Materials - Topics in Inference for Big Data

January 09, 2015
Introduction, Overview, and Some Basics
Lecture | Slides (NR; MZ) | Tentative Schedule 

January 16, 2015
Optimization and Machine Learning
Lecture (MZ-a; GL; MZ-b) | Slides (MZ-a; GL; MZ-b)

January 23, 2015
Unsupervised Learning
Lecture (MZ-a; GL; MZ-b) | Slides (MZ-a; MZ-a-revised; GL; MZ-b)

January 30, 2015
Towards Deep Learning
Lecture | Slides (MZ; GL)

February 06, 2015
Ensembles
Lecture | Slides (MZ-a; MZ-b)

February 13, 2015
Kernel Machines
Lecture | Slides (MZ-a; MZ-b)

February 25, 2015
Visualization
Lecture | Slides (GL; NR-a; NR-b) | Code for NR-b
Guest Lecture -- Bowei Xi
Just Discovered -- RStudio Cheatsheets! Brilliant

March 6, 2015
Inference
Lecture | Slides (NR) (includes references)

March 13, 2015
Planning of Studies
Lecture | Slides (NR)

March 20, 2015
Privacy and Big Data
Lecture | Slides (NR)

March 27, 2015
Overview and Comments
Lecture | Slides (MZ) | Slides (NR)

(NR = Nancy Reid; MZ = Mu Zhu; GL = Guest Lecturer)