Meeting Schedule

Date	Topic	Homework	Material
8/30/11	Introduction	Read Chapter 1 Supplemental/Alternate reading: Chatper 1 of HTF Read NY Times Article on Statistics Try matlab in your work environment	intro.pdf
9/01/11	Probability Review	Read Chapter 2 (skim 2.3.8, 2.5)	probreview.pdf
9/06/11	Academic Honesty Discussion	HW1 assigned; due 9/15/11	honesty.pdf
9/08/11	Linear Algebra Review Probability Distribution Review		linalg.pdf distributions.pdf
9/13/11	Convex Optimization	Read Appendix E	optimization.pdf
9/15/11	Linear Regression	Read Chapter 3 (skim 3.5, 3.6) Alternate Reading: HTF 3.1 and 3.2	regression.pdf
9/20/11	Overfitting and Regularization	Alternate Reading: HTF 3.3 and 3.4 HW2 assigned; due 9/29	choosingpredictions.pdf
9/22/11	Linear Models for Classification	Read Chapter 4 Alternate Reading: HTF Chatper 4	linearclassifiers.pdf
9/27/11	Slack
9/29/11	Linear SVMs	Read Chapter 7 Alternate Reading: HTF 12.1-12.2	svmlinear.pdf
10/04/11	Slack	Read Chapter 9 Alternate Reading: HTF 14.3	clusterem.pdf
10/06/11	Clustering and EM	HW3 assigned; due 10/18
10/11/11	Fall Break
10/13/11	PCA	Read 12.1, skim 12.2-12.3 Alternate Reading: HTF 14.5	PCA.pdf
10/18/11	HMMs	HW4 assigned due 10/27	hmms.pdf
10/20/11	Collaborative Filtering	Netflix Prize	collabfiltering.pdf
10/25/11	MDPs and Reinforcement Learning	Regularized ALP paper	mdp.pdf
10/27/11	Slack
11/01/11	Non-parametric methods	Read Smoothing by Local Regression: Principles and Methods Alternate reading: HTF 6.1-6.3	nonparametric.pdf
11/03/11	Midterm
11/08/11	Kernels Part I	Read chapter 6 (skim 6.43-6.47)	kernels.pdf
11/10/11	Kernels Part II	(Re)read chapter 7 Alternate Reading: HTF 12.3	svmkernel.pdf
11/15/11	Slack	Read Chapter 8
11/17/11	Graphical Models	HW5 assigned due 12/1	bnets.pdf
11/22/11	Graphical Models II	Read chapter 11	gmodels.pdf
11/29/11	Neural Networks	Read Chapter 5
12/1/11	Wrap Up - Everything I Didn't Have Time to Tell You