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Georgia Tech has an graduate course on Machine Learning CS-7641. There are four major projects in that course where the students must analyze (and re-analyze) a chosen dataset. Here is an example of the code one student used: https://github.com/JonathanTay/CS-7641-assignment-1 Unfortunately all the plotting code was intentionally removed. Sometimes the project reports make it online (http://www.dudonwai.com/docs/gt-omscs-cs7641-a3.pdf?pdf=gt-o...) . Having spent several months of my life on the assignments I'd say that only way to learn it is to try a whole bunch of different things and try and figure out why some work and why some don't. Sometimes you learn from the failures, sometimes from the unexpected successes.