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Scikit-Learn - Or why I joined an open source software project
1. Scikit-Learn
(or why I joined an open source software project)
Gilles Louppe
Dept. of EE & CS, & GIGA-R
Universit´ de Li`ge, Belgium
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October 30, 2013
2. Publishing scientific software matters 1
Software is a central part of modern scientific discovery.
Software developed in one field can often be applied to
advance a different field if the underlying mathematics is
common.
The public availability of code is a corner stone of the
scientific method.
1. Pradal C. et al, Publishing scientific software matters, 2013.
3. if it’s not open and verifiable by others, it’s not science, or
engineering, or whatever it is you call what we do 2
2. V. Stodden, The scientific method in practice.
4. As a young PhD student full of illusions...
I wanted to write useful scientific software, for me and others
6. ... and then I joined an OSS project
An open source Machine Learning library in Python
Classical and well-established algorithms
- Supervised and unsupervised algorithms
- Model evaluation and selection
- Data processing and feature engineering