Schedule

Video Archives and Live Streamed Lectures

Textbooks

• R. Duda, P. Hart & D. Stork, Pattern Classification (2nd ed.), Wiley, 2001 (required).
• Tom Mitchell, Machine Learning, McGraw-Hill, 1997 (required).

Assignments

There will be four assignments handed out on weeks 2, 4, 6, and 8; they are due two weeks later. Each assignment is worth 25% of the final grade. Submit online here.

• Assignment 1: Clickstream Mining with Decision Trees, Rule Induction. Due April 19, 2012 at 6:30pm.
• Assignment 2: Collaborative Filtering and Bayes Nets. Due May 3, 2012 at 6:30pm.
• Assignment 3: Naive Bayes, Neural Nets, Ensemble Methods. Due May 17, 2012 at 6:30pm.
• Assignment 4: Learning Theory and SVMs. Due May 31, 2012 at 6:30pm.

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