Comprehensive Machine Learning Roadmap
Below is a visual representation of the roadmap:
1. Mathematics for Machine Learning
- Linear Algebra: Vectors, matrices, dot products, matrix multiplication,
eigenvalues/eigenvectors.
- Probability and Statistics: Basics of probability, conditional probability, Bayes'
theorem, distributions, expectation, variance.
- Calculus: Derivatives, partial derivatives, gradients, chain rule.
- Optimization: Gradient descent, stochastic gradient descent (SGD), convex
optimization.
2. Programming Skills
- Python basics: Functions, loops, data structures.
- Libraries: NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib/Seaborn.
3. Data Preprocessing and Exploration
- Handling missing data, outliers, and duplicates.
- Feature scaling: normalization and standardization.
- Encoding categorical variables: One-Hot and Label Encoding.
- Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA).
4. Machine Learning Basics
- Supervised Learning: Linear Regression, Logistic Regression, Decision Trees, Support
Vector Machines (SVM), k-Nearest Neighbors (kNN).
- Unsupervised Learning: k-Means, Hierarchical Clustering, Principal Component
Analysis (PCA).
- Key Concepts: Overfitting, underfitting, bias-variance tradeoff, model evaluation
metrics.
5. Model Evaluation and Tuning
- Cross-validation.
- Hyperparameter tuning: Grid Search, Random Search.
- Regularization: L1, L2, Elastic Net.
6. Advanced Machine Learning
- Ensemble Learning: Random Forests, Gradient Boosting (XGBoost, LightGBM).
- Time Series Analysis: ARIMA, LSTMs.
- Natural Language Processing (NLP): Text preprocessing, TF-IDF, Bag of Words, Word
Embeddings.
7. Real-World Projects
- Predict house prices (Regression).
- Classify emails as spam or not spam (Classification).
- Cluster customers based on purchasing behavior (Clustering).
- Sentiment analysis on tweets (NLP).
8. Tools and Best Practices
- Using Jupyter Notebooks for experimentation.
- Version control with Git and GitHub.
- Writing clean and modular code.
9. Continuous Learning
- Follow ML blogs, YouTube channels, and newsletters.
- Read research papers for state-of-the-art methods.
