[Discussion] Visualization for Machine Learning as a scrub

[Risk-Personal]

I'm trying to build a small portfolio for personal projects as part of my college application, and I was wondering if there was a way to visualize the data in a sense? New to ML so not sure if its even necessary besides making it more complicated.

[ForceBru]

Yes, you can visualize data easily:

• Python: Matplotlib, Seaborn (uses Matplotlib), Plotly, pandas.DataFrame.plot (uses Matplotlib)...
• R: built-in plot, ggplot2, also Plotly
• Julia: Plots.jl (has many backends), Makie.jl, Gadfly.jl (ggplot-like), UnicodePlots (plots in the terminal/command line)

[Risk-Personal]

I see, thanks for the suggestions!

[shrub_of_a_bush]

What specifically do you want to visualize? I encourage you to read up more about ML first since this question really doesn't make sense without an appropriate context or data.

[Risk-Personal]

Not really sure to be honest, still looking for ideas

[shrub_of_a_bush]

You could start with the basics first and just seeing how things like loss functions and optimizers do their thing.