Course Outline

Supervised Learning: Classification and Regression

  • Machine Learning in Python: Introduction to the scikit-learn API for government
    • Linear and logistic regression
    • Support vector machine
    • Neural networks
    • Random forest
  • Setting up an End-to-End Supervised Learning Pipeline Using scikit-learn
    • Working with data files for government
    • Imputation of missing values
    • Handling categorical variables
    • Visualizing data

Python Frameworks for AI Applications:

  • TensorFlow, Theano, Caffe, and Keras
  • AI at Scale with Apache Spark: MLlib

Advanced Neural Network Architectures

  • Convolutional neural networks for image analysis
  • Recurrent neural networks for time-structured data
  • The long short-term memory cell

Unsupervised Learning: Clustering, Anomaly Detection

  • Implementing principal component analysis with scikit-learn
  • Implementing autoencoders in Keras

Practical Examples of Problems That AI Can Solve (Hands-On Exercises Using Jupyter Notebooks)

  • Image analysis
  • Forecasting complex financial series, such as stock prices
  • Complex pattern recognition
  • Natural language processing
  • Recommender systems

Understanding Limitations of AI Methods: Modes of Failure, Costs, and Common Difficulties

  • Overfitting
  • Bias/variance trade-off
  • Biases in observational data for government
  • Neural network poisoning

Applied Project Work (Optional)

Requirements

There are no specific prerequisites required to participate in this course for government professionals.

 28 Hours

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