Dominique Guillot (EWG 534)
University of Delaware
Spring 2017
MW 5:00PM – 6:15PM, Room: TBA
The course provides an introduction to the fundamental techniques used in data science. The main objective of the course is to develop a good practical knowledge and a mathematical understanding of the common tools that are used to analyse modern datasets. The course also provides hands-on experience in data analysis through practical homework and class projects.
Detailed syllabus.
An Introduction to Statistical Learning by James, Witten, Hastie, and Tibshirani.
The pdf of the book is available for free at http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/.
Lecture notes will be posted prior to the lectures.
| Topic | Reading | Slides | Printable slides | |||
| Week 1 | 02/06/2017 | Lecture 1 | Overview | Chapter 1 | ||
| 02/08/2017 | Lab 1 | Intro to R | code | |||
| Week 2 | 02/13/2017 | Lecture 2 | Linear Regression | Chapters 2,3 | ||
| 02/15/2017 | Lab 2 | Subset selection | Chapter 6.1 | code | ||
| Week 3 | 02/20/2017 | Lecture 3 | Lasso, Cross-validation | Chapters 5.1, 6.2 | ||
| 02/22/2017 | Lab 3 | Lasso Lab | code | |||
| Week 4 | 02/27/2017 | Lecture 4 | Categorial variables | Chapters 3.5, 4.1,4.2,4.3 | ||
| 03/01/2017 | Lab 4 | kNN, logistic regression | code | |||
| Week 5 | 03/06/2017 | Lecture 5 | Logistic regression, LDA | Chapters 4.3, 4.4, 4.5 | ||
| 03/08/2017 | Lab 5 | Mult. Normal, Logistic | code | |||
| Week 6 | 03/13/2017 | Lecture 6 | Support vector machines | Chapters 9.1, 9.2 | ||
| 03/15/2017 | Lab 6 | One-vs-all classification | code | |||
| Week 7 | 03/20/2017 | Lecture 7 | SVM and kernels | Chapter 9.3 | ||
| Week 8 | Spring break | |||||
| Week 9 | 04/03/2017 | Lecture 8 | PCA | Chapter 10.1, 10.2 | ||
| 04/05/2017 | Lab 7 | PCA | code | |||
| Week 10 | 04/10/2017 | Lecture 9 | Neural Networks | |||
| 04/12/2017 | Lab 8 | Neural networks | ||||
| Week 11 | 04/17/2017 | Lecture 10 | Decision Trees | Chapter 8 | ||
| 04/19/2017 | Lab 9 | Chapter 8.3 | code | |||
| Week 12 | 04/24/2017 | Lecture 11 | Random Forests | Chapter 8.2 | ||
| 04/26/2017 | Lab 10 | |||||
| Week 13 | 05/01/2017 | Lecture 12 | K-means | Chapter 10.3 | ||
| 05/03/2017 | Lab 11 | code | ||||
| Week 14 | 05/08/2017 | Lecture 13 | Spectral Clustering | |||
| 05/10/2017 | Lab 12 | Clustering | code | |||