CSC 466 Winter 2020 Schedule
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Schedule
Below is our tentative schedule. It is subject to change, but any changes will be reflected here.
Important Dates
- January 6 (Monday) - Classes begin
- January 20 (Monday) - Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday observed (no class)
- January 21 (Tuesday) - Classes follow a Monday schedule (I assume this means no class for us)
- March 13 (Friday) - Last day of classes
- March 16-20 (Monday - Friday) - Final exams
Week 1 (1/7 and 1/9)
Go over Syllabus
Icebreaker
Chapter 1 (Intro) and Chapter 2 (Preliminaries)
Bayesian Classification Slides
Lab 1 - Python, NumPy, and Pandas
Week 2 (1/14 and 1/16)
Bayesian Classifier Slides
Week 2 - Chapter 12 - Learning with Trees
Lab 2 - Bayesian Classifier and Report
Week 3 (1/23)
No class on Tuesday
Chapter 13 - Decision by Committee
Week 4 (1/28 and 1/30)
Chpater 13 - Decision by Committee
Lab 3 - Decision Tree and Report
Week 5 (2/4 and 2/6)
Chapter 13 - Decision by Committee
Thursday 2/6 - Exam 1
Week 6 (2/11 and 2/13)
Chapter 14 - Unsupervised Learning - Kmeans (supplemented by Hierarchical clustering notes)
- Priority sections: 14.1.1 (skip 14.1.2 and 14.1.3 and 14.1.4) and 14.1.5
- Optional: The rest of the chapter requires an intro to neural networks
Lab 4 - Choosing an algorithm and answering questions
Week 7 (2/18 and 2/20)
Assignment of project
Chapter 6 - Dimensionality reduction
No official class on Thursday (Out of town)
Week 8 (2/25 and 2/27)
Lab 5 - Clustering and its uses
Week 9 (3/3 and 3/5)
Graph Algorithms (https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/graph-algorithms/9781492047674/)
Lab 6 - Collaborative Filtering and Report
Week 10 (3/10 and 3/12)
PageRank
Lab 7 - Graph Algorithms and Page Rank and Report
Lab 8 - Ethics of KDD sourced opinion column (Examples)
- This lab is worth 10 points.
- Write a 1-2 report on an issue related to the use or misuse of KDD methods.
- You may state your opinion, but your opinions should be supported by logic which should be supported by sources.
- You must have at least three distinct sources (just put the links to them at the end and they don’t count in terms of pages :)
Thursday 3/12 - Exam 2
Other
Useful material not covered directly above.