INF2-FDS: Labs
Lab sessions will be held weekly in AT in the first part of Semester 1. You will be assigned to one lab session that will appear in your personal timetable. If you can't make your lab session for any reason, it's OK to drop in to another one, as long as there is space. You can find all the lab times in the FDS Semester 1 Timetable.
The Week 1 lab has general instructions on getting started, which will also be available in the Week 1 lab session as a handout. The links to each week's lab session will appear in course materials.
You have a choice of ways to run the labs:
- The University of Edinburgh Notable service - you just need a web browser for it to work. We recommend and support this method.
- Setting up a python/Jupyter environment - should work on a DICE machine or your own machine. We can't guarantee to be able to support you with this method.
It's important to do the labs; they are designed to help you achieve learning outcomes 1 and 2 and to contribute towards your understanding of concepts and applications in machine learning, linear models and statistical inference. We strongly suggest that you do the labs with a partner, as a paired programming exercise.
A student in a previous year commented:
Do the labs and type them yourselves. I often referred to the solutions, because I didn't really know how to handle things, but I always typed things myself and thus I am learning a lot. This really showed in the final project!