Machine learning might seem like an intimidating topic. But in the first workshop of the year, we introduced the essence of machine learning with a fun, interactive activity. It featured a sorting hat that classified students by their name into groups by an unknown rule. Students learned that by using the hat’s input and output data to try to guess its mysterious rule, they were playing the role of a classification algorithm.
Afterwards, students had the opportunity to compete in a Kaggle challenge featuring the same sorting hat, but with a more complex rule.
