diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 585d6b3d..15255756 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1 +1,22 @@
 # Example MLflow project
+
+
+## Run Locally
+
+Clone the project
+
+```bash
+  git clone https://github.com/mlflow/mlflow-example.git
+```
+
+Run the project and track the metrics with mlflow ui
+
+```bash
+  mlflow ui
+```
+
+make sure you are inside the mlflow-example directory
+```bash
+  mlflow run . 
+```
+
diff --git a/train.py b/train.py
index 26765faf..f9d9cb23 100644
--- a/train.py
+++ b/train.py
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ def eval_metrics(actual, pred):
         print("  MAE: %s" % mae)
         print("  R2: %s" % r2)
 
-        mlflow.log_param("alpha", alpha)
+        mlflow.log_param("alpha", int(alpha))
         mlflow.log_param("l1_ratio", l1_ratio)
         mlflow.log_metric("rmse", rmse)
         mlflow.log_metric("r2", r2)