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STAT 432

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STAT 432 | UIUC | Dalpiaz

Syllabus BSL RStudio

PL CBTF Compass Queue Piazza

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Current Assignments

• Group Project
  • Final Report - Monday, December 16, 2019, 11:59 PM
  • Peer Evaluation - Monday, December 16, 2019, 11:59 PM
    • Template .Rmd

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Week 1

• Monday, August 26, 2019
  • First day of class! Welcome! Discussion of syllabus. An attempt to explain all of machine learning in five minutes. Some discussion of class technologies. Answering questions about the course and syllabus.
  • Slides | Syllabus
  • BSL | Preface
• Wednesday, August 28, 2019
  • An whirlwind introduction to doing machine learning in R. A preview of things to come in the course.
  • BSL | Chapter 1 | Introduction
• Friday, August 30, 2019
  • Deep dive into R, R Markdown, and RStudio Cloud.
  • BSL | Chapter 2 | Computing

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Week 2

• Monday, September 2, 2019
  • No class due to the Labor Day holiday.
• Wednesday, September 4, 2019
  • Some review of probability and estimation theory.
  • Slides | Estimation
  • Slides | Estimation | Completed
  • BSL | Chapter 3 | Estimation
  • CBTF | Syllabus Exam Open
  • PL | Quiz 01 Open
• Friday, September 6, 2019
  • Continue discussion of estimation. Maybe introduce regression.

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Week 3

• Monday, September 9, 2019
  • Supervised learning, Regression: Data splitting and evaluation metrics.
  • PL | Quiz 02 Open
  • Analysis | Analysis 00 Released
• Wednesday, September 11, 2019
  • Supervised learning, Regression: R!
  • Starter Code for Class
• Friday, September 13, 2019
  • Supervised learning, Regression: Linear Models, k-Nearest Neighbors, Trees. Estimation and model complexity.
  • BSL | Chapter 4 | Regression

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Week 4

• Monday, September 16, 2019
  • Slides | Bias-Variance Tradeoff
  • BSL | Chapter 5 | Bias-Variance Tradeoff
• Wednesday, September 18, 2019
  • Regression catch-all. Analysis 00 discussion.
• Friday, September 20, 2019
  • Trees!

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Week 5

• Monday, September 23, 2019
  • Introduction to the classification task.
  • BSL | Chapter 6 | Classification
• Wednesday, September 25, 2019
  • Classification in R.
  • BSL | Chapter 6 | Classification
• Friday, September 27, 2019
  • Binary classification.
  • BSL | Chapter 6 | Classification

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Week 6

• Monday, September 30, 2019
  • KNN and trees for classification.
  • BSL | Chapter 6 | Classification
• Wednesday, October 2, 2019
  • Logistic Regression
  • BSL | Chapter 6 | Classification
• Friday, October 4, 2019
  • Naive Bayes. Logistic and Naive Bayes in R.
  • BSL | Chapter 6 | Classification

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Week 7

• Monday, October 7, 2019
• Wednesday, October 9, 2019
  • Bootstrap.
• Friday, October 11, 2019
  • Cross-Validation.

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Week 8

• Monday, October 14, 2019
  • Exam I Postmortem. Introduction to ML in Practice.
• Wednesday, October 16, 2019
  • Regularizaiton
• Friday, October 18, 2019
  • Regularizaiton

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Week 9

• Monday, October 21, 2019
  • No class!
• Wednesday, October 23, 2019
  • Introduction to ensemble methods, mostly bagging.
  • BSL | Ensembles Methods
• Friday, October 25, 2019
  • Some specifics of random forest. Boosting.
  • BSL | Ensembles Methods

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Week 10

• Monday, October 28, 2019
  • CA Office Hours: 3:00 - 5:00, 311 Gregory Hall
  • Data Manipulation in R.
  • BSL | Data Manipulation
• Wednesday, October 30, 2019
  • Full Office Hours: 4:00 - 7:00, 2233 Everitt Lab
  • No Free Lunch and Do We Really Need So Many Classifiers?
• Friday, November 1, 2019
  • Introduction to data preparation for Machine Learning.
  • BSL | Practical Issues

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Week 11 (Exam II)

• Monday, November 4, 2019
  • CA Office Hours: 3:00 - 5:00, 311 Gregory Hall
  • More on data preparation.
  • BSL | Practical Issues
• Wednesday, November 6, 2019
  • Full Office Hours: 4:00 - 7:00, 2233 Everitt Lab
  • A brief detour to discuss class imbalance.
• Friday, November 8, 2019
  • Starting to talk about missing data.

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Week 12

• Monday, November 11, 2019
  • Due date of Analysis 02
• Wednesday, November 13, 2019
  • Full Office Hours: 4:00 - 7:00, 2233 Everitt Lab
• Friday, November 15, 2019
  • Starting to recap the course.

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Week 13

• Monday, November 18, 2019
  • CA Office Hours: 3:00 - 5:00, 1306 Everitt Lab
  • Due date of Analysis 03
  • Project proposals due.
  • Three weird tricks.
• Wednesday, November 20, 2019
  • Full Office Hours: 4:00 - 7:00, 2233 Everitt Lab
  • Slides: Computing?
• Friday, November 22, 2019
  • Slides: Closing

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Week 14

• Monday, November 25, 2019
  • No Class Fall Break!
• Wednesday, November 27, 2019
  • No Class Fall Break!
• Friday, November 29, 2019
  • No Class Fall Break!

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Week 15 (Exam III)

• Monday, December 2, 2019
  • Full Office Hours: 3:00 - 5:00, 1306 Everitt Lab
  • Due date of Analysis 04
  • In-class time for Projects.
• Wednesday, December 4, 2019
  • Full Office Hours: 4:00 - 7:00, 2233 Everitt Lab
  • In-class time for Projects.
• Friday, December 6, 2019
  • No class! (Due to Exam II) Work on Projects!

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Week 16

• Monday, December 9, 2019
  • No class! (Due to Exam III) Work on Projects!
• Wednesday, December 11, 2019
  • Due date of Analysis 05
  • Full Office Hours: 4:00 - 7:00, 2233 Everitt Lab
  • No class! (Due to Exam III) Work on Projects!
• Friday, December 13, 2019
  • No Class Finals

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Week 17

• Monday, December 16, 2019
  • Final Project Due

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