STAT 315
Applied Machine Learning
Last Offered Spring 2021
Division III Quantitative/Formal Reasoning
This course is not offered in the current catalog

Class Details

How does Netflix recommend films based on your viewing history? How does Facebook group its users and send out targeted ads? How did Google select from thousands of search terms to predict flu? Machine learning (ML) is a rapidly growing field that is concerned with algorithms and models to find patterns in data and solve these practical problems at the intersection between statistics, data science and computer science. This course provides a broad introduction to ideas and methods in machine learning, with emphasis on statistical intuitions and practical data analysis. Topics including regularized regression, SVM, supervised/unsupervised learning, text analysis, neural networks will be covered. Students will use R extensively throughout the course while getting introduced to some ML tools in Python.
The Class: Format: lecture; Students cannot take both STAT 315 and STAT 442. Only one of the two can be taken for credit.
Limit: 15
Expected: 15
Class#: 5380
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: weekly homework, one class project, and two or three exams
Prerequisites: MATH 140, and STAT 201/202, or equivalent; or permission of instructor. Students cannot take both STAT 315 and STAT 442. Only one of the two can be taken for credit.
Enrollment Preferences: Seniors.
Distributions: Division III Quantitative/Formal Reasoning
QFR Notes: This is a statistics class with a focus on mathematical, computational, and data analysis skills as well as appropriate practical application of analysis methods

Class Grid

Updated 11:59 pm

Course Catalog Search


(searches Title and Course Description only)
TERM




SUBJECT
DIVISION



DISTRIBUTION



ENROLLMENT LIMIT
COURSE TYPE
Start Time
End Time
Day(s)