Spring 2022 - STAT430
Unsupervised Learning

Lecture Materials
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 Schedule
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Date Topics Materials Assignments
Wednesday, January 19, 2022 Class Introduction
Class Introduction
Friday, January 21, 2022 Unit 1: Introduction to Clustering
01_Introduction_to_Clustering
In-Class Exercise
Monday, January 24, 2022 Finishing Unit 1
Unit 2: Types of Clustering Algorithms		 02_Types_of_Clustering_Algorithms
Wednesday, January 26, 2022 Lecture

Friday, January 28, 2022 Unit 3: Clustering Evaluation Metrics 03_Clustering_Evaluation_Metrics
 Assignment 1 Due at 11:59pm CST on Compass
Monday, January 31, 2022 Lecture

Wednesday, February 2, 2022 Lecture

Friday, February 4, 2022 Unit 4: Checking Clustering Properties with t-SNE Plots
04_Checking_Clustering_Conditions_with_tsne
 Assignment 2 Due at 11:59pm CST on Compass
Monday, February 7, 2022 Lecture

Wednesday, February 9, 2022 Unit 5: Hierarchical Clustering
05_Hierarchical_Clustering
Friday, February 11, 2022 Lecture
Assignment 3 Due at 11:59pm CST on Compass
Monday, February 14, 2022 Lecture

Wednesday, February 16, 2022 Unit 6: Categorical Data Clustering
06_Categorical_Data_Clustering
Friday, February 18, 2022 Lecture
Assignment 4 Due at 11:59pm CST on Compass
Monday, February 21, 2022 Lecture

Wednesday, February 23, 2022 Unit 7: More Clustering Evaluation Metrics
07_More_Evaluation_Metrics
Friday, February 25, 2022 Unit 8: DBSCAN
08_DBSCAN		 Assignment 5 Due at 11:59pm CST on Compass
Monday, February 28, 2022 Lecture

Wednesday, March 2, 2022 Lecture
Unit_09_Fuzzy_c_means
Friday, March 4, 2022 Lecture
Assignment 6 Due at 11:59pm CST on Compass
Monday, March 7, 2022 Unit 10: Principal Component Analysis (PCA)
10_PCA
Wednesday, March 9, 2022 Lecture

Friday, March 11, 2022 Lecture
Assignment 7 Due at 11:59pm CST on Compass
Monday, March 14, 2022 SPRING BREAK - NO CLASS

Wednesday, March 16, 2022 SPRING BREAK - NO CLASS

Friday, March 18, 2022 SPRING BREAK - NO CLASS

Monday, March 21, 2022 Lecture

Wednesday, March 23, 2022 Unit 11: Gaussian Mixture Model Clustering
11_Gaussian_Mixture_Models
Friday, March 25, 2022 Lecture
Assignment 8 Due at 11:59pm CST on Compass
Monday, March 28, 2022 Unit 12: NMF Clustering
12_NMF
I added an "extra" pdf as well as updated the ipynb file on Monday
Wednesday, March 30, 2022 Lecture

Friday, April 1, 2022 Lecture
Assignment 9 Due at 11:59pm CST on Compass
Monday, April 4, 2022 Lecture

Wednesday, April 6, 2022 Unit 13: BIRCH Clustering
13_BIRCH

Friday, April 8, 2022 Lecture
Assignment 10 Due at 11:59pm CST on Compass
Monday, April 11, 2022 Lecture

Wednesday, April 13, 2022 Unit 14: Mini-Batch k-Means
14_Mini_Batch_KMeans

Friday, April 15, 2022 Unit 15: Self-Organizing Maps
15_SOM		 Assignment 11 Due at 11:59pm CST on Compass
Monday, April 18, 2022 Lecture

Wednesday, April 20, 2022 Unit 16: Spectral Clustering
16_Spectral_Clustering
Friday, April 22, 2022 Lecture
Assignment 12 Due at 11:59pm CST on Compass
Monday, April 25, 2022 Lecture

Wednesday, April 27, 2022 Unit 17: Latent Dirichlet Allocation
17_Latent_Dirichlet_Allocation (The old application pdf file had too many pages. The current one in this zip file is cleaner)
Friday, April 29, 2022 Lecture

Monday, May 2, 2022 Lecture
18_tsne_algorithm
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 Last Lecture Day - Review
Final Review
Thursday, May 12, 2022 Final Project Presentations 
 7pm-10pm CST
7pm CST Final Project Materials Due on Compass