Yi Hong
CSCI 4360/6360: Data Science II
Overview: Nowadays we are drowning in data and seeking techniques to extact information from our collected data. In this data science course, we will discuss some technqiues that are commonly used in data analytics. In particular, we will cover the background and fundamentals in data science, basic and advanced machine learning algorithms, as well as deep neural networks. In the end of this course, the students are able to master basic concepts, classical techniques, and useful tools in data science, and are able to analyze their data using the techniques covered in this course.
Course Information
Section numbers: 41968/41969
Class meetings: Online (Asynchronous); lecture videos will be released in the mornings of the meeting days.
Instructor: Yi Hong (yi.hong -at- uga.edu)
Office hours: TR 9:00am - 10:00am or by appointment
Course webpage: http://cobweb.cs.uga.edu/~yihong/CSCI4360-6360-Fall2020.html
Prerequisites
CSCI 3360
Grading
Homework (40%, 5 assignments, each 8%)
Small Project (15%, implementing a selected technique from scratch)
Final Project (40%, including proposal (5%), update (5%), presentation (15%, pre-recorded), and write-up (15%))
Participation (5%, answering questions in the end of the lecture videos, five times, each 1%)
There is no exam.
Late Policy: 1 day late (10% off), 2 (20% off), 3 (30% off). Late submissions are not accepted after 3 late days.
Grading scale: A: [93% - 100%], A-: [90% - 93%), B+: [87% - 90%), B: [83% - 87%), B-: [80% - 83%), C+: [77%, 80%), C:[70%, 77%), C-:[65% - 70%), D:[60% - 65%), F: [0% - 60%).
Reference Books
Joel Grus. Data Science from Scratch: First Principles with Python. Second Edition (2019), O'Reilly.
Aurelien Geron. Hands-on Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras & TensorFlow: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems. Second Edition (2019), O'Reilly.
Tentative Schedule
| Date | Topic | Reading | Presenter | To Do | |
| Week 0 | Aug 20 (R) | Course Introduction and Overview | -- | Yi | -- |
| Week 1 | Background and Fundamentals | ||||
| Aug 24 (M) | Python Crash Course I | Joel Grus' book, Chapter 2-3 | Yi | -- | |
| Aug 25 (T) | Python Crash Course II | Joel Grus' book, Chapter 2-3 | Yi | -- | |
| Aug 27 (R) | Math and Statistics Background I | Joel Grus' book, Chapter 4-7 | Yi | Participation Questions Due at 11:59pm ET on Sunday | |
| Week 2 | Aug 31 (M) | Math and Statistics Background II | Joel Grus' book, Chapter 4-7 | Yi | -- |
| Sep 1 (T) | Math and Statistics Background III | Joel Grus' book, Chapter 4-7 | Yi | -- | |
| Sep 3 (R) | Fundamentals of Machine Learning I | Joel Grus' book, Chapter 8, 11 Aureline Geron's book, Chapter 1, 2, 4 |
Yi | Homework 1 Handout Participation Questions Due at 11:59pm ET on Sunday |
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| Week 3 | Sep 7 (M) | Labor Day, No Class | -- | -- | -- |
| Sep 8 (T) | Fundamentals of Machine Learning II | Joel Grus' book, Chapter 8, 11 Aureline Geron's book, Chapter 1, 2, 4 |
Yi | -- | |
| Basic Machine Learning Algorithms | |||||
| Sep 10 (R) | Classification I | Joel Grus' book, Chapter 12, 13, 16 Aureline Geron's book, Chapter 3, 5 |
Yi | Participation Questions Due at 11:59pm ET on Sunday | |
| Week 4 | Sep 14 (M) | Classification II | Joel Grus' book, Chapter 12, 13, 16 Aureline Geron's book, Chapter 3, 5 |
Yi | -- |
| Sep 15 (T) | Classification III | Joel Grus' book, Chapter 12, 13, 16 Aureline Geron's book, Chapter 3, 5 |
Yi | -- | |
| Sep 17 (R) | Regression I | Joel Grus' Book, Chapter 14-15 | Yi | Homework 1 Due Participation Questions Due at 11:59pm ET on Sunday |
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| Week 5 | Sep 21 (M) | Regression II | Joel Grus' Book, Chapter 14-15 | Yi | -- |
| Sep 22 (T) | Regression III | Joel Grus' Book, Chapter 14-15 | Yi | -- | |
| Sep 24 (R) | Paper Reading | "SVM-KNN: Discriminative Nearest Neighbor Classification for Visual Category Recognition" | Yi | Final Project Proposal Due Homework 2 Handout Participation Questions Due at 11:59pm ET on Sunday |
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| Week 6 | Sep 28 (M) | Unsupervised Algorithms I | Joel Grus' Book, Chapter 12, 20 Aurelien Geron's Book, Chapter 8-9 |
Yi | -- |
| Sep 29 (T) | Unsupervised Algorithms II | Joel Grus' Book, Chapter 12, 20 Aurelien Geron's Book, Chapter 8-9 |
Yi | -- | |
| Oct 1 (R) | Unsupervised Algorithms III | Joel Grus' Book, Chapter 12, 20 Aurelien Geron's Book, Chapter 8-9 |
Yi | Participation Questions Due at 11:59pm ET on Sunday | |
| Week 7 | Oct 5 (M) | Paper Reading and Discussion | "Face Recognition Using Kernel Eigenfaces" | Yi | -- |
| Advanced Machine Learning Algorithms | |||||
| Oct 6 (T) | Decision Trees & Random Forests I | Joel Grus' Book, Chapter 17 Aurelien Geron's Book, Chapter 6-7 |
Yi | -- | |
| Oct 8 (R) | Decision Trees & Random Forests II | Joel Grus' Book, Chapter 17 Aurelien Geron's Book, Chapter 6-7 |
Yi | Homework 2 Due Homework 3 Handout Participation Questions Due at 11:59pm ET on Sunday |
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| Week 8 | Oct 12 (M) | Decision Trees & Random Forests III | Joel Grus' Book, Chapter 17 Aurelien Geron's Book, Chapter 6-7 |
Yi | -- |
| Oct 13 (T) | Paper Reading and Dicussion | "XGBoost: A Scalable Tree Boosting System" | Yi | -- | |
| Deep Neural Networks | |||||
| Oct 15 (R) | ANN I | Aurelien Geron's Book, Chapter 10-11 | Yi | Participation Questions Due at 11:59pm ET on Sunday | |
| Week 9 | Oct 19 (M) | ANN II | Aurelien Geron's Book, Chapter 10-11 | Yi | -- |
| Oct 20 (T) | Paper Reading and Discussion | "Deep Learning" | Yi | -- | |
| Oct 22 (R) | Data Processing | Joel Grus' Book, Chapter 9-10 Aurelien Geron's Book, Chapter 13 |
Yi | Homework 3 Due Participation Questions Due at 11:59pm ET on Sunday |
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| Week 10 | Oct 26 (M) | CNN I | Aurelien Geron's Book, Chapter 14 | Yi | -- |
| Oct 27 (T) | CNN II | Aurelien Geron's Book, Chapter 14 | Yi | -- | |
| Oct 29 (R) | CNN III | Aurelien Geron's Book, Chapter 14 | Yi | -- | |
| Week 11 | Nov 2 (M) | Paper Reading and Dicussion | "Fully Convolutional Networks for Semantic Segmentation" | Yi | -- |
| Nov 3 (T) | RNN I | Aurelien Geron's Book, Chapter 15 | Yi | Final Project Update Due | |
| Nov 5 (R) | RNN II | Aurelien Geron's Book, Chapter 15 | Yi | Homework 4 Handout Participation Questions Due at 11:59pm ET on Sunday |
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| Week 12 | Nov 9 (M) | RNN III | Aurelien Geron's Book, Chapter 15 | Yi | -- |
| Nov 10 (T) | Paper Reading and Dicussion | "CNN-RNN: A Unified Framework for Multi-label Image Classification" | Yi | -- | |
| Nov 12 (R) | Autoencoder & GANs I | Aurelien Geron's Book, Chapter 17 | Yi | Participation Questions Due at 11:59pm ET on Sunday | |
| Week 13 | Nov 16 (M) | Autoencoder & GANs II | Aurelien Geron's Book, Chapter 17 | Yi | -- |
| Nov 17 (T) | Autoencoder & GANs III | Aurelien Geron's Book, Chapter 17 | Yi | -- | |
| Nov 19 (R) | Paper Reading and Dicussion | "Autoencoding Beyond Pixels Using a Learned Similarity Metric" | Yi | Homework 4 Due Homework 5 Handout Participation Questions Due at 11:59pm ET on Sunday |
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| Week 14 | Nov 23 (M) | Ethical Issuses | Joel Grus' Book, Chapter 26 | Yi | -- |
| Nov 24 (T) | Data Science Summary | -- | Yi | Participation Questions Due at 11:59pm ET on Sunday | |
| Nov 25-27 (W-F) | Thanksgiving Holiday | ||||
| Week 15 | Nov 30 (M) | Project Presentation I | -- | All | -- |
| Dec 1 (T) | Project Presentation II | -- | All | -- | |
| Dec 3 (R) | Project Presentation III | -- | All | Homework 5 Due Participation Questions Due at 11:59pm ET on Sunday |
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| Week 16 | Dec 7 (M) | Wrap-Up and Open Discussion | -- | Yi | Technique Implementation Due |
| Dec 11 (T) | Project Write-UPs (8 page conference formatted paper) | ||||
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Disclaimer
The course syllabus is a general plan for the course; deviations announced to the class by the instructor may be necessary.