3. Sexiest
job
in
21st
century*
McKinsey
Global
Ins&tute
report
es&mates
that
by
2018,
“the
United
States
alone
could
face
a
shortage
of
140,000
to
190,000
people
with
deep
analy&cal
skills
as
well
as
1.5
million
managers
and
analysts
with
the
know-‐how
to
use
the
analysis
of
big
data
to
make
effec&ve
decisions”
Source:
Harvard
business
Review
Oct’
2012
15. So
what
about
machine
learning?
Pioneer
in
machine
learning,
created
a
checkers
game
that
played
itself
“Give
machines
the
ability
to
learn
without
explicitly
programming
them.”
Arthur
L.
Samuel
(1959)
33. How
can
I
get
started?
• MOOCs
– Coursera
Machine
Learning
(Andrew
Ng
-‐
Stanford)
– Learning
from
Data
(Abu-‐Mostafa
-‐
Caltech)
• Other
references
– Collec&ve
Intelligence
– Mining
of
massive
data
sets
– Open-‐Source
Data
Science
Masters
• Frameworks
– Python
–
Scikit
learn
– Java
–
WEKA
and
Cascading