Instructor:
Tom Minka, Statistics Dept
Teaching Assistant:
Fang Chen
Final Exam:
Monday December 16th, 1:00-4:00, Baker Hall 255A
| Date | Topic | 
|---|---|
| 8/26 | Similarity searching for text | 
| 8/28 | Euclidean length, IDF weighting, classification via similarity | 
| 9/4 | Similarity searching for images | 
| 9/9 | Finding discriminative words | 
| 9/11 | Finding likely discriminative words | 
| 9/16 | Clustering with k-means and Ward's method | 
| 9/18 | Applications of clustering to text and images | 
| 9/23 | Multivariate visualization, scatterplots | 
| 9/25 | Visualization by PCA projection | 
| 9/30 | Discriminative projection | 
| 10/2 | Parallel-coordinate plots | 
| 10/7 | Visualization for prediction | 
| 10/10 | Contour plots | 
| 10/14,16 | Regression trees | 
| 10/21 | Linear regression | 
| 10/23 | Stepwise variable selection | 
| 10/28 | Bilinear interaction | 
| 10/30 | Slice plots | 
| 11/4 | Classification trees | 
| 11/6 | Cross-validation, tree pruning | 
| 11/11 | Logistic regression classifier | 
| 11/13 | Quadratic classifier | 
| 11/18 | Response tables | 
| 11/20 | Contingency tables | 
| 11/25 | Time-series data | 
| 12/2 | Time series of purchases |