STAT479: Machine Learning (Fall 2018)

Instructor: Sebastian Raschka

Lecture material for the Machine Learning course (STAT 479) at University Wisconsin-Madison. For details, please see the course website at http://pages.stat.wisc.edu/~sraschka/teaching/stat479-fs2018/

Part I: Introduction

• Lecture 1: What is Machine Learning? An Overview.
• Lecture 2: Intro to Supervised Learning: KNN

Part II: Computational Foundations

• Lecture 3: Using Python, Anaconda, IPython, Jupyter Notebooks
• Lecture 4: Scientific Computing with NumPy, SciPy, and Matplotlib
• Lecture 5: Data Preprocessing and Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn

Part III: Tree-Based Methods

• Lecture 6: Decision Trees
• Lecture 7:Ensemble Methods

Part IV: Evaluation

• Model Evaluation and Performance Metrics
• Model Selection and Cross-Validation

Part V: Dimensionality Reduction

• Feature Selection
• Feature Extraction

Part VI: Bayesian Learning

• Bayes Classifiers
• Text Data & Sentiment Analysis
• Naive Bayes Classification

Part VII: Regression and Unsupervised Learning

• Regression Analysis
• Clustering

Part VIII: Artificial Neural Networks

• Perceptron
• Adaline & Logistic Regression
• SVM
• Multilayer Perceptron

Part IX: Deep Learning

• Intro to TensorFlow, PyTorch
• Convolutional Neural Networks
• Recurrent Neural Networks
• Training Neural Nets: "Tricks of the Trade"

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