HOTH 2018 ML Workshop

This is a beginner-friendly workshop on using logistic regression to classify images of dogs and cats. This workshop is based off of the Neural Networks and Deep Learning course on Coursera, taught by Andrew Ng. We highly recommend taking this course if you want to learn more about machine learning.

Prerequisites

basic computer science knowledge
knowledge of python syntax

Using Google Colaboratory

Clone or download the repository
Go to https://colab.research.google.com
Click on new notebook
Go to File -> upload notebook
upload HOTH_2018_ML_Workshop.ipynb from where you saved the repository

Using a Jupyter Notebook

Required Dependencies:

Python 3
Jupyter
PyTables
Numpy
Matplotlib

You can install these using pip on Unix systems or Anaconda on Windows

clone the repository
open a command prompt or terminal window and cd to the directory where the repository is saved
run jupyter notebook