Scikit-learn Sprint

• WiMLDS Meetup Event (March 4, 2017)

• Check out the interview:
  Interview with Andreas Mueller, Lecturer at Columbia University and Core Contributor to Scikit-Learn, by Reshama Shaikh

Sponsors:

• Space Sponsored by Stack Exchange
• Refreshments sponsored by Bloomberg

Host:

• Andreas Mueller (Twitter: @amuellerml) (Webpage: http://amueller.github.io/)

Teaching Assistants:

• Vighnesh Nandan Birodkar
• Ritesh Bansal

Organizer:

• Reshama Shaikh

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Preparation

1. GitHub Account

• Open an account on GitHub
• some familiarity with Git / GitHub
• review some Git resources prior to event
• we'll go over pull requests at beginning of event

2. Join Gitter

Join the [scikit-learn Gitter community]

• scikit-learn
• wimlds

3. Read thru documentation

• scikit-learn Contributing documentation
• it is approximately 16 pages

4. Review Open Issues

• scikit-learn repository
• There are over 750 issues. For the sprint, we will focus on issues with the labels: easy and Need Contributor
• go through some 'easy'-label open issues and become familiar with them

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Twitter

Please feel free to take photos and tweet about the event.

WiMLDS: @wimlds

Stack Exchange: @StackExchange

Andreas Mueller: @amuellerml

scikit-learn: @scikit_learn

Blog

• Blog by Noemi Derzsy: http://wimlds.org/noemi-derzsy-scikit-learn-sprint/