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by skadamat 2883 days ago
This is something we're striving hard to do at the startup I'm involved with (end-to-end resources for learning machine learning, with just high school math background assumed).

In our Data Scientist Track (https://www.dataquest.io/path/data-scientist?), I specifically focused on teaching K-nearest neighbors first b/c it has minimal math but you can still teach ML concepts like cross-validation, and then I wrote Linear Algebra and Calculus courses before diving into Linear Regression.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/lh23y44dsg96xpv/Screenshot%202018-...