Hey Alexandria! Sounds like an interesting project. I think you’ll have an easier time adapting Google Colab for your presentation and classwork. You can iterate on models with free GPU/TPU acceleration. I think the limit is 12 hours of continuous training.

https://colab.research.google.com/notebooks/intro.ipynb#recent=true

Sounds like you want to frame your research as a classification problem, and need example code to get started? I’d recommend Hands On Machine Learning by Aurelien Geron.

https://github.com/ageron/handson-ml2