85302 - DATA SCIENCE

Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire

Al termine del corso, lo studente conosce i metodi correnti delle tecniche applicati ai data-science usando metodi e software computazionali moderni con una particolare enfasi sul ragionamento rigoroso in statistica. Lo studente è capace di rappresentare e organizzare le conoscenze riguardo a collezioni di dati su larga scala, trasformare i dati in informazioni pratiche usando concetti di "statistical learning" e " data mining" combinati con le tecniche di visualizzazione dei dati e di riproducibilità delle analisi dei dati.

Contenuti

Part 0: Introduction to Statistical Learning

Part I: Classification

• Naïve Bayes
• Logistic Regression;
• Linear Discriminant Analysis
• k-Nearest Neighbors

Part II: Resampling Methods

• Cross-Validation
• The Bootstrap

Part III: Tree-Based Methods

• Classification trees
• Bagging; Random Forests; Boosting

Part IV: Unsupervised Learning

• k-means
• Hierarchical clustering

Part V: Overview of the main machine learning methods

• Support Vector Machines
• Neural Networks

Testi/Bibliografia

The primary text for the course:

• James, G., Witten, D., Hastie, T., & Tibshirani, R. (2013). An introduction to Statistical Learning. New York: Springer.
  Freely available at: http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/ISLR%20Seventh%20Printing.pdf

In addition, we will use:

• T. Hastie, R. Tibshirani, and J. Friedman (2001) The Elements of Statistical Learning: data mining, inference and prediction. Springer Verlag.
  Freely available at: https://web.stanford.edu/~hastie/Papers/ESLII.pdf
• J. Han and M. Kamber (2000) Data mining: concepts and techniques. Morgan Kaufman.
  Freely available at: http://myweb.sabanciuniv.edu/rdehkharghani/files/2016/02/The-Morgan-Kaufmann-Series-in-Data-Management-Systems-Jiawei-Han-Micheline-Kamber-Jian-Pei-Data-Mining.-Concepts-and-Techniques-3rd-Edition-Morgan-Kaufmann-2011.pdf

Metodi didattici

Lectures and practical sessions.

Lectures complemented with practical sessions. As concerns the teaching methods of this course unit, all students must attend Module 1, 2 on Health and Safety online.

 

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

The learning assessment is composed by a written test lasting 110 minutes. The written test is aimed at assessing the student's ability to use the learned definitions, concepts and properties and in solving exercises. During the written exam, students can only use the cheat sheet that is provided on virtuale.unibo.it, containing references to R packages and functions. Students cannot make use of the textbook, personal notes and mobile phones (smart watch or similar electronic data storage or communication device are not allowed either).

The written test consists of 7-10 questions, both multiple choice and open, some of which to be solved in R. The final grade is out of thirty.

Students that, despite having passed the exam, do not feel represented by the obtained result can ask to have an additional (optional) oral exam that can change the grade by +/-3 points.

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

The following material will be provided: slides of the lectures, exercises with solutions, mock exam.

Orario di ricevimento

Consulta il sito web di Laura Anderlucci