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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">In a previous email I stated that Mirko Vorabbi would be giving a talk on data science today, unfortunately this is not the case. Mirko
<i>Miorelli</i> will be giving a talk today at 2 PM, but not on data science. Mirko does work currently in data science and has offered to give a talk on data science in the future, but not today.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">As some of you heard on the all-hands meeting on Aug 31, the hiring of data scientist is nearly complete, but that they likely won't start for a month, which is a bit longer than I had anticipated. In light of this,
I* was thinking we could pick of of the many free online courses in data science/machine learning and we can collectively take the course together, and perhaps take turns teaching a lesson every other week. A few examples of such courses are:</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Here is a free online course that follows the graduate-level machine learning course and Columbia University (it follows roughly the same curriculum as the machine learning course at McGill).<br>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><a href="https://www.edx.org/course/machine-learning-columbiax-csmm-102x-3" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk667950" previewremoved="true">https://www.edx.org/course/machine-learning-columbiax-csmm-102x-3</a></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Here is another example, Kaggle. Kaggle is a website that has free lessons and tutorials on data science and related topics, as well as a large variety of competitions, including the AtlasML competition.<br>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><a href="https://www.kaggle.com/learn/machine-learning" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk667950" previewremoved="true"></a><a href="https://www.kaggle.com/learn/machine-learning" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk974435" previewremoved="true">https://www.kaggle.com/learn/machine-learning</a><br>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">If you are interested in choosing one or more of these online classes and taking turns teaching lessons about machine learning, let me know.<br>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">*I think it was actually Nir that suggested this to me a few weeks ago.<br>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Sorry for the last-minute confusion.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Cheers,</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">David Livermore<br>
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