Course Schedule

Class Date Day Topic Notes Background & Reference
1 Jan 13 Tue Introduction update software
review pre-req material
R practice		 Modern Data Science with R sections: 2,3,4,6,7,9
2 Jan 15 Thu Prediction Pipeline R tidymodels
Python Pipeline
3 Jan 20 Tue Supervised Learning I ISL 1, 2.1, 7.1
ESL 1, 2.1-2.4

Jan 21 Wed HW 0 Due Homework #0 (.qmd)
4 Jan 22 Thu Supervised Learning II Quiz ISL 2.2-2.3
ESL 2.5-2.9
5 Jan 27 Tue Model Selection (I) ISL 5.1
ESL 7.10
ISL Chap 3 (review)

Jan 28 Wed HW 1 Due Homework #1 (.qmd)
6 Jan 29 Thu Model Selection (II) Quiz
7 Feb 3 Tue Prediction Trees ISL 8.1, 8.3.1-8.3.2
ESL 9.2

Feb 4 Wed HW 2 Due Homework #2 (.qmd)
8 Feb 5 Thu Random Forest Quiz ISL 8.2, 8.3.3-8.3.4
ESL 15
9 Feb 10 Tue Probability and Classification ISL 4.1-4.3
ESL 4.1-4.4, 9.1

Feb 11 Wed HW 3 Due Homework #3 (.qmd)
10 Feb 12 Thu Generative Classifiers Quiz ISL 4.4-4.5; ESL 6.6
11 Feb 17 Tue Support Vector Machines ISL 9.1-9.6
ESL 12.1-12.3 or MMDS 12.3

Feb 18 Wed HW 4 Due Homework #4 (.qmd)
12 Feb 19 Thu Calibrating Risk Scores Quiz Calibration: the Achilles heel of predictive analytics
13 Feb 24 Tue Review
14 Feb 26 Thu Midterm Exam

Mar 3 Tue No Class


Mar 5 Thu No Class

15 Mar 10 Tue Ensemble and Stacking ISL 8.2
16 Mar 12 Thu Gradient Boosting ISL 8.2.3; ESL 10.1-10.9, ESL 10.10-10.14
XGBoost, CatBoost, LightGBM
17 Mar 17 Tue Predictive Diagnostics Calibration: the Achilles heel of predictive analytics

Mar 18 Wed HW 5 Due Homework #5 (.qmd)
18 Mar 19 Thu Predictive Inference Quiz
19 Mar 24 Tue Sampling I

Mar 25 Wed HW 6 Due Homework #6 (.qmd)
20 Mar 26 Thu Sampling II Quiz
21 Mar 31 Tue Forecasting I

Apr 1 Wed HW 7 Due Homework #7 (.qmd)
22 Apr 2 Thu Forecasting II Quiz
23 Apr 7 Tue Survival Modeling I

Apr 8 Wed HW 8 Due Homework #8 (.qmd)
24 Apr 9 Thu Survival Modeling II Quiz
25 Apr 14 Tue Recommender Systems I

Apr 15 Wed HW 9 Due Homework #9 (.qmd)
26 Apr 16 Thu Recommender Systems II Quiz
27 Apr 21 Tue Review

Apr 22 Wed HW 10 Due Homework #10 (.qmd)
28 Apr 23 Thu Review Quiz

May 4 Mon Final Exam (2-5pm)

Reading