NOTE: Please register via the form below by Oct. 18th to be considered. Thank you!

Form for registration: http://bit.ly/2y9ctIS

Back by popular demand, Metis NYC will be hosting One Day at Bootcamp to give you a chance to see what the experience is really like!
Youll receive free, interactive training in Python, focusing on Pandas & SciKit Learn from Metis Senior Data Scientist, Sophie Searcy.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The curriculum is designed for those familiar with Python data structures, loops, functions, & other common programming requirements.

Please register via the form only if you plan to attend - seats are limited & in high demand.

Required prerequisites:

Familiarity with beginner Python

Computer with Anaconda installed

Schedule:

-10:00 - 10:30 - Setup & Orientation

- 10:30 - 11:00 - Intro to Machine Learning

- 11:00 - 12:00 - Intro to Pandas

- 12:00 - 1:00 - Lunch

- 1:00 - 1:20 - Intro to Regression

- 1:20 - 3:00 - Predicting House Prices with Regression

After a brief introduction to the concepts of machine learning, we'll dive into a hands-on session with Pandas to wrangle data.

After lunch, we'll reconvene & focus on the basic theory of linear regression & how to apply it in a practical way. We'll use a dataset about house prices in Iowa to learn to make useful predictions.

About the Metis Instructor:

Sophie Searcy comes to Metis from Elektra, a wearable startup that is replacing haptics with electricity. At Elektra she was cofounder & CTO, designing everything from the electronics to the framework for analyzing data. Before that she worked in the CoDaS lab at Rutgers where she combined cognitive science & theoretical computer science to build models of how people & machines teach & learn. She holds masters degrees in Electrical & Computer Engineering & Psychology. She is passionate about teaching, both in theory & in practice, & about making sure that data science is primarily a tool that is used to improve people's lives.

About Metis

Metis (thisismetis.com) accelerates careers in data science by providing full-time immersive bootcamps, evening part-time professional development courses, online resources, & corporate programs based in Seattle, New York, Chicago, & San Francisco.

Brought to you by Kaplan, Metis focuses primarily on Python, machine learning, data visualization, deep learning, big data processing, statistical foundations, & more. Students & alumni of the bootcamp program receive continuous support from our career advisors, empowering them to pursue a successful career in the fast-growing field of data science.

Learn more about us at (https://thisismetis.com).

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