Course Descriptions and Schedule
Please note that course schedules may be amended due to low enrollment, faculty availability, and/or other factors.
MSDS 411-DL : Unsupervised Learning Methods
Description
This course introduces traditional and modern methods of unsupervised learning. Students see how to represent relationships among many continuous variables using principal components and factor analysis. They identify groups of individuals and groups of variables with cluster analysis and block clustering. They explore relationships among categorical variables with log-linear models and association rules. They visualize multivariate data with lattice displays, multidimensional scaling, and t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding. And they detect anomalies using autoencoders and probabilistic deep learning. This is a project-based course with extensive programming assignments.
This is a required course for the Analytics and Modeling specialization.
Prerequisites: MSDS 400-DL Math for Modelers and MSDS 401-DL
Applied Statistics with R
Fall 2024 | ||||
Start/End Dates | Day(s) | Time | Building | Section |
09/24/24 - 12/14/24 | Sync Session W | 7 – 9:30 p.m. | 55 | |
Instructor | Course Location | Status | CAESAR Course ID | |
Wilck, Joe | Online | Open |
Winter 2025 | ||||
Start/End Dates | Day(s) | Time | Building | Section |
01/06/25 - 03/22/25 | Sync Session W | 7 – 9:30 p.m. | 55 | |
Instructor | Course Location | Status | CAESAR Course ID | |
Riggs, Jamie | Online | Open |
Spring 2025 | ||||
Start/End Dates | Day(s) | Time | Building | Section |
03/31/25 - 06/13/25 | Sync Session W | 7 – 9:30 p.m. | 55 | |
Instructor | Course Location | Status | CAESAR Course ID | |
Wilck, Joe | Online | Open |
Summer 2025 | ||||
Start/End Dates | Day(s) | Time | Building | Section |
06/23/25 - 08/30/25 | Sync Session W | 7 – 9:30 p.m. | 55 | |
Instructor | Course Location | Status | CAESAR Course ID | |
Mickelson, William | Online | Open |