{"id":12,"date":"2020-08-09T15:37:19","date_gmt":"2020-08-09T19:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macloo.com\/ai\/?p=12"},"modified":"2020-08-24T12:09:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T16:09:39","slug":"getting-thrown-into-machine-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macloo.com\/ai\/2020\/08\/09\/getting-thrown-into-machine-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting thrown into machine learning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Early in 2018, I had several senior journalism students who wanted to learn about machine learning. I knew nothing about it, and they knew that, and we plowed forward together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The three student teams chose these topics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Sentiment analysis on subreddits for NBA teams<\/li><li>Analysis of county court documents naming our university<\/li><li>Analysis of tweets by one news organization for audience reactions, engagements<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We quickly learned that knowing Python was a big plus. (Fortunately, we all knew Python.) Each of the teams found a different Python library to work with, and after a few weeks, projects were completed and demonstrated \u2014 although desired results were not achieved in all cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I crammed information mainly from two sources \u2014 a YouTube video series called <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLOU2XLYxmsIIuiBfYad6rFYQU_jL2ryal\" target=\"_blank\">Machine Learning Recipes with Josh Gordon<\/a>, and something I&#8217;ve lost that explained in detail how a model was trained on the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kaggle.com\/uciml\/iris\" target=\"_blank\">Iris Data Set<\/a>. These provided a surprisingly solid foundation for <em>beginning<\/em> to understand how today&#8217;s machine learning projects are done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube aligncenter wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hello World - Machine Learning Recipes #1\" width=\"739\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cKxRvEZd3Mw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.macloo.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/iris_data.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.macloo.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/iris_data.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.macloo.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/iris_data-300x178.png 300w, https:\/\/www.macloo.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/iris_data-768x456.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption><em>Above: Histograms and features from the Iris Data Set<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since then, I&#8217;ve continued to read casually about AI and machine learning. As more and more articles have appeared in the general press and news reports about face recognition and self-driving cars (among other topics related to AI), it&#8217;s become clear to me that journalism students need to know more about these technologies \u2014 if for no other reason than to avoid being bamboozled by buzzword-spewing politicians or tech-company flacks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since May 2020, I&#8217;ve been collecting resources, reading and researching, with an intention to teach a course about AI for communications students in spring 2021. This new blog is going to help me organize and prioritize articles, posts, videos, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If it helps other people get a handle on AI, so much the better!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" style=\"border-width:0\" src=\"https:\/\/i.creativecommons.org\/l\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/88x31.png\"><\/a><br>\n<small><span xmlns:dct=\"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/terms\/\" property=\"dct:title\"><strong>AI in Media and Society<\/strong><\/span> by <span xmlns:cc=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/ns#\" property=\"cc:attributionName\">Mindy McAdams<\/span> is licensed under a <a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License<\/a>.<br>\nInclude the author&#8217;s name (Mindy McAdams) and a link to the original post in any reuse of this content.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early in 2018, I had several senior journalism students who wanted to learn about machine learning. I knew nothing about it, and they knew that, and we plowed forward together. The three student teams chose these topics: Sentiment analysis on subreddits for NBA teams Analysis of county court documents naming our university Analysis of tweets&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.macloo.com\/ai\/2020\/08\/09\/getting-thrown-into-machine-learning\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Getting thrown into machine learning<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[11,10,9],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-machine-learning","tag-learning","tag-python","tag-teaching"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macloo.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macloo.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macloo.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macloo.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macloo.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.macloo.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"https:\/\/www.macloo.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macloo.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macloo.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macloo.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}