A little background: BS degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science, and am a reasonably experienced software developer. I spend most of my free time writing software or doing math.
I have recently been going through the Coursera Machine Learning course and have found the subject to be really awesome. I have found a few nice data sets that I have been playing around with, and have started diving into a textbook (Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning by Bishop). It is going to take me a long time to get through it, though.
In the meantime, does anyone have any ideas for projects that could use novice-level skills in machine learning but also have a large software development component? It seems like there is only a small portion of "data scientists" that have significant software development experiences, so I am hoping that there is some interesting low-hanging fruit here.
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