Preparing a Dataset for Machine Learning With PHP

Machine learning is the science of teaching a computer to solve problems by example rather than writing sequential algorithms which instructions run one by one. Data preparation for machine learning is the prior step towards training a model, and usually involves two substeps: creating a dataset and transforming the data. In this post I'll be focusing on the former in the context of building a human-like AI to play chess in PHP. Because contrary to popular belief, Python is not the only programming language for data science in this world. I am preparing the data on this GitHub repo with MySQL, PHP and Rubix ML, a machine learning and deep learning library for the PHP language.