Machine Learning: My Journey into AI

Abstract

Soon after starting a new position as a librarian at a data science software company, I saw that my employer was offering a workshop to learn how to do machine learning in the R programming language and I jumped at the chance to learn more about the subject. With support from my boss, I struggled through October and November refreshing my linear regression knowledge (knowledge I’d happily left behind in high school) and bringing my coding skills from near zero to “won’t be embarrassed in front of my colleagues.”