DSC 256R: Data Mining on the Web
Course Information
Course Type
Core
Course Description
(Prereq. DSC 215R)
Recommender systems, data mining, and predictive analytics. Building models to understand data in order to gain insights and make predictions. The course presents the material using a variety of applications as examples, including: Text mining, Playlist prediction, Suggestion for Smart Reply, Learning Visual Clothing Style, and Online Advertising. All programming assignments are in Python. Covered topics include: Regression; Classification; Unsupervised learning and dimensionality reduction; Recommender systems; Text mining; Social network analysis; Visualization; Crawling; Online advertising.
