Machine Learning in a Week – Learning New Stuff

Getting into machine learning (ml) can seem like an unachievable task from the outside. However, after dedicating one week to learning the basics of the subject, I found it to be much more accessible than I anticipated. This article is intended to give others who're interested in getting into ml a roadmap of how to get started, drawing from the experiences I made in my intro week. Before my machine learning week, I had been reading about the subject for a while, and had gone through half of Andrew Ng's course on Coursera and a few other theoretical courses. So I had a tiny bit of conceptual understanding of ml, though I was completely unable to transfer any of my knowledge into code.