The schedule is tentative, it will very likely change as we go. Links to the course material will be provided in the schedule below before each class.

The course schedule

Week Tuesday Thursday
01 Oct 14
No class 
Oct 16
No class 
02 Oct 21
Introduction / organization 
[slides, 8up]
Oct 23
Linear algebra (vector, matrices) 
[slides, 8up]
03 Oct 28
Linear algebra (dot product) 
Oct 30
Linear algebra (solving systems of equations, matrix inverse) 
[slides, 8up]
04 Nov 04
Linear algebra (solving systems of equations, matrix inverse) 
Nov 06
Linear algebra (projection, regression) 
[slides, 8up]
05 Nov 11
Linear algebra (projection, regression) 
Nov 13
Linear algebra (projection, regression) 
06 Nov 18
Linear algebra (projection, regression) 
Nov 20
Linear algebra (eigenvalues/eigenvectors) 
[slides, 8up]
07 Nov 25
Linear algebra (eigenvalues/eigenvectors) 
Nov 27
Linear algebra (SVD) 
[slides, 8up]
08 Dec 02
SVD 
Dec 04
Calculus 
[slides, 8up]
09 Dec 09
Calculus & Regression 
[slides, 8up]
Dec 11
Probability Theory 
[slides, 8up]
10 Dec 16
Probability theory 
Dec 18
Information Theory 
[slides, 8up]
11 Dec 23
Sem. break
Dec 25
Sem. break
12 Dec 30
Sem. break
Jan 01
Sem. break
13 Jan 06
Sem. break
Jan 08
Regression / Wrap up 
[slides, 8up]
14 Jan 13
Generalization, bias, variance, evalation 
[slides, 8up]
Jan 15
Generalization, bias, variance, evalation 
15 Jan 20
Classification 
[slides, 8up]
Jan 22
Classification 
16 Jan 27
Clustering 
[slides, 8up]
Jan 29
Clustering 
17 Feb 03
Summary & QA 
Feb 05
Summary & QA