MATH:5760:0AAA Mathematical Biology II
Module 6: Machine Learning
Spring 2024
Time: 12:30P - 1:20P MWF    Location: 218 MLH

Instructor:  Dr. Isabel K. Darcy
Department of Mathematics and AMCS
University of Iowa
Office: MLH 25J
Phone: 319-335- 0770
Email: isabel-darcy AT uiowa.edu

Ways to get help:

HW will consist of weekly labs and ICON quizzes, etc.
Our final exam will consist of 3 parts:

TENTATIVE CLASS SCHEDULE-ALL DATES SUBJECT TO CHANGE (click on date/section for file of corresponding class material):

Tentative ScheduleFridays/HW/Announcements
Week 9
3/18 Introduction to data analysis 3/22: LAB 1: creating artificial data, downloading real data, intro to cleaning data, PCA
3/20 Data cleaning, PCA, intro to ML
Week 10
3/25 Clustering 3/29: LAB 2: Clustering
3/27 Hierarchical Clustering, Noise
Week 11
4/1 k-means clustering, Linear Regression 4/5: LAB 2: Clustering / LAB 3: Linear regression
4/3 Linear Regression, p-values
Week 12
4/10 p-values, data cleaning Linear Regression, Variance 4/8 LAB 3: Linear regression
4/12 Variance, PCA
Week 13
4/17 Logistic Regression 4/15 LAB 4: p-values/artificial data
Poster draft 1 due Friday 4/19
4/19 Logistic Regression
Week 14
4/24 Test/Train, Data Leakage, Bias/Variance, Shrinkage 4/22 LAB 5: Logistic regression
Poster draft 2 due Friday 4/26
4/26 E
Week 15
5/1 Ethics, reproducible research, publication bias, data privacy 4/29 LAB 6: Regression (single vs multi-variable)
Poster draft 3 and written project draft due Tuesday 4/30
5/3 Presentations.
5/3 multi-variable linear regression (see ICON for notes)
Final's week
5/7 10:00AM - 12:00PM 05/07/2024 Tue 218 MLH Final exam: More Presentations.