Machine Learning and Data Analytics

Teaching in summer term

The course Machine Learning and Data Analytics is composed of lectures and exercises. Lectures and exercises follow the Inverted Classroom paradigm. Recordings of lectures and exercises are made available and are accompanied by live lecture and exercise c lasses. Please note: Recordings and other material will remain available until the end of the semester. Live sessions (lectures and exercises) are not recorded. During the live sessions, specific questions regarding the subjects treated in the recordings will be answered, there will be time for discussions, and the solutions to quizzes will be commented . Detailed information about lecture and exercise live sessions will be made available via Moodle.

Content

The science of learning plays a key role in the fields of statistics, data mining, and artificial intelligence, intersecting with areas of engineering and other disciplines.
This introductory course on machine learning will provide an overview of many concepts, techniques and algorithms for learning from data. These methods can be classified into supervised and unsupervised learning. In supervised learning, the goal is to predict the value of an outcome measure based on a number of input measures. Some of the methodologies belonging to this category are: linear regression and logistic regression, boosting, and support vector machines. In unsupervised learning, there is no outcome measure, and the goal is to describe the associations and patterns among a set of input measures. Among the methodologies of unsupervised learning, there are: clustering, outlier detection, dimensionality reduction, and association methods. Ways of assessing the effectiveness of these methods will be presented, together with practical problems which will be solved through the use of Python3 Jupyter Notebook.

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