Data Science in 30 Minutes: Reinforcement Learning and Multi-Armed Bandits
To view the talk that goes along with this repo, click here.
Installation Using Anaconda
Create environment
conda env create -f environment.yml
Activate environment
source activate RLtalk
Set up Twitter API credentials
In order to run the streaming Twitter examples, you will need a set of developer keys stored in a file called keys.txt. Go here to get your own credentials.
Credits
The talk was created by Brian Farris for a DS30 webinar by The Data Incubator (github). Brian Farris is a data scientist at Capital One Labs in New York. He was a Data Incubator Fellow in the Spring 2015 NYC cohort. Prior to this he was a postdoc in computational astrophysics at Columbia and NYU, working on simulations of the environments around binary black holes. He received his PhD in Physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
About The Data Incubator
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