Course Outline
Introduction to Applied Machine Learning
- Statistical learning vs. Machine learning
- Iteration and evaluation
- Bias-Variance trade-off
Regression
- Linear regression
- Generalizations and Nonlinearity
- Exercises
Classification
- Bayesian refresher
- Naive Bayes
- Logistic regression
- K-Nearest neighbors
- Exercises
Cross-validation and Resampling
- Cross-validation approaches
- Bootstrap
- Exercises
Unsupervised Learning
- K-means clustering
- Examples
- Challenges of unsupervised learning and beyond K-means
Requirements
Knowledge of R programming language. Basic familiarity with statistics and linear algebra is recommended.
Testimonials
Highly qualified trainer. Skilled both in data science and advanced R programming, capable of providing in-depth explanation of complex problems from both worlds. The knowledge was highly specialistic and will be extremely valuable to my work. Simply put: this was the best training course I have participated in.
Maria Świderek, Ministerstwo Zdrowia
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Many examples and exercises related to the topic of the training.
Tomasz - Maria Świderek, Ministerstwo Zdrowia
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The trainer truly showed how powerful R is and why it is beneficial.
Vodacom
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One hands-on exercise that is super relevant to work.
Fannie Mae
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Practice exercises were relevant and very helpful to reinforce the knowledge.
Andy Kwan - Environment and Climate Change Canada
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Follow-along exercises after slide presentation kept engagement.
Robin White - Environment and Climate Change Canada
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Michael was very knowledgeable and clear in his instruction of the training. Course was well structured to teach the desired subject as well as the right amount of room was left to adjust to fit our needs better. Over all, I am very happy with the course.
Brock Batey - Environment and Climate Change Canada
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Practical exercises with R were very helpful.
CEED Bulgaria
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The exercises.
Elena Velkova - CEED Bulgaria
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Good detail on what R is used for and how to start using it right away
Hoss Shenassa - Trimac Management Services LP
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The remote classroom setting worked very well
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Muhammad Surajo Sanusi - Birmingham City University
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I genuinely enjoyed the hands passed exercises.
Yunfa Zhu - Environmental and Climate Change Canada
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I was benefit from the good examples and opportunity to follow along.
- Environmental and Climate Change Canada
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I enjoyed the self-learning through exercises and the tips and shortcuts shared.
- Competition Bureau
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the matter was well presented and in an orderly manner.
Marylin Houle - Ivanhoe Cambridge
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Exercises on time series modeling
Teleperformance
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It was very informative and professionally held. Wojteks knowledge level was so advanced that he could basically answer any question and he was willing to put effort into fitting the training to my personal needs.
Sonja Steiner - BearingPoint GmbH
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The tutor, Mr. Michael Yan, interacted with the audience very well, the instruction was clear. The tutor also go extent to add more information based on the requests from the students during the training.
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the introduction of new packages
Ottawa Research and Development Center, Science Technology Branch, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Programming with Big Data in R Course
Michael the trainer is very knowledgeable and skillful about the subject of Big Data and R. He is very flexible and quickly customize the training to meet clients' need. He is also very capable to solve technical and subject matter problems on the go. Fantastic and professional training!
Xiaoyuan Geng - Ottawa Research and Development Center, Science Technology Branch, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
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Hands on examples were the most helpful.
Sean Kaukas
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A lot of knowldege - theoretical and practical
Anna Alechno
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The way the trainer made complex subjects easy to understand.
Adam Drewry
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Torin Mitchell
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I enjoyed the Excel sheets provided having the exercises with examples. This meant that if Kamil was held up helping other people, I could crack on with the next parts.
Luke Pontin
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The flexible and friendly style. Learning exactly what was useful and relevant for me
Jenny Tickner
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Graphs in R :)))
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We gained some knowledge about NN in general, and what was the most interesting for me were the new types of NN that are popular nowadays.
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new insights in deep machine learning
Josip Arneric
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Working with 1:1 with Gunnar.
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very tailored to needs
Yashan Wang
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The trainer was so knowledgeable and included areas I was interested in
Mohamed Salama
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I get answers on all my questions.
Natalia Gladii
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He was very informative and helpful.