ML project for a high school student
My son is in 11th grade and he intends to do an ML project as part of his 12th grade curriculum. He wants to compare different supervised ML algorithms to predict which team wins a sport event and conclude which algo is the closest. He will have access to about 3 to 5 years of data. He being a newbie and I have not done much ML code either, how hard is it to do this project? He will spend time over the summer to learn some of this stuff. What kind of access does he need? Will he be able to do on his laptop in Visual source code and by downloading necessary python libraries? This work is for a high schooler and not a professional tech employer. That being the case, he probably only needs about 5 to 10 Columns to track per team. What other things to keep in mind for him to complete this project? #datascience #data
let him smoke weed and do drugs instead
Sklearn is a great Python library for his case. If you can help him plug in the data in the algo or just hire a soft dev (with some basic ML understanding) to implement these supervised algo, should be enough. I do think that's a bit advance if he's trying to learn the underlying algorithms unless he's very accelerated in the math. Understanding the high level idea of the algo is enough and just view it as a black box.
One the one hand, your son can definitely do it. On the other hand, it shows you how little of an edge a professional has, especially a mediocre one.
Fact that he didn’t do an ML project until this late of an age is surprising lol. Just gather data, put into a csv, and run some models using sklearn. Not much code, ChatGPT can literally do that entire thing. If he wants to learn more, dig deep into what each of these models do. Lot of material online
He’s in high school. What do you mean surprising 😂. Gotta let kids be kids.
FACT, this is the kind of project for kids 11 or 12 years old, not grade 11. Sorry OP, your child is not making it into openai