🧵🗺️ 🦌 💻 A little thread about #MachineLearning education in ecology.
This fall, I am teaching an ML class based on species distributions. Yesterday's activity was a little game where we kept the same data and tweaked the model to see which combination of data preparation and classifier we could use and whether we "liked" the results. It was, essentially, a computer-assisted vibe check.
The data look like this: