Machine Learning


For Geomodeling

Hervé Gross, PhD - Reservoir Engineer

Advanced Resources and Risk Technology
hgross@ar2tech.com

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Class objectives and outline

GOAL
Provide the essential skills to understand and apply modern data analysis tools
(machine learning) to problems commonly found in geomodeling

OUTLINE
o Dimensionality reduction
o Unsupervised learning: Clustering
o Supervised Learning: Classification and regression
o Data visualization
o Connection to AR2GEMS

PRE-REQUISITE
o Basic of programming
o A basic Python primer will be covered to ensure that everyone has the minimal
skills required to perform exercises
o Based on Scikit-learn (state-of-the-art Machine Learning in Python)

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Organization

Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4

Student presentations
9:00 - 12:00 Intro to Python Unsupervised Learning Supervised Learning
and individual requests

12:00 - 13:00 LUNCH

Dimensionality Unsupervised Learning Supervised Learning

13:00 - 16:00 Extra time
Reduction Working Session Working Session

The class is designed to be hands-on

Exercises will be done in groups of 2-3 students
Each group will submit a report with the question answers and their source code
The same data set will be used for all exercises

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Class Introductions

Name, department, level

Motivation for taking the class
Python expertise level (0: never done any, 5: Jedi master)
Prior experience with machine learning

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Ex. 1: Try machine learning!

Point your web browser to http://playground.tensorflow.org

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References

http://playground.tensorflow.org

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