Practical Machine Learning
The course introduces machine learning with business applications. It provides a survey of statistical and machine learning algorithms and techniques including the machine learning framework, regression, classification, regularization and reduction, tree-based methods, unsupervised learning, and fully connected, convolutional, and recurrent neural networks. Students implement machine learning models with open-source software for data science. They explore data and learn from data, finding underlying patterns useful for data reduction, feature analysis, prediction, and classification. Recommended prior programming experience or MSDS 430-DL Python for Data Science.
Prerequisites & course information
Prerequisite: (1) MSDS 400-DL Math for Modelers, (2) MSDS 401-DL Applied Statistics with R.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027