Schedule

Event

Date

Description

Course Material
Lecture

04/16/2024
Tuesday

Chapter 1: Some probability theory
[slides] [TexCode]
Suggested Readings:
- Nice, relatively simple explanation of the basics
- Probability theory : a comprehensive course, by Achim Klenke
Lecture

04/18/2024
Thursday

Chapter 2: Basics of Linear Algebra
[slides] [TexCode]
Lecture

04/23/2024
Tuesday

Chapter 3: Multivariate Data Types and Descriptive Statistics
[slides] [TexCode] [ggplot examples from the lecture] [ShinyApp (projectoR)]
Assignment

04/25/2024
Thursday

Assignment #1 - Probability theory and Linear Algebra released!

[Assignment #1 - Probability theory and Linear Algebra] [Solutions]
Lecture

04/30/2024
Tuesday

Chapter 4: Multivariate Distributions
[slides] [TexCode]
Assignment

05/16/2024
Thursday

Assignment #2 - Multivariate Distributions released!

[Assignment #2 - Multivariate Distributions] [Solutions]
Lecture

05/23/2024
Thursday

Chapter 5: Distance and Similarity measures
[slides] [TexCode]
Lecture

05/23/2024
Thursday

Chapter 6: Supervised Learning
[slides] [TexCode]
Assignment

06/06/2024
Thursday

Assignment #3 - Distance and Similarity Measures + Supervised Learning released!

[Assignment #3 - Distance and Similarity Measures + Supervised Learning] [Solutions]
Lecture

06/11/2024
Tuesday

Chapter 7.1: Unsupervised Learning: Clustering
[slides] [TexCode]
Lecture

06/13/2024
Thursday

Chapter 7.2: Dimensionality Reduction: a Motivation
[slides] [TexCode]
Assignment

06/20/2024
Thursday

Assignment #4 - Unsupervised Learning: Clustering released!

[Assignment #4 - Unsupervised Learning: Clustering] [Solutions]
Lecture

06/25/2024
Tuesday

Chapter 7.3: Principal Component Analysis (PCA)
[slides] [TexCode]
Assignment

07/02/2024
Tuesday

Assignment #5 - Unsupervised Learning: PCA released!

[Assignment #5 - Unsupervised Learning: PCA] [Solutions]
Lecture

07/04/2024
Thursday

Chapter 7.4: Multidimensional scaling (MDS)
[slides] [TexCode]
Lecture

07/09/2024
Tuesday

Chapter 8: Applications and Case Studies in R
[HTML] [printed pdf] [data]
Assignment

07/11/2024
Thursday

Assignment #6 - Unsupervised Learning: MDS released!

[Assignment #6 - Unsupervised Learning: MDS] [Solutions]
Assignment

07/16/2024
Tuesday

Mock Exam released!

[Mock Exam]
Exam

07/25/2024 14:00
Thursday

Final Exam

Topics: TBD
Due

09/08/2024 23:59
Sunday

Deadline for Project submission