You gotta start somewhere. I’ve signed myself up for a 3 day intensive course in May to make that initial step. I am currently keeping this open while reading journal articles on my beloved graphene. I am suddenly so grateful to astronomy for tending to be written in English as opposed to Dingbat 
The person I mentioned has said he is happy to help. He has asked if you have signed up to Kaggle (as apparently there is a forum there for ML which is very helpful). If you have any questions I am happy to pass them over.
This is the feel good story of Spring. Good on y’all.
Training an ML algorithm for a 9th grade science project is pretty cool as well
Gauri I have sent you the email address of the person I mentioned earlier through the message function on this website. He is happy to help and answer any questions you have.
Best of luck with the fair.
Hi everyone,
I have since improved on the ML model to find gravitational lenses, and I think I found more strong candidates: Gravitational Lens Possible Candidates - Google Docs
I was wondering if anyone could confirm that these look like possible lenses? The cutouts are from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
Thanks!
Gauri
Hi Gauri,
I have had a little look through them. The model appears to have improved - one definite (looks likely + in literature) lens there and 2 that look very interesting and hopeful to me. It would be helpful if someone experienced just checked those 2 (they have large messages affixed to them) and added their thoughts (free to edit document from link). The first one especially seems to have a very interesting deep red ring around it as shown below and seems to me to very possibly be a very nice lensing candidate.
Feel free to ask anything.
Best of luck,
Niko
Deep red ring - lensing seems very possible and interesting here.