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Machine Learning 102

 

 

To join this class please buy your tickets at eventbrite: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1293614235 

Instructors: Dr. Michael Bowles & Dr. Patricia Hoffman

 

Overview of the course

Machine Learning 101, deals primarily with supervised learning problems.  Machine Learning 102 will cover unsupervised learning and fault detection. 

 

Both 101 and 102 begin at the level of elementary probability and statistics and from that background survey a broad array of machine learning techniques.  The classes will give participants a working knowledge of these techniques and will leave them prepared to apply those techniques to real problems.  To get the most out of the class, participants will need to work through the homework assignments. 

 

Prerequisites

This class assumes a moderate level of computer programming proficiency.  We will use R (the open source statistics language) for the homework and for the examples in class.  We will cover some of the basics of R and do not assume any prior knowledge of R.  You can find references to how to use R on this website and we will give out sample code during classes that will help get you started. 

 

You'll need some general beginner-level background in probability, calculus, linear algebra and vector calculus.  We will cover most of what is required during the lectures.  The appendices in the back of the Tan text are more than sufficient level for this class. 

 

Machine Learning 101 and 102 can be taken in any any order.  The prerequisites for the two classes are the same.  They second five week session (Machine Learning 102) will culminate in the students giving presentations on papers they have read.

 

Why use R?

We're going to use R as our lingua franca for looking at homework problems, discussing them and comparing different solution approaches.    Load R onto your laptop or desk computer before you come to the first class.   http://cran.r-project.org/  We will include some descriptive material on using R in the first two lectures in order to get everyone up to speed on it. To integrate R with Eclipse click here. References for R are here: References for R Comment on these references here:  Reference for R Comments  More R references

 

Please note that anyone can read this web site, however only the instructors have permission to write on the site.  We welcome new members to the class, but we are not granting permissions to edit this site.

 

General Sequence of Classes:

 

Machine Learning 101:   Supervised learning

Machine Learning 102Unsupervised Learning and Fault Detection

Text: "Introduction to Data Mining", by Pang-Ning Tan, Michael Steinbach and Vipin Kumar

 

Machine Learning 201:    Advanced Regression Techniques, Generalized Linear Models, and Generalized Additive Models    

Machine Learning 202:   Collaborative Filtering, Bayesian Belief Networks, and Advanced Trees

Text:  "The Elements of Statistical Learning - Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction"  by Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, and Jerome Friedman

 

Machine Learning Big Data:  Adaptation and execution of machine learning algorithms in the map reduce framework.

 

 

Future Topics 

     Data Mining Social Networks

     Text Mining

     Recommender Methods

     Big Data

 

Machine Learning 102 Syllabus:  

 

Week  Topics  Homework  Links 
       
1st Week  Support Vector Machines
 
  Week01
     3/12/2011   
   
  Bias - Variance Decomposition     
  Class Imbalance     
 

SVM

Linear & Nonlinear - Separable & Nonseparable

 

   
       
2nd Week      Cluster Analysis - Basic    Week02  
    3/19/2011  k-means  HW #1 Due   
  Hierarchical & Density Clustering     
    3/ 20/2011
Beginning with R  held at Hacker Dojo 8:30 AM - 10:30
   
   
   
3rd Week  Cluster Analysis - Algorithms 
 
 
   4/9/2011  E-M Algorithms  HW #2 Due Week03  
  Discriminant Analysis   
 
       
       
4th Week  Anomaly Detection
  Week04  
    4/16/2011 

One-D statistical methods

HW #3 Due  ML102Homework03.pdf  
  Mahalanobis Distance, one-class SVM
   
  Clustering methods, EM
   
       
5th Week  Anomaly Detection    
April 30 9AM - 1PM
catch up on Week 4 Material   ProjectIdeas  
       

Presentations

May 15th 12 noon - 4 PM

 Special Topics  Class Presentations    

 

 

General Calendar for the Year:

 

Fall 2010: Machine Learning 101 &  Machine Learning 102

 

Winter  2011:  Machine Learning 101 &  Machine Learning 201

 

Spring 2011:  Machine Learning 102 &  Machine Learning 202

 

There are more Machine Learning References on Patricia's web site http://patriciahoffmanphd.com/

 

Anyone can read this web site, however only the instructors have permission to edit the site. 

If you haven't already filled out the class survey form on the meet-up page, please fill out the form now.  If you haven't already signed up on the on the meet-up page please do so now.

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