Schedule of Events
Class meetings are held on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays.
On Mondays, workshops are 3:00 - 3:50pm in Forest Resources-4 0517.
On Tuesdays and Thursdays, lectures are 2:20 - 3:35pm in Physics 0303.
| Date | Topic | Links |
| Thurs, 8/19 | Lecture 1: Course Introduction | pptx | pdf | mp4 |
| Mon, 8/23 | Workshop 0: Setting up your Python Environment | materials | mp4 |
| Tues, 8/24 | Homework 1 Released | pdf | handout |
| Tues, 8/24 | Lecture 2: Python Crash Course, Part 1 | html | ipynb | mp4 |
| Thurs, 8/26 | Lecture 3: Python Crash Course, Part 2 | html | ipynb | mp4 |
| Mon, 8/30 | Workshop 1 (Nikhil Ranjan): Pandas & Dask | zip | mp4 |
| Tues, 8/31 | Lecture 4: Linear Algebra Review | github | pt1, pt2, pt3 |
| Thurs, 9/2 | Lecture 5: Linear Algebra Review | github | pt1, pt2 |
| Mon, 9/6 | Labor Day! No classes | |
| Tues, 9/7 | Lecture Cancelled for Rosh Hashanah | |
| Thurs, 9/9 | Lecture 6: Dense Motion Analysis | pptx | pdf | mp4 |
| Mon, 9/13 | Workshop 2 (Harrison Ham, Sean Kan, Nikhil Ranjan): Gradient Boosted Trees with xgboost | materials |
| Tues, 9/14 | Homework 1 Due | |
| Tues, 9/14 | Lecture 7: Linear Dynamical Systems | pptx | pdf | mp4 |
| Thurs, 9/16 | Lecture Cancelled for Yom Kippur | |
| Mon, 9/20 | Workshop 3 (Winston Weinmann and Nicholas Findley): scikit-learn | materials | mp4 |
| Mon, 9/20 | Homework 2 Released | pdf | handout |
| Tues, 9/21 | Lecture 8: Linear and Ensemble Methods | pptx | pdf | mp4 |
| Thurs, 9/23 | Lecture 9: Ethics in Data Science | pptx | pdf | mp4 |
| Mon, 9/27 | Workshop 4 (Steven Zhang, Chenqian Xu, Xin He): Tensorflow | materials | mp4 |
| Tues, 9/28 | Lecture 10: Guest Lecturer Farid Gharehmohammadi, Ph.D. Candidate: Evolutionary Computation in Computer Vision | pptx | pdf | mp4 |
| Thurs, 9/30 | Lecture 11: Guest Lecturer Dr. Roi Ceren: Reinforcement Learning in Theory and Practice | pptx | pdf | mp4 |
| Mon, 10/4 | Workshop 5 (Nick Findley, Whit Weinmann, Gabrielle Panlaqui): SQL, MySQL, and SQLite | materials | mp4 |
| Tues, 10/5 | Homework 3 Released | pdf | handout |
| Tues, 10/5 | Lecture 12: Graphs | pptx | pdf | mp4 |
| Thurs, 10/7 | Homework 2 Due | |
| Thurs, 10/7 | Lecture 13: Spectral Clustering | pptx | pdf | mp4 |
| Mon, 10/11 | Midterm Review (no workshop) | pptx | pdf |
| Tues, 10/12 | Midterm Exam | |
| Thurs, 10/14 | Lecture 14: Semi-supervised Learning | pptx | pdf | mp4 |
| Thurs, 10/14 | Final Project Proposals Due | |
| Mon, 10/18 | Workshop 6 (Albert You, Jackson Cown): NLTK | materials | mp4 |
| Tues, 10/19 | Lecture 15: Embeddings I (Metric Learning) | pptx | pdf | mp4 |
| Thurs, 10/21 | Lecture 16: Embeddings II (Kernel & Sparse PCA, Dictionary Learning) | pptx | pdf | mp4 |
| Thurs, 10/21 | Homework 3 Due | |
| Mon, 10/25 | Workshop 7 (Ociel Marin, Parker Ciaramella): JAX | materials | mp4 |
| Tues, 10/26 | Homework 4 Released | pdf | handout |
| Tues, 10/26 | Lecture 17: Kernel Methods and SVMs | pptx | pdf | mp4 |
| Thurs, 10/28 | Lecture 18: Neural Networks | pptx | pdf | mp4 |
| Thurs, 10/28 | Final Project: Update 1 Due | |
| Mon, 11/1 | Workshop 8 (Gabrielle Panlaqui, Ben Taylor, Albert You): OpenCV | materials | mp4 |
| Tues, 11/2 | Lecture 19: Backpropagation | pptx | pdf | mp4 |
| Thurs, 11/4 | Lecture 20: Convolutional Neural Networks | pptx | pdf | mp4 |
| Mon, 11/8 | Workshop 9 (Xin He, Yi Zhou, Chenqian Xu): Plotly | materials | mp4 |
| Tues, 11/9 | Lecture 21: Deep Autoencoders | pptx | pdf | mp4 |
| Thurs, 11/11 | Lecture 22: Guest Lecturer Marcus Hill, Ph.D. Candidate on Graph Convolutional Networks | |
| Thurs, 11/11 | Homework 4 Due | |
| Mon, 11/15 | Workshop 10 (Trisha Nayak, Alireza Vaezi, Vijay Iyengar): Julia | materials | mp4 |
| Tues, 11/16 | Homework 5 Released | pdf | handout |
| Tues, 11/16 | Lecture 23: Recurrent Neural Networks | pptx | pdf | mp4 |
| Thurs, 11/18 | Lecture 24: Guest Lecturer Meekail Zain, Ph.D. Student on Deep Representation Learning | |
| Thurs, 11/18 | Final Project: Update 2 Due | |
| Mon, 11/22 | Workshop 11 (Sean Kan, Harrison Ham, Vijay Iyengar): yfinance | materials | mp4 |
| Tues, 11/23 | Lecture 25: Deep Generative Models | pptx | pdf | mp4 |
| Thurs, 11/21 | Thanksgiving Break! No classes | |
| Mon, 11/29 | Workshop 12 (Devin Hajjari, Alireza Vaezi, Ben Taylor): PyTorch Lightning | materials | mp4 |
| Tues, 11/30 | Final Project Talks | |
| Thurs, 12/2 | Final Project Talks | |
| Thurs, 12/2 | Homework 5 Due | |
| Mon, 12/6 | Final Project Talks |