Book Review: Machine Learning for Kids - insideBIGDATA

I greatly enjoyed reading and reviewing this delightful new book, Machine Learning for Kids: A Project-based Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, by Dale Lane, which was developed to introduce machine learning technology to children. It is well-written and includes everything needed to jump-start a kid's life in data science. The book is just the thing to motivate a young person to extend their innate curiosity to data centric experimentation. Included are the solutions to many contemporary problems where the reader turns machine learning models into computer games and apps such as a Rock, Paper Scissors game that recognizes hand shapes, an interactive virtual assistant like Siri and Alexa, a movie recommendation app, and an AI motivated Pac Man app. Kids learn about the building blocks of programming for machine learning using the Scratch-based companion website, implementing an extension to Scratch that allows kids to train their own ML models and use them from their Scratch programs.