Lecture schedule is tentative and subject to change
| Date | Topic | Required Readings |
|---|---|---|
| Tues, Jan 22, 2019 | Simple Regression | |
| Thur, Jan 24, 2019 | Multiple Regression | ISLR Ch 3.2 - 3.6 |
| Tues, Jan 29, 2019 | Continued Topics | |
| Thur, Jan 31, 2019 | Model Selection | |
| Thurs, Jan 31, 2019 | Model Selection | |
| Tues, Feb 5, 2019 | Quiz 1. Continued Topics | |
| Thurs, Feb 7, 2019 | Cross validation, shrinkage methods | ISLR Ch 5, 6.2 |
| Tues, Feb 12, 2019 | Continued Topics | |
| Thurs, Feb 14, 2019 | Logistic Regression, MLE | Ch 4.1-4.3 |
| Tues, Feb 19, 2019 | Inference | |
| Thurs, Feb 21, 2019 | Classification (ROC, AUC, FDR) | |
| Tues, Feb 26, 2019 | Quiz 2. Bayes Rule | |
| Thurs, Feb 28, 2019 | Shrinkage methods for Classification | |
| Tues, March 5, 2019 | Spring Break. No class. | |
| Thurs, March 7, 2019 | Spring Break. No class. | |
| Tues, March 12, 2019 | Bootstrap | ISLR Ch 5.2 |
| Thurs, March 14, 2019 | Tree based methods: single tree and bagging | Ch 8 |
| Tues, March 19, 2019 | Quiz 3. Random Forest | |
| Thurs, March 21, 2019 | Continued topics | |
| Tues, March 26, 2019 | Boosting | |
| Thurs, March 28, 2019 | Continued topics | |
| Tues, April 2, 2019 | Principle Component Analysis (PCA) | |
| Thurs, April 4, 2019 | Continued topics | |
| Tues, April 9, 2019 | Text mining: "Bag of Words" models, sentiment analysis | |
| Thursday, April 11, 2019 | Neural networks / deep learning | |
| Tues, April 16, 2019 | Continued topics | |
| Thurs, April 18, 2019 | Continued topics | |
| Tuesday, April 23, 2019 | Networks | |
| Thurs, April 25, 2019 | Continued topics | |
| Tues, April 30, 2019 | Quiz 4. Last Class | |
| Mon, April 29, 2019 | Data Science Forum |