Readings and other resources in module order

Syllabus

Course Syllabus, Grading, Policies

Introduction to ICS491

Slides

Theoretical Computer Science Cheat Sheet

All the formulas you need!

Linux Commandline

Learning the Shell commands

How to View Data

Slides

How to think about numeric data

Slides

How to think about categorical data

Slides

Frequent Itemset Mining

Slides

Summarizing Itemset

Slides

Frequent Itemset Mining (LY Slides)

Slides

PyMining

Python Package for Frequent Itemset Mining

Spark MLlib: FP-growth

Spark Library for Frequent Itemset Mining

ICDM 2008 Paper

Collaborative Filtering for Implicit Feedback Datasets

Spark MLlib: Collaborative Filtering

Collaborative Filtering for Implicit Feedback Datasets

Quick Guide to Build a Recommendation Engine in Python

Recommender Systems & Collaborative Filtering

Python Package: Implicit

Fast Python Collaborative Filtering for Implicit Datasets.

Least Squares Approximation

Khan Academy Video

Representative-based Clustering

Slides

Hierarchical Clustering

Slides

Density-based Clustering

Slides

Finding the Number of Clusters

wikipedia

Hadoop

Slides

Spark

Slides

Spark Cluster Overview

Spark Documentation

A Beginner-Friendly Introduction to Containers, VMs and Docker

Virtualization, VMs, Containers, & Docker

Apache Yarn

Overview of Yarn.

Spark: Cluster Computing with Working Sets

Hotcloud 2010 Paper

Resilient Distributed Datasets: A Fault-Tolerant Abstraction for In-memory Cluster Computing

NSDI 2012 Paper

A Tale of Three Apache Spark APIs: RDDs, DataFrames and Datasets

Web Article

Who uses Spark

Notable users of Spark

Spark SQL, DataFrames and Datasets Guide

Spark Documentation

Machine Learning Library (MLlib) Guide

Spark Documentation

Probabilistic Classification

Slides

Topic Modeling using LDA

Slides

Latent Dirichlet Allocation

Topic Modeling

The exponential family: Conjugate priors

Book Chapter

Decision Tree Classifier

Slides

Decision Trees in Spark

MLLib documentation

High Dimensional Data

Slides

Dimensionality Reduction

Slides

Dimensionality Reduction in Spark

MLLib documentation

Thinking Visually in High Dimensions

Video

Visualizing High-Dimensional Data: Advances in the Past Decade

Survey Paper

Visualizing High-Dimensional Space

Video (3min)

Multidimensional Data Visualization

Slides

t-SNE

website on t-sne

Linear Discriminant Analysis

Slides

SVM

Slides

SVM in spark

MLLib documentation

Logistic Regression

book chapter

Logistic Regression

slides

SVM vs Logistic Regression

slides

tf-idf & the Vector Space Model

Slides

Distributed Word Representations

Slides

Ranking of Search Engines

Text Search

Preprocessing Text Data

Feature Extraction

Preprocessing Audio Data

Feature Extraction

Preprocessing Image Data

Feature Extraction

A Deep Learning Tutorial

From Perceptrons to Deep Networks

Web Tutorial

Neural Computation 2006

A fast learning algorithm for deep belief nets

Academic Paper

Deep Learning (2015)

Nature, Vol. 521, pp 436-444

Nature Article

A practical guide to training restricted Boltzmann machines

Geoff Hinton

Tech Report

A Tutorial on Deep Learning

Part 2: Autoencoders, Convolutional Neural Networks and Recurrent Neural Networks

Tutorial (PDF)

Long Short Term Memory

Understanding RNN & LSTM networks

Web article

But what is a neural network?

Deep Learning Ch 1

Youtube Video (19min)

Gradient Descent: how neural networks learn

Deep Learning Ch 2

Youtube Video (21min)

What is backpropagation?

Deep Learning Ch 3

Youtube Video (14min)

Recent Developments in Deep Learning (2010)

Google Tech Talk

Youtube Video

Deep Learning

NN, RNN, LSTM, Autoencoders, Deep Networks

Slides

Convolution Neural Networks

Image Classification using CNN

Slides

Weapons of Math Destruction Ch.0

Introduction

pdf

Weapons of Math Destruction Ch.1

Chapter 1

pdf

Recent Critiques of Big Data

Small Bibliography

list of links

Data Sets

where to get some data …

data