SVM and Feature Selection

Practical session

For the practical session, you need to install jupyter in order to work on the notebook. You also need the last scikit-learn version v0.19.

Install

For Unix based systems, if you already have python3 and its package manager pip3 you just have to execute these lines.

sudo -H pip3 install jupyter
sudo -H pip3 install scikit-learn

If you just want to upgrade a package, just type:

sudo -H pip3 install -U scikit-learn

For Windows, You can either:

• install python3 and pip3 and add them to your %PATH%;
• or just install anaconda for python3 form here.

To run the notebook, you just have to go to the right directory and launch it via:

$ cd /path/to/folder
$ jupyter notebook