Women in Data Science (WiDS) 2018 Workshop A short course on the basics of data science and machine learning. Tools & languages used: python, scikit-learn and pandas. Data from Hubway Bike Rentals is used as a real life running example throughout the course. Part 1: data exploration, data visualization, feature engineering, missing data Exercise and Solution Part 2: modeling, logistic regression, SVM, decision trees, ensemble methods Part 3: model evaluation, over-fitting, cross-validation, choice of model class