Machine Learning for Business

English
GRA 4136
6 Credits

Introduction

This course teaches students how to use machine learning techniques and tools for predictive analytics. The course will also teach students to: specify problems accessible with these methods, evaluate analytics models, use new tools in the rapidly evolving automated machine learning field, and deploy machine learning models. The course assumes prior experience with: basic probability theory, traditional statistics for categorical and continuous independent variables, introductory Python programming, and MS Excel.

Course content

This course focuses on predictive analytics using machine learning: supervised learning (classification and regression). The course will also introduce unsupervised learning, including clustering and dimensionality reduction. Students will implement and tune individual machine learning algorithms (e.g., via Python’s scikit-learn library), and work with automated machine learning tools. In addition to lectures, the course will include cases.

Disclaimer

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