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Overview

A structured self-study challenge that walks ML end-to-end, from NumPy fundamentals to transformers and GANs. Three phases, capstone projects between them, so each phase forces a synthesis before moving on.

Progress

46/100 days complete. Phase 1 and Phase 2 done, Phase 3 in progress.

  • Phase 1 — Data Foundations (Days 1–15): NumPy/pandas, missing data, outliers, feature engineering, PCA, EDA, time series, geospatial. Capstone: rain prediction on Australian weather data.
  • Phase 2 — Classical ML (Days 16–40): regression, trees, random forests, XGBoost, SVMs, KNN, clustering (K-Means, DBSCAN, hierarchical, GMM), ensembles, SHAP interpretability. Capstone: loan default prediction on Lending Club data.
  • Phase 3 — Deep Learning (Days 41–60): neural networks, CNNs, transfer learning, augmentation, object detection, RNNs, transformers, GloVe, autoencoders, VAEs, GANs, U-Nets, autonomous perception, RL basics.

Why this format

The capstones between phases are the point. It’s easy to work through tutorials and feel like you understand something; it’s harder to build an end-to-end pipeline that has to run. Requiring a synthesis project before moving on makes gaps visible — feature engineering isn’t a concept until I’ve built a pipeline for it, SHAP isn’t understood until I’ve explained it on my own model.

Rain prediction (Day 15). Binary classification on Australian weather. Missing data handling → encoding → feature scaling → model selection.

Loan default prediction (Days 38–40). End-to-end pipeline on Lending Club data: EDA → feature engineering → hyperparameter tuning → SHAP interpretability → production pipeline. Standalone repo.

Stack

  • Languages: Python
  • ML: scikit-learn, XGBoost, LightGBM
  • Deep learning: PyTorch, TensorFlow/Keras
  • Data: pandas, NumPy
  • Viz: matplotlib, seaborn
  • Interpretability: SHAP