Get good with deliberate practice

Hi, the secret to getting good at applied machine learning is practice. Work through a lot of different problems. It's straightforward, but you will be surprised by the number of people that just ignore this advice. They think the secret is in a textbook or in the math. Nope. That is just procrastination. Once you have your process and your tool, you need to find machine learning on which to practice. * I recommend tabular data, like how data looks in an excel spreadsheet, because it is much easier to work with. * I recommend using small datasets that fit into memory. * I recommend datasets that are already well understood so you know what a good result looks like. A good place to find free dataset on which to practice is the UCI Machine Learning Repository. It is a website that lists and allows you to download all of the standard machine learning datasets. Don't just pick any old dataset, carefully design a program of problem types to practice on to exercise your tool, process and your developing skill set. You can learn more about the dataset repository and how to pick good practice datasets in the post:     >> Practice Machine Learning with Small In-Memory Datasets I'll speak to you soon. Jason. To make sure you keep getting these emails, please add [email protected] to your address book or whitelist us. Want out of the loop? . Our postal address: 151 Calle de San Francisco, Suite 200 - PMB 5072, San Juan, PR 00901