This material has been developed for the course IFI 8410 in the Master of Science in Analytics at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University.
The schedule below applies to Fall 2024. Please, refer to this page for any changes.
| Session | Date | Topics | Reading | Quiz/Exam |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 28, 2024 | UNIX file system, command line tools, Jupyter notebook | -/- | |
| 2 | September 4, 2024 | Python Programming | PY #2 | Quiz 1 |
| 3 | September 11, 2024 | Python Data Structures and Functions, File-IO; Intro ML | PY #3; ML #1 | Quiz 2 |
| 4 | September 18, 2024 | Arrays, Vectors, Matrices, Linear Algebra in Python; Data to Insights to Decisions | PY #4; ML #2 | Quiz 3 |
| 5 | September 25, 2024 | Data Tables (Pandas, etc.); Data Exploration | PY #5; ML #3.1-5 | Quiz 4 |
| 6 | October 2, 2024 | Data Transformation and Visualization | PY #7 + #9 | Quiz 5 |
| 7 | October 9, 2024 | String and Text, Regexp, Beautiful Soup | online | Quiz 6 |
| 8 | October 16, 2024 | Midterm Exam | ||
| 9 | October 23, 2024 | Python libraries for statistics and ML; Information-based Learning, Similarity-based Learning | PY #12; ML #4.1-3, #5.1-3 | Quiz 7 |
| 10 | October 30, 2024 | Python Modules, classes, methods; Probability-based Learning, Error-based Learning | online; ML #6.1-3, #7.1-3 | Quiz 8 |
| 11 | November 6, 2024 | Algorithms; Evaluation of ML Models | online; ML #9 | Quiz 9 |
| 12 | November 13, 2024 | Unsupervised Learning | ML #10 | Quiz 10 |
| 13 | November 20,2024 | ML Usecases | ML #13 | Quiz 11 |
| November 27, 2024 | Thanksgiving Break | |||
| 14 | December 4, 2024 | ML Projects | -/- | |
| December 11, 2024 | Final Exam |
- ML: Fundamentals of Machine Learning for Predictive Data Analytics, 2nd Edition
- PY: Python for Data Analysis: Data Wrangling with pandas, NumPy, and Jupyter, 3rd Edition
| Assignment | Date Posted | Due Date |
|---|---|---|
| HW01 | Wednesday, August 28, 2024 | Wednesday, September 11, 2024 |
| HW02 | Wednesday, September 11, 2024 | Wednesday, September 18, 2024 |
| HW03 | Wednesday, September 18, 2024 | Wednesday, September 25, 2024 |
| HW04 | Wednesday, September 25, 2024 | Wednesday, October 2, 2024 |
| HW05 | Wednesday, October 2, 2024 | Wednesday, October 9, 2024 |
| HW06 | Wednesday, October 9, 2024 | Wednesday, October 23, 2024 |
| HW07 | Wednesday, October 23, 2024 | Wednesday, October 30, 2024 |
| HW08 | Wednesday, October 30, 2024 | Wednesday, November 6, 2024 |
| HW09 | Wednesday, November 6, 2024 | Wednesday, November 13, 2024 |
| HW10 | Wednesday, November 13, 2024 | Wednesday, November 20, 2024 |
- Fundamentals of Machine Learning for Predictive Data Analytics, 2nd Edition by John D. Kelleher, Brian Mac Namee, and Aoife D’Arcy MIT-Press
- Python for Data Analysis: Data Wrangling with pandas, NumPy, and Jupyter, 3rd Edition by Wes McKinney online
