stepwise Regression
  • Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines (MARS)
  • Locally Estimated Scatterplot Smoothing (LOESS)
Instance-based Algorithms


Instance based learning model a decision problem with instances or examples of training data that are deemed important or required to the model.

Such methods typically build up a database of example data and compare new data to the database using a similarity measure in order to find the best match and make a prediction. For this reason, instance-based methods are also called winner-take-all methods and memory-based learning. Focus is put on representation of the stored instances and similarity measures used between instances.
The most popular instance-based algorithms are:
  • k-Nearest Neighbour (kNN)
  • Learning Vector Quantization (LVQ)
  • Self-Organizing Map (SOM)
  • Locally Weighted Learning (LWL)
Regularization Algorithms


An extension made to another method (typically regression methods) that penalizes models based on their complexity, favoring simpler models that are also better at generalizing.

I have listed regularization algorithms separately here because they are popular, powerful and generally simple modifications made to other methods.

The most popular regularization algorithms are:
  • Ridge Regression
  • Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (LASSO)
  • Elastic Net
  • Least-Angle Regression (LARS)
Decision Tree Algorithms


Decision tree methods construct a model of decisions made based on actual values of attributes in the data.

Decisions fork in tree structures until a prediction decision is made for a given record. Decision trees are trained on data for classification and regression problems. Decision trees are often fast and accurate and a big favorite in machine learning.

The most popular decision tree algorithms are:
  • Classification and Regression Tree (CART)
  • Iterative Dichotomiser 3 (ID3)
  • C4.5 and C5.0 (different versions of a powerful approach)
  • Chi-squared Automatic Interaction Detection (CHAID)
  • Decision Stump
  • M5
  • Conditional Decision Trees
Bayesian Algorithms

Bayesian methods are those that are explicitly apply Bayes’ Theorem for problems such as classification and regression.

The most popular Bayesian algorithms are:
  • Naive Bayes
  • Gaussian Naive Bayes
  • Multinomial Naive Bayes
  • Averaged One-Dependence Estimators (AODE)
  • Bayesian Belief Network (BBN)
  • Bayesian Network (BN)
Clustering Algorithms


Clustering, like regression describes the class of problem and the class of methods.

Clustering methods are typically organized by the modelling approaches such as centroid-based and hierarchal. All methods are concerned with using the inherent structures in the data to best organize the data into groups of maximum commonality.

The most popular clustering algorithms are:

k-Means
k-Medians
Expectation Maximisation (EM)
Hierarchical Clustering
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Thursday, July 28, 2016

Machine Learning for Programmers: Leap from developer to machine learning practitioner

(a.k.a. my answer to the question: “how do I get started in machine learning?“)
I’m a developer. I have read a book or some posts on machine learning. I have watched some of the Coursera machine learning course. I still don’t know how to get started…
Does this sound familiar?


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Frustrated with machine learning books and courses?
How do you get started in machine learning?
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The most common question I’m asked by developers on my newsletter is “how do I get started in machine learning?“. I honestly cannot remember how many times I have answered it.

In this post I lay out all of my very best thinking on this topic.
  • You will discover why the traditional approach to teaching machine learning does not work for you.
  • You will discover how to flip the entire model on its head.
  • And you will discover my simple but very effective antidote that you can use to get started.
Let’s get into it…

A Developer Interested in Machine Learning

You are a developer and you’re interested in getting into machine learning. And why not? It’s a hot topic at the moment, and it’s a fascinating and fast growing field.

You read some blog posts. You tried to go deeper but the books are dreadful. Math focused. Theory focused. Algorithm focused.

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Sound familiar? Have you tried books, MOOCs,
 blog posts and still not know how to get started in machine learning
?
You try some video courses. You sign-up and make an honest attempt at the oft cited Coursera Stanford Machine Learning MOOC. It’s not much better than the books and detailed blog posts. You can’t see what all the fuss is about, why it is recommended to beginners.

You may have even attempted some small data sets, perhaps an entry level Kaggle competition.

The problem is you can’t connect the theory, algorithms and math from the books and courses to the problem. There’s a huge gap. A gulf. How ARE you supposed to get started in machine learning?

Machine Learning Engineer

When you think forward into the future, once you have captured this elusive understanding of machine learning, what does your job look like? How are you using your newfound machine learning skills in your day-to-day?

I think I can see it. You’re a machine learning engineer. You’re a developer that knows how to “do” machine learning.

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Do you want to transition from developer to a developer that can do machine learning?

Scenario 1: The one-off model

Your boss walks over and says:
Hey, you know machine learning, right? Can you use the customer data from last year to predict which current customers in our sales pipeline are likely to convert? I want to use it in a presentation to the board next week…
I call this the one-off model.

The problem is well defined by your boss. She gives you the data, which is small enough to look at and understand in MS Excel if you had to. She wants accurate and reliable predictions.

You can deliver. And more importantly, you can explain all the relevant caveats on the results.

Scenario 2: The embedded model

You and your team are collecting requirements from stakeholders on a software project. There is a requirement for the user to be able to freehand draw shapes in the software, and for the software to figure out which shape it is and turn it into a crisp unambiguous version and label it appropriately.

You quickly see that the best (and only viable?) way to solve this problem is to devise and train a predictive model and embed it in your software product.

I call this the embedded model. There are variations (such as whether the model is static or updated, and whether it is local or called remotely via an API), but that’s just detail.

What’s key in this scenario is that you have the experience to notice a problem that is best solved with a predictive model and the skills to devise, train and deploy it.

Scenario 3: The deep model

You have started a new job and the system you are working on is made up of at least one predictive model. Maintenance and the addition of features to this system require an understanding of the model, its inputs and its outputs. The accuracy of the model is a feature of the software product and part of your job will be to improve it.

For example, as a part of regular pre-release system testing, you must demonstrate that the accuracy of the model (when validated on historical data) has the same or better skill than the previous version.

I call this the deep model. You will be expected to build a deep understanding of one specific predictive model and use your experience and skill to improve and verify its accuracy as part of your routine duties.

The Developer That “Does” Machine Learning

These scenarios give you a glimpse at what it’s like to be a developer that knows how to do machine learning. They’re realistic because they are all variations on scenarios I’ve been in or tasks that I have had to complete.

All three of these scenarios make one thing very clear. Although machine learning is a fascinating area, to a developer machine learning algorithms are just another bag of tricks, like multi-threading or 3d graphics programming. Nevertheless, they are a powerful group of methods that are absolutely required for a specific class of problem.

Traditional Answer To: “how do I get started?

So how do you get started in machine learning?

If you crack a book on machine learning seeking an answer to this question, you’ll get a shock. They start with definitions and move on to mathematical descriptions of concepts and algorithms of ever increasing complexity.

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The traditional answer to the question “how do I get started in machine learning” is bottom-up.
Definitions and mathematical descriptions are clear, succinct and often unambiguous. The thing is, they are dry, boring and require the requisite mathematical background to parse and interpret.

There is a reason why machine learning is often taught as a graduate level subject at university. It’s because this “first principles” way of teaching the subject requires years of prerequisites to understand.

For example, it is advisable that you have a good footing in:
  • Statistics
  • Probability
  • Linear Algebra
  • Multivariate Statistics
  • Calculus
This gets worse if you stray slightly into some of the more exotic and interesting algorithms.

This bottom-up and algorithm fixated approach to machine learning is pervasive.

Online courses, MOOCs and YouTube videos mimic the university approach to teaching machine learning. Again, this is great if you have the background or you’ve already put in your half-to-full-decade of studies to earn those higher degrees. It does not help your average developer.

If you skulk off to a question and answer forum like Quora, StackExchange or Reddit and meekly ask how to get started, you’re slapped with the same response. Often this response comes from fellow developers who are just as lost. It’s one big echo chamber of the same bad advice.

It’s no wonder that honest and hard working developers seeking to do the right thing think they have to go back to school and get a Masters or PhD before they feel qualified to “do” machine learning.

The Traditional Approach is DEAD WRONG!

Think about this bottom-up approach to teaching machine learning for a second. It’s rigorous and systematic and sounds like the right idea on the surface. How could it be wrong?

Bottom-Up Programming (or, how to kill-off budding programmers)

Imagine you’re a young developer. You’ve picked up some of this and that language and you’re starting to learn how to create standalone software.

You tell friends and family that you want to get into a career where you get to program every day. They tell you that you need to do a degree in computer science before you can get a job as a programmer.

You sign-up and start a computer science degree. Semester after semester you are exposed to more and more esoteric algebra, calculus and discrete math. You use antiquated programming languages. Your passion for programming and building software wavers.

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The traditional approach to getting started in machine learning has a gap on the path to practitioner.
Perhaps you somehow make it to the other side. Looking back, you realize you were not taught one thing about modern software development practices, languages, tooling, or anything that you can use in your pursuit of creating and delivering software.

See the parallels to the teaching of machine learning?

Thankfully, programming has been around long enough, is popular enough and is important enough to the economy that we have found other ways to give budding young (or old) programmers the skills they need to actually do the thing they want to do – e.g. create software.

It does not make sense to load up a budding programmer’s head with theory on computability or computational complexity, or even deep details of algorithms and data structures. Some of this useful material (the latter on algorithmic complexity and data structures) can come later. Perhaps with focused material – but importantly in the context of an engineer that is already programming and delivering software, not in isolation.

Thankfully we have focused software engineering degrees. We also have resources like codecademy where you learn to program by… yep, actually programming.

If a developer wants to “do” machine learning, should they really have to go and spend a bunch of years and tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to get the requisite math and higher degrees?

The answer is of course not! There is a better way.

A Better Approach

As with computer science, you can’t just invert the model and teach the same material top-down.

The reason is, like a computer science course never making it to the subjects that cover the practical concerns of developing and delivering software, machine learning courses and books fall well short. They stop at algorithms.

You need a top-down approach to machine learning. An approach where you focus on the actual result you want: working real machine learning problems from end-to-end using modern and “best of breed” tools and platforms.

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A better approach to learning machine learning that starts with working machine learning problems end-to-end.

Here’s what I think your yellow brick road looks like.
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