Machine Learning (ECON484) Course Detail

Course Name Course Code Season Lecture Hours Application Hours Lab Hours Credit ECTS
Machine Learning ECON484 General Elective 3 0 0 3 5
Pre-requisite Course(s)
N/A
Course Language English
Course Type Elective Courses
Course Level Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery
Learning and Teaching Strategies .
Course Coordinator
Course Lecturer(s)
  • Specialist Bora Güngören
Course Assistants
Course Objectives The main contents are, supervised learning unsupervised learning ; learning theory ; reinforcement learning and adaptive control. The course will also discuss recent applications of machine learning, such as to robotic control, data mining, autonomous navigation, bioinformatics, speech recognition, and text and web data processing and evaluation of policies and programs.
Course Learning Outcomes The students who succeeded in this course;
  • Upon the completion of this course, the student will be able to: 1. Define and model the data structure under investigation;
  • 2. use mathematical models and solve for equilibrium. Also models will be used analyze the policies related to various research field.
  • 3. Duruma dayalı karar almayı desteklemek için büyük verilerin nasıl kullanılacağına ilişkin ilkeleri öğrenecektir.
Course Content Supervised learning, unsupervised learning; learning theory; reinforcement learning and adaptive control; recent applications of machine learning, such as to robotic control, data mining, autonomous navigation, bioinformatics, speech recognition, and text and web data processing and evaluation of policies and programs.

Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies

Week Subjects Preparation
1 Introduction and Basic Concepts Lecture notes available
2 Supervised Learning Setup. Linear Regression. Discussion Section: Linear Algebra Lecture notes available
3 Weighted Least Squares. Logistic Regression. Netwon's Method Lecture notes available
4 Perceptron. Exponential Family. Generalized Linear Models. Discussion Section: Probability Lecture notes available
5 Gaussian Discriminant Analysis Lecture notes available
6 Midterm Exam
7 Naive Bayes. Laplace Smoothing. Kernel Methods. Discussion Section: Python Lecture notes available
8 SVM. Kernels. Lecture notes available
9 Neural Network. Discussion Section: Learning Theory Lecture notes available
10 Bias/ Variance. Regularization. Feature/ Model selection. Discussion Section: Evaluation Metrics Lecture notes available
11 Practical Advice for ML projects Lecture notes available
12 K-means. Mixture of Gaussians. Expectation Maximization. Lecture notes available
13 GMM(EM). Factor Analysis. Lecture notes available
14 Principal Component Analysis. Independent Component Analysis. Lecture notes available
15 MDPs. Bellman Equations. Value iteration and policy iteration Lecture notes available
16 Final Exam

Sources

Other Sources 1. Ders Notları / Lecture notes available

Evaluation System

Requirements Number Percentage of Grade
Attendance/Participation 15 10
Laboratory - -
Application - -
Field Work - -
Special Course Internship - -
Quizzes/Studio Critics - -
Homework Assignments - -
Presentation 1 20
Project - -
Report - -
Seminar - -
Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury 1 20
Final Exam/Final Jury 1 50
Toplam 18 100
Percentage of Semester Work
Percentage of Final Work 100
Total 100

Course Category

Core Courses X
Major Area Courses
Supportive Courses
Media and Managment Skills Courses
Transferable Skill Courses

The Relation Between Course Learning Competencies and Program Qualifications

# Program Qualifications / Competencies Level of Contribution
1 2 3 4 5
1 Has the ability to apply scientific knowledge gained in the undergraduate education and to expand and extend knowledge in the same or in a different area
2 Can apply gained knowledge and problem solving abilities in inter-disciplinary research
3 Has the ability to work independently within research area, to state the problem, to develop solution techniques, to solve the problem, to evaluate the obtained results and to apply them when necessary
4 Takes responsibility individually and as a team member to improve systematic approaches to produce solutions in unexpected complicated situations related to the area of study
5 Can develop strategies, implement plans and principles on the area of study and can evaluate obtained results within the framework
6 Can develop and extend the knowledge in the area and to use them with scientific, social and ethical responsibility
7 Has the ability to follow recent developments within the area of research, to support research with scientific arguments and data, to communicate the information on the area of expertise in a systematically by means of written report and oral/visual presentation
8 To have an oral and written communication ability in at least one of the common foreign languages ("European Language Portfolio Global Scale", Level B2)
9 Has software and hardware knowledge in the area of expertise, and has proficient information and communication technology knowledge
10 Follows scientific, cultural, and ethical criteria in collecting, interpreting and announcing data in the research area and has the ability to teach.
11 Has professional ethical consciousness and responsibility which takes into account the universal and social dimensions in the process of data collection, interpretation, implementation and declaration of results in mathematics and its applications.

ECTS/Workload Table

Activities Number Duration (Hours) Total Workload
Course Hours (Including Exam Week: 16 x Total Hours) 16 3 48
Laboratory
Application
Special Course Internship
Field Work
Study Hours Out of Class 16 3 48
Presentation/Seminar Prepration 1 5 5
Project
Report
Homework Assignments
Quizzes/Studio Critics
Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury 1 10 10
Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury 1 15 15
Total Workload 126