Possible merging of Netherlands eScience Center materials

[svenvanderburg]

At the Netherlands eScience Center we have taught quite a similar machine learning lesson a few times now. The material that we use works quite well so we are progressing in making it more usable for the community.

The current material can be found here. To get a grasp of it, you can best skim through the notebooks that are the backbone of the workshop.

We are converting the material to a carpentries-style lesson here.

I know you recently discussed the wildgrowth of ML and DL lessons out there in ML lesson dev meeting where @dafnevk from our center was present. See also this small review of existing material that is related to our material. (Apologies if it is too dutch and direct 😅 we definitely appreciate all your and others contributions out there!)

What I propose:

• We continue porting our materials to a carpentries-style lesson
• Let's discuss whether these 2 lessons should co-exist in parallel or we should bundle our forces. I have the feeling the aims of the 2 lessons are slightly different. Our workshop is more 'Introduction to applied machine learning with scikitlearn for researchers', whereas this workshop is more 'Understanding machine learning'. It seems like you teach the lesson more to students then to researchers, correct?

[svenvanderburg]

@colinsauze would you like to discuss in a video call? I work on tuesdays and wednesdays. I could for example meet 6 or 7th of September between 8:00 and 14:00 (CEST).

[svenvanderburg]

See https://github.com/esciencecenter-digital-skills/lesson-machine-learning-intro/commit/a7ca3ddaa302023e21a596368d127113b1037c9f we halted the development of this lesson.