Advanced Machine Learning with R Training Course

Duration

21 hours (usually 3 days including breaks)

Requirements

  • R programming experience
  • An understanding of machine learning concepts

Overview

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn advanced techniques for Machine Learning with R as they step through the creation of a real-world application.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

  • Understand and implement unsupervised learning techniques
  • Apply clustering and classification to make predictions based on real world data.
  • Visualize data to quicly gain insights, make decisions and further refine analysis.
  • Improve the performance of a machine learning model using hyper-parameter tuning.
  • Put a model into production for use in a larger application.
  • Apply advanced machine learning techniques to answer questions involving social network data, big data, and more.

Audience

  • Developers
  • Analysts
  • Data scientists

Format of the course

  • Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

Course Outline

Introduction

Setting up the R Development Environment

Deep Learning vs Neural Network vs Machine Learning

Building an Unsupervised Learning Model

Case Study: Predicting an Outcome Using Existing Data

Preparing Test and Training Data Sets For Analysis

Clustering Data

Classifying Data

Visualizing Data

Evaluating the Performance of a Model

Iterating Through Model Parameters

Hyper-parameter Tuning 

Integrating a Model with a Real-World Application

Deploying a Machine Learning Application

Troubleshooting

Summary and Conclusion

Encog: Advanced Machine Learning Training Course

Duration

14 hours (usually 2 days including breaks)

Requirements

  • Java or .Net programming experience
  • An understanding of machine learning concepts

Overview

Encog is an open-source machine learning framework for Java and .Net.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn advanced machine learning techniques for building accurate neural network predictive models.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

  • Implement different neural networks optimization techniques to resolve underfitting and overfitting
  • Understand and choose from a number of neural network architectures
  • Implement supervised feed forward and feedback networks

Audience

  • Developers
  • Analysts
  • Data scientists

Format of the course

  • Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

Course Outline

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Advanced Machine Learning with Python Training Course

Duration

21 hours (usually 3 days including breaks)

Requirements

  • Python programming experience
  • An understanding of basic principles of machine learning

Audience

  • Developers
  • Analysts
  • Data scientists

Overview

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn the most relevant and cutting-edge machine learning techniques in Python as they build a series of demo applications involving image, music, text, and financial data.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

  • Implement machine learning algorithms and techniques for solving complex problems.
  • Apply deep learning and semi-supervised learning to applications involving image, music, text, and financial data.
  • Push Python algorithms to their maximum potential.
  • Use libraries and packages such as NumPy and Theano.

Format of the course

  • Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

Course Outline

Introduction

Describing the Structure of Unlabled Data

  • Unsupervised Machine Learning

Recognizing, Clustering and Generating Images, Video Sequences and Motion-capture Data

  • Deep Belief Networks (DBNs)

Reconstructing the Original Input Data from a Corrupted (Noisy) Version

  • Feature Selection and Extraction
  • Stacked Denoising Auto-encoders

Analyzing Visual Images

  • Convolutional Neural Networks

Gaining a Better Understanding of the Structure of Data

  • Semi-Supervised Learning

Understanding Text Data

  • Text Feature Extraction

Building Highly Accurate Predictive Models

  • Improving Machine Learning Results
  • Ensemble Methods

Summary and Conclusion