Machine Learning 202

Organizer: Doug Chang

Instructors: Dr. Michael Bowles & Dr. Patricia Hoffman

We will cover several machine learning topics in detail.  Among those are Bayesian Belief Networks, Prof. Jerome Friedman's gradient boosting papers, svd's and recommender systems. 

For Machine Learning 202, we assume you are familiar with basic statistical concepts and have the ability to write programs running different algorithms on public data sets. We assume knowledge at the level of "Introduction to Data Mining" by Tan.  If you have taken our Machine Learning 101, 102 classes and Machine Learning 201, you are well prepared for this course.

We expect you to have previously used R.  We will use R for discussin homework problems and comparing different solution approaches.  .   http://cran.r-project.org/  For your review, R are here: References for R,  Reference for R Comments,  More R references.  To integrate R with Eclipse click here.

Machine Learning 202 Syllabus:  

General Sequence of Classes:

Machine Learning 101:   Learn about ML algorithms and implement them in r  

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

Machine Learning 102:  Enable you to read and implement algorithms from current papers

     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    

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

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

General Calendar for the Year:

Fall 2010: Basic Machine Learning Machine Learning 101 &  Machine Learning 102

Winter  2011:  Machine Learning 101 &  Machine Learning 201

Early Spring 2011:  Machine Learning 102 &  Machine Learning 202

We will be using the following text as a reference for 201 and 202:

"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 Patricia's web site http://patriciahoffmanphd.com/

Be sure to sign up on the meetup page.