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Mathematics for Data Science

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Course Information

Subject code

MATH

Subject Code Description

Mathematics

Course Number

3600

Course Title

Mathematics for Data Science

Course Description (Combined)

Prerequisite: MATH 3305; and MATH 1123 or BIOL 3090 or MATH 3470 or PSY 2100; or consent of instructor

This course presents the mathematics of data science methods to promote effective and efficient application as well as innovation in the field. Topics include the bias-variance trade-off, singular value decomposition, principal component analysis and its application to Google's page rank algorithm, gradient descent, support vector machines, kernels, and neural networks. Additional topics may include metric spaces and K-nearest neighbors, information theory. A programming language such as Python, together with relevant Data Science libraries, like TensorFlow, will be used.

Credit: 3