Machine Learning using R

Instructor

• Instructor: Linh B. Ngo;

• Office: 2119 Barre Hall, Clemson University

• Email: lngo@clemson.edu;

Workshop Description

Machine learning is the science of teaching computers to reproduce the assigned procedure without being explicitly programmed. It has been used in many practical applications such as self-driving cars, speech recognition, email spam classification. It has been widely used not only in engineering (hydroinformatics, bioinformatics, genomics, geosciences and remote sensing, mechatronics) but also in economy, health sciences and even in real estates industry. This workshop provides an overall introduction to machine learning specifically with R programming language which utilizes abundance of R statistical packages. Such topics include: (1) Supervised learning (regression analysis, distance-based algorithm, regularization algorithm, tree-based algorithm, Bayes algorithm, support vector machines, artificial neural networks). (2) Unsupervised learning (clustering, dimensionality reduction). The course will also draw from numerous case studies and applications that can be applied in different engineering programs.

Prerequisites

Pre-requisite for the course is Introduction to R programming, offered by CITI team.