So What's the Story?
Channel: PyCon South Africa
Date: 12/10/2018

Kerryn Gammie

https://2018.za.pycon.org/talks/64-so-whats-the-story/

‹h2›As the world's data grows, so does its aptitude for AI.‹/h2› 
In the context of business, however, translating black-box-magic into something more accessible for business-users to engage with is tricky. While this speaks to a larger problem of upskilling and making education more accessible, one method of translation is through story telling. 

I learn best when an ‹strong›idea is relatable, simple, and colourful‹/strong›. This talk is going to look at how to convey complex ideas simply.  I'm going to be covering two sections: 

‹ul›
    ‹li›1. That's So Random (Forests)!‹/li›
    ‹li›2. You Gotta (Neural) Network to Get Work‹/li›
‹/ul›

I'll run through the high level concepts and methodologies, and then show the work/code that was done to create a random forest, and a neural network. Note: this will cover how I built the RF, and NN using Python via Jupyter Notebook.

This session is for anyone who uses/wants to use ML to solve problems but struggles with translating the black-box-magic. 
It's going to be an engaging, and slightly animated, talk with the intention of reinforcing concepts and showcasing different ways of explaining them.

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