Date Class Topic
Mon 26 Jan 1 Introduction, Kaggle
Wed 28 Jan 2 Decision boundaries, sklearn pipelines, kNN classifier
Mon 2 Feb 3 Validation, also quick intro to Pandas.
Wed 4 Feb 4 Subsampling, Decision Trees
Mon 9 Feb 5 Cross-validation, Bootstrap, Boosting, Bagging, Random Forests
Wed 11 Feb 6 Grid search, multi-class classifiers
Mon 16 Feb No class
Wed 18 Feb 7 Competition-specific analysis, PCA
Mon 23 Feb 8 Stacking, Kernels, Support Vector Machines
Wed 25 Feb 9 New competition, Intro to regression, parallelize, GLM and transformed targets
Mon 2 Mar 10 Regularization, Feature Selection, Polynomial Regression
Wed 4 Mar 11 Cross-validation for time-series
Mon 9 Mar 12 Inner and Outer Database Joins
Wed 11 Mar 13 Diagnostic plots with Yellowbrick
Mon 16 Mar 14 Neural Networks
Wed 18 Mar 15 Backpropagation, Convolutional Neural Networks
Mon 23 Mar 16 Neural Networks with TensorFlow, Keras and TPU
Wed 25 Mar 17 Midterm
Mon 30 Mar 18 Dealing with overfitting
Wed 1 Apr No class
Mon 6 Apr No class
Wed 8 Apr No class
Mon 13 Apr 19 Optimizers
Wed 15 Apr 20 Transfer Learning
Mon 20 Apr 21 Ethics
Wed 22 Apr 22 word2vec and autoencoders
Mon 27 Apr 23 Recurrent neural networks
Wed 29 Apr 24 Bayesian Statistics
Mon 4 May 25 Bayesian Classifiers
Wed 6 May 26 Reinforcement Learning
Mon 11 May 27 Computational Creativity, Deep Dream, Style transfer, GAN
Wed 13 May 28 Review