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VDCI

Python Machine Learning Advanced

via VDCI

Overview

Learn natural language processing with Flask as you clean text, perform sentiment analysis, integrate live APIs, and deploy a fully functional movie recommender app.

Syllabus

1. NLP & Sentiment Analysis

Environment Setup & NLP Fundamentals

  • VS Code environment configuration, NLP libraries installation
  • Tokenization, stopword removal, stemming, lemmatization
  • Text representation with Bag of Words and TF-IDF

Sentiment Analysis Project

  • Logistic Regression for sentiment classification
  • Data splitting, model evaluation metrics (accuracy, precision, recall, confusion matrix)

2. Recommendation Systems

Collaborative Filtering

  • User-based and item-based filtering
  • Cosine similarity for personalized recommendations

Content-Based Movie Recommender

  • Vectorizing text using TF-IDF
  • Implementing content similarity algorithms

3. Flask App for Recommendations

Building an ML-Powered Web App

  • Flask basics and web serving
  • Developing a recommendation system Flask app

4. Forecasting & Deep Learning

Time Series with Facebook Prophet

  • Trend forecasting and visualization (e.g., market prices)

Deep Learning with PyTorch

  • CNN basics, image classification using the CIFAR-10 dataset
  • Model training, accuracy assessment, and confusion matrix interpretation

5. Object Detection

Real-Time Object Detection with YOLO

  • Image detection and labeling with pretrained models
  • Adapting YOLO models to video streams and real-time webcam input

Taught by

Garfield Stinvil, Colin Jaffe, and Brian McClain

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