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Course-Outline - Introduction To ML

The course outline for 'Introduction to Machine Learning' covers fundamental concepts of ML, including types, Python libraries, data handling, feature engineering, and various models such as regression, classification, and neural networks. It also addresses ensemble learning, clustering, recommender systems, model evaluation, and includes a capstone project for practical application. The course emphasizes hands-on experience with data science tools and techniques throughout.

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Course-Outline - Introduction To ML

The course outline for 'Introduction to Machine Learning' covers fundamental concepts of ML, including types, Python libraries, data handling, feature engineering, and various models such as regression, classification, and neural networks. It also addresses ensemble learning, clustering, recommender systems, model evaluation, and includes a capstone project for practical application. The course emphasizes hands-on experience with data science tools and techniques throughout.

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Course Outline: Introduction to Machine Learning (BSCS)

1. Introduction to Machine Learning (ML)

 Definition and significance of ML in real-world applications.


 Types of Machine Learning:
o Supervised Learning
o Unsupervised Learning
o Reinforcement Learning

2. Python Libraries for Data Science

 Numpy: Array operations, broadcasting, and matrix manipulations.


 Pandas: DataFrame operations, filtering, grouping, and handling missing data.
 Matplotlib & Seaborn: Data visualization basics, creating line plots, scatter plots, bar
plots, and heatmaps.

3. Working with Data

 File Formats:
o Reading and writing CSV, JSON files.
 Fetching Data:
o API integration: Making requests and parsing responses.
o Web Scraping: Using libraries like BeautifulSoup and Scrapy.
 Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA):
o Univariate, bivariate, and multivariate analysis.

4. Feature Engineering and Preprocessing

 Feature Scaling:
o Standardization, Min-Max Scaling, Normalization.
 Encoding Techniques:
o One-Hot Encoding, Binary Encoding, and Mixed-Value Handling.
 Function Transformation:
o Power Transformations (Box-Cox), Log Transformation.
 Feature Construction and Binning:
o Date and time features, binning numerical data.
 Handling Missing Data:
o Techniques for univariate, bivariate, and multivariate imputation.
 Outlier Detection:
o Identifying and handling outliers using statistical methods and visualization.
 Curse of Dimensionality:
o Dimensionality reduction techniques (e.g., PCA).

5. Regression Models

 Linear Regression:
o Mean Squared Error (MSE), Mean Absolute Error (MAE).
o Gradient Descent (Batch, Stochastic, and Mini-Batch).
 Logistic Regression:
o Sigmoid function, its derivative, and applications.
o Softmax function for multi-class classification.

6. Classification Models

 Naive Bayes Classifier:


o Working with categorical and continuous data.
 Decision Tree Classifier:
o Understanding splits, Gini index, and entropy.

7. Ensemble Learning

 Voting Ensembles:
o Hard and Soft Voting.
 Bagging:
o Random Forest: Working with decision trees in ensemble settings.
 Boosting:
o AdaBoost, Gradient Boosting.

8. Clustering

 K-Means Clustering:
o Initialization, optimization, and evaluation of clusters.
9. Neural Networks

 Introduction to Neural Networks:


o Architecture (Input, Hidden, and Output layers).
o Activation Functions (ReLU, Sigmoid, Tanh).
o Backpropagation.

10. Recommender Systems

 Content-Based Filtering:
o Using item features to recommend similar items.
 Collaborative Filtering:
o User-user and item-item similarity.
 Matrix Factorization Techniques (e.g., SVD).

11. Model Evaluation and Optimization

 Metrics:
o Accuracy, Precision, Recall, F1 Score.
 Bias-Variance Tradeoff:
o Underfitting and Overfitting.

12. Capstone Project

 End-to-end implementation of an ML project:


o Data collection, cleaning, preprocessing, model selection, evaluation, and
deployment.

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