Date
Monday, 30 Apr 2018 6:00 PM
This month we welcome longtime community member, volunteer, and leader Guy Royse, who will be talking about Machine Learning for Fun: Finding Bigfoot with the Nexosis API.
Bigfoot has been a staple of American folklore since the 19th century. The stories originate from Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest and likely go back centuries or more. The term sasquatch itself is an Anglicized derivative of the Halkomelem word sĂĄsqâets.
Many people are convinced that Bigfoot is real. Others suggest that he is a cultural phenomenon. Some just want to believe. There is even a group, the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, that tracks Bigfoot sightings. They have dataâ thousands of reportsâavailable on the Internet. And, where there is data, we can apply the power of machine learning.
Letâs get to the bottom of this mystery! To do it, we are going to use the Nexosis Machine Learning API. With the API, weâll forecast the predicted number of sightings for the coming months and years. Weâll measure the impact of key cultural phenomenaâprimarily the airing of the X-Filesâon Bigfoot sightings. And, weâll see if we can classify some Bigfoot sightings of our own using natural language processing.
So, come and learn how to use the API, the types of problems you can solve with it, and how to use it from your favorite programming language.
The truth is out there.
Afterwards we’ll be heading to Brazenhead on 5th.
