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Introduction to Applied Machine Learning

  • Statistical learning versus machine learning
  • Iteration and evaluation
  • The bias-variance trade-off
  • Supervised versus unsupervised learning
  • Problems solved with machine learning
  • Train, validation, test – the ML workflow to avoid overfitting
  • The machine learning workflow
  • Machine learning algorithms
  • Selecting the appropriate algorithm for the problem

Algorithm Evaluation

  • Evaluating numerical predictions
    • Measures of accuracy: ME, MSE, RMSE, MAPE
    • Parameter and prediction stability
  • Evaluating classification algorithms
    • Accuracy and its limitations
    • The confusion matrix
    • The problem of unbalanced classes
  • Visualising model performance
    • Profit curve
    • ROC curve
    • Lift curve
  • Model selection
  • Model tuning – grid search strategies

Data Preparation for Modelling

  • Data import and storage
  • Understanding the data – basic explorations
  • Data manipulation with the pandas library
  • Data transformations – data wrangling
  • Exploratory analysis
  • Missing observations – detection and solutions
  • Outliers – detection and strategies
  • Standardisation, normalisation, binarisation
  • Qualitative data recoding

Machine Learning Algorithms for Outlier Detection

  • Supervised algorithms
    • KNN
    • Ensemble Gradient Boosting
    • SVM
  • Unsupervised algorithms
    • Distance-based methods
    • Density-based methods
    • Probabilistic methods
    • Model-based methods

Understanding Deep Learning

  • Overview of the basic concepts of deep learning
  • Differentiating between machine learning and deep learning
  • Overview of applications for deep learning

Overview of Neural Networks

  • What are neural networks?
  • Neural networks versus regression models
  • Understanding mathematical foundations and learning mechanisms
  • Constructing an artificial neural network
  • Understanding neural nodes and connections
  • Working with neurons, layers, and input and output data
  • Understanding single-layer perceptrons
  • Differences between supervised and unsupervised learning
  • Learning feedforward and feedback neural networks
  • Understanding forward propagation and back propagation

Building Simple Deep Learning Models with Keras

  • Creating a Keras model
  • Understanding your data
  • Specifying your deep learning model
  • Compiling your model
  • Fitting your model
  • Working with your classification data
  • Working with classification models
  • Using your models

Working with TensorFlow for Deep Learning

  • Preparing the data
    • Downloading the data
    • Preparing training data
    • Preparing test data
    • Scaling inputs
    • Using placeholders and variables
  • Specifying the network architecture
  • Using the cost function
  • Using the optimizer
  • Using initializers
  • Fitting the neural network
  • Building the graph
    • Inference
    • Loss
    • Training
  • Training the model
    • The graph
    • The session
    • Train loop
  • Evaluating the model
    • Building the eval graph
    • Evaluating with eval output
  • Training models at scale
  • Visualising and evaluating models with TensorBoard

Application of Deep Learning in Anomaly Detection

  • Autoencoder
    • Encoder-decoder architecture
    • Reconstruction loss
  • Variational Autoencoder
    • Variational inference
  • Generative Adversarial Network
    • Generator-discriminator architecture
    • Approaches to anomaly detection using GANs

Ensemble Frameworks

  • Combining results from different methods
  • Bootstrap aggregating
  • Averaging outlier scores

Requirements

  • Experience with Python programming
  • Basic familiarity with statistics and mathematical concepts

Audience

  • Developers
  • Data scientists
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