CS 4786 - Machine Learning for Data Science

(SDS-AS)

Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.

Prerequisite: probability theory (BTRY 3080, ECON 3130, MATH 4710, or strong performance in ENGRD 2700 or equivalent); linear algebra (strong performance in MATH 2940 or equivalent); CS 4780; CS 2110 or equivalent programming proficiency. Co-meets with CS 5786.

Staff.

An introduction to machine learning for data-science applications. Topics include dimensionality-reduction (such as principal components analysis, canonical correlation analysis, and random projection); clustering (such as k-means and single-link); probabilistic modeling (such as mixture models and the EM algorithm).