Predict rocket launch delays with machine learning

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Free Online Course: Predict rocket launch delays with machine learning provided by Microsoft Learn is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 1-2 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge.

Overview
    • Module 1: Get an introduction to how NASA chooses dates for a rocket launch and discover machine learning fundamentals.
    • In this module, you'll begin to discover:

      • The challenges weather can pose for a rocket launch
      • The data science lifecycle
      • How machine learning works
      • The role ethics play in machine learning

      Tip

      This module is part of a multimodal learning experience. Start the module to see how you can follow along!

    • Module 2: Learn about the steps to import data into Python and clean the data for use in creating machine learning models.
    • In this module, you will:

      • Explore weather data on days crewed and uncrewed rockets were launched
      • Explore weather data on the days surrounding launch days
      • Clean the data in preparation for training the machine learning model

      Tip

      This module is part of a multimodal learning experience. Start the module to see how you can follow along!

    • Module 3: In this module you focus on a local analysis of your data by using scikit-learn, and use a decision tree classifier to gain knowledge from raw weather and rocket launch data.
    • In this module, you'll begin to discover:

      • The importance of column choosing.
      • How to split data to effectively train and test a machine learning algorithm.
      • How to train, test, and score a machine learning algorithm.
      • How to visualize a tree classification model.

      Tip

      This module is part of a multimodal learning experience. Start the module to see how you can follow along!

Syllabus
    • Module 1: Introduction to rocket launches
      • Introduction
      • Data to predict weather years in advance
      • Launch day weather analysis
      • Machine learning and the data science lifecycle
      • Set a goal and get expertise
      • Collect, clean, and manipulate data
      • Choose an algorithm and train and test your model
      • Deploy your machine learning model
      • How humans and machine learning models learn
      • Ethics in data science and machine learning
      • Knowledge check
      • Summary
    • Module 2: Data collection and manipulation
      • Introduction
      • Determine the rocket launch questions to ask
      • Explore the rocket launch data to gain an understanding
      • Exercise - Import Python libraries and rocket launch data
      • Exercise - Clean weather data to analyze rocket launch criteria
      • Exercise - Consider additional data to include
      • Knowledge check
      • Summary
    • Module 3: Build a machine learning model
      • Introduction
      • Exercise - Determine columns to include in a machine learning model
      • Exercise - Choose the machine learning algorithm to predict rocket launch success
      • Exercise - Split data into training and testing datasets
      • Exercise - Train and test the machine learning model to predict rocket launch success
      • Exercise - Score the machine learning model that predicts rocket launch success
      • Exercise - Visualize the machine learning model
      • Exercise - Predict the success of a rocket launch using machine learning
      • Knowledge check
      • Summary