Machine Learning with R - 6-week tutor-led online course
Date:
04/11/2022 - 09/12/2022
Organised by:
Mind Project Ltd
Presenter:
Simon Walkowiak MSc, MBPsS
Level:
Intermediate (some prior knowledge)
Contact:
Simon Walkowiak
Mind Project Ltd
Phone: 02033223786
Email: info@mindproject.co.uk
Venue: Online
Description:
1. Course description.
The powerful statistical capabilities of R programming language include a large selection of built-in methods and third-party libraries that contain an array of machine learning algorithms which can be applied for classification, clustering and predictive analytics. The mixture of weekly live webinars with additional online on-demand instruction videos and several homework exercises throughout the duration of the course will ensure you will be able to apply machine learning algorithms in R language to your own data in a matter of weeks.
This hands-on "Machine Learning with R" course explores practical applications of the most frequently used machine learning approaches such a Multiple Linear, Polynomial (Non-Linear) and Logistic Regressions, k-Means and Hierarchical Clustering, k-Nearest Neighbours, Naive Bayes and Decision Trees algorithms through the R statistical environment. It also provides a good introduction to more advanced techniques e.g. Support Vector Machines, ensembles e.g. Random Forests, adaptive and gradient boosting techniques (AdaBoost, XGBoost etc.) and simple implementations of Artificial Neural Networks.
During the "Machine Learning with R" training course, your will be introduced to a variety of machine learning algorithms for classification and clustering, and their practical scenarios on real-word data using R language. Apart from this, you will learn to evaluate the predictive models based on the obtained classification metrics such as sensitivity, specificity, F-score, Kappa etc., and optimise the accuracy and efficiency of these models using various methods of cross-validation, grid-search and performance boosting.
This course has already been run multiple times and tested both in academic and industry settings. For testimonials from our past learners please visit the course registration website at: https://www.mindproject.io/product/machine-learning-with-r-6-week-tutor-led-online-course-november-2022/.
2. Course programme.
This instructor-led course is planned over 6 teaching weeks. You will attend weekly live webinars with our tutors during which you can ask questions and discuss different machine learning in R problems.
In between the six weekly online live tutorials (2.5 hours long each) you will improve your skills by watching pre-recorded instruction videos via our Mind Project Learning Platform and working through set tasks (e.g. quizzes) as well as homework coding exercises which will require 4-6 hours of your time commitment per week (24-36 hours). We estimate that the total time commitment is 40-50 hours over 6 teaching weeks.
Start date: Friday, 4th of November 2022 @10:00 am London (UK) time
Schedule of sessions: Every Friday at 10:00 am London (UK) time for 6 weeks
Deadline for registrations: Wednesday, 2nd of November 2022 @ 17:00 London (UK) time
Week 1: Introduction to Machine Learning with R with linear and non-linear regressions
- Concepts, terminology and context: unsupervised vs. supervised vs. semi-supervised approaches,
- Overview of methods and applications,
- Preparing data for Machine Learning tasks: revision of probability distributions, data normalisation and standardisation techniques, feature engineering, dealing with missing values,
- Multiple linear regression and selecting suitable predictors with stepwise regression,
- Ridge and lasso regularisation,
- Regression metrics for model evaluation, comparing models,
- Polynomial regression, splines and generalised additive models (GAMs).
Week 2: Unsupervised learning with clustering approaches
- K-means and k-medians clustering,
- Hierarchical clustering,
- Evaluating clustering solutions, describing clusters and estimating cluster profiles,
- Overview of other important clustering methods: mean-shift, DBSCAN, Gaussian mixtures.
Week 3: Binary and multinomial classification - part 1: methods, evaluation metrics, model selection
- Introduction to classification with logistic regression - understanding probabilities and log-odds,
- Model selection and classification metrics: sensitivity, specificity, F score, Kappa, log-loss, R-squared etc.,
- Linear and quadratic discriminant analysis,
- Cross-validation and bootstrapping.
Week 4: Binary and multinomial classification - part 2: overview of other important approaches
- Distance-based classification: k-Nearest Neighbours algorithm,
- Probabilistic Naive Bayes classifier,
- Kernel-based Support Vector Machines,
- Semi-automated and automated tuning of classification models.
Weeks 5 & 6: From decision trees to ensembles and neural networks
- Classification and Regression Trees (CART),
- Estimating variable importance, bagging and boosting,
- Tree-based Random Forests ensemble,
- Adaptive Boosting (AdaBoost) and Extra Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) techniques,
- Introduction to Artificial Neural Networks.
3. Course pre-requisites and further instructions
- We recommend that you have the most recent version of R and R Studio software installed on your PC (any operating system). R is a free and open-source environment and you can download it directly from https://cloud.r-project.org/ website. RStudio Desktop (also free) is available at https://rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/. Please contact us should you have any questions or issues with the installation process. A list of R packages to pre-install before the course will be sent to the enrolled attendees in the Welcome Pack alongside other Joining Instructions.
- We recommend that the attendees have practical experience in data processing or quantitative research – gathered from either professional work or university education/research. A good knowledge of statistics would be beneficial. We suggest that the course is preceded with our “Applied Data Science with R” open-to-public tutor-led online training course.
- Your PC needs to be connected to a stable WiFi/Internet network (either home or office-based) and have Zoom video-conferencing application installed.
- You will need at least one commonly used web browser installed on your PC (e.g. Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge etc.) to access our Mind Project Learning Platform.
Should you have any questions please contact Mind Project Ltd at info@mindproject.co.uk or by phone on 0203 322 3786. Please visit the course website at https://www.mindproject.io/product/machine-learning-with-r-6-week-tutor-led-online-course-november-2022/.
Cost:
By 14th of October 2022 (Early Bird offer): £450 (normally £600) per person for the whole 6-week course (regular fee). £300 (normally £420) per person for the whole course applicable to undergraduate and postgraduate students, representatives of registered charitable organisations and NHS employees only (discounted fee). Additional discounts available for multiple bookings and groups.
Website and registration:
Region:
Greater London
Keywords:
Bayesian methods, Regression Methods, Ordinary least squares (OLS), Generalized liner model (GLM), Linear regression, Logistic regression, Data Mining, Neural networks, Machine learning, Bootstrap simulation , R, Data Visualisation
Related publications and presentations:
Bayesian methods
Regression Methods
Ordinary least squares (OLS)
Generalized liner model (GLM)
Linear regression
Logistic regression
Data Mining
Neural networks
Machine learning
Bootstrap simulation
R
Data Visualisation