On: Ask HN: How does a beginner best spend one week of learning machine learning?

[sputknick]

I think you can achieve a lot in a week. the big four for python data libraries are pandas, numpy, scipy, and scikit-learn. scikit-learn will provide the most milage of advancement of knowledge relative to the time investment to learn that knowledge. If you aren't concerned with how effective the results are, you can learn a lot from simple implementations. For example, to implement a basic Random Forest is three lines of code: # create random forest forest = RandomForestClassifier() # train random forest forest = forest.fit(train_data) # test random forest output = forest.predict(test_data)

That's just one example, but all implementations are reasonably easy for someone with your foundation to learn quickly. Now... being good at it... that will be your next challenge :-)