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Welcome Hacker Dojo Machine Learning Class Fall 2010

 

Organizer: Doug Chang

Instructors: Dr. Michael Bowles & Dr. Patricia Hoffman

 

We've put together a calendar for the next three machine learning courses that we're going to teach.  Our objective for the sequence is to enable you to read the current literature, to implement algorithms based on what you read and to extend or modify methods in the current machine learning oeuvre in order to suit the needs of your particular problems.  The first course in this sequence will cover basic techniques in ML at sufficient depth that you will be able to immediately apply the techniques you've learned to real problems. 

 

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. References for R are here: References for R Comment on these references here:  Reference for R Comments  More R references

 

Easy access to The Google Group 

 

 Click here for  Upcoming Machine Learning Events

 

Interesting Competition

 

General Calendar for the Year:

 

Fall 2010: Basic Machine Learning  

Book:  Introduction to Data Mining by Pang-Ning Tan et al

 

Winter  2010:  Advanced Machine Learning

Books:  Professor Andrew Ng's lecture notes from CS229 and Elements of Statistical Learning, Hastie et al

 

Spring 2011:   Extended Machine Learning Project (Competition)

 

 

Complete Outline for the first Course (Fall 2010):

 

1st Week  
 
22-Sep Chapter 1 & 2                                       Notes For First Week
Papers
23-Sep Chapter 3  
2nd Week  
 
29-Sep Chapter 4                                                Notes for 2nd Week

HW #1 Due

HomeworkAssignment01.doc

HW # 1  HW1.pdf

30-Sep Chapter 4   
3rd Week  
 
6-Oct Simple Regression                                 Notes for  Week 03

HW # 2 Due

Homework02.doc

Homework02.pdf

7-Oct Ridge Regression & k Nearest Neighbors
 
4rd Week  
 
13-Oct

Chapter 5                                                                 Week04

finish k Nearest Neighbors

Naive Bayes

HW #3 Due

Homework03.doc Homework03.pdf

14-Oct

Chapter 5

Support Vector Machines

 
5th Week  
 
20-Oct

Chapter 5 Week05

finish SVM

Start Ensemble Methods

HW #4 Due

Homework04.doc

Homework04.pdf

 

21-Oct

Chapter 5

Finish Ensemble Methods

 
6th Week  
 
27-Oct

Chapter 5  Week06

Class Imbalance

HW #5 Due

Homework05.doc  Homework05.pdf

28-Oct Chapter 6  
7th Week  
 
3-Nov Chapter 6

HW #6 Due

Homework06.doc  Homework06.pdf

4-Nov Chapter 8 Cluster Analysis  
 
   
8th Week  
 
10-Nov Chapter 8 Cluster Analysis HW #6 Due
11-Nov Papers  
Nov 13th Data Mining Camp
9th Week
 
 
17-Nov Papers Chapter 9  
18-Nov Chapter 9  
10th Week  
1-Dec Chapter 10 HW # 7 Due
2-Dec Chapter 10  
 
 
 

 

Lectures are in the Lectures Folder

Homeworks are in the Homework Folder

DataFiles

 

Topics for the Second Course (Winter 2010):

 

1.  Logistic Regression

2.  Markov Decision Process

3.  Advanced Regression

-LARS, Elastic Net, Generalised Linear Model, Generalised Additive Model

4.  Trees

-Regularisation, Ensemble Methods, MART, Boosting, Bagging, Random Forest

5.  SVM

-Regression

6.  Expectation Maximisation

7.  Principal Component Analysis

 

We will be using the following text as a reference for the Second Course:

 

"The Elements of Statistical Learning - Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction"  by Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, and Jerome Friedman.
This book is free to look at on line.  http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn

 

There are more Machine Learning References on my web site http://patriciahoffmanphd.com/

 

If you are in the Fall Class, please fill out the form

https://spreadsheets.google.com/embeddedform?formkey=dFVJbHZkVURWeVhqbFl2OTdhZ0JxNEE6MQ

 

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