Course Outline

Machine Learning Algorithms in Julia for Government

Introductory Concepts

  • Supervised and unsupervised learning
  • Cross-validation and model selection
  • Bias/variance tradeoff

Linear and Logistic Regression for Government

(NaiveBayes and GLM)

  • Introductory concepts
  • Fitting linear regression models
  • Model diagnostics
  • Naive Bayes
  • Fitting a logistic regression model
  • Model diagnostics
  • Model selection methods

Distances for Government

  • What is a distance?
  • Euclidean
  • Cityblock
  • Cosine
  • Correlation
  • Mahalanobis
  • Hamming
  • Mean absolute deviation (MAD)
  • Root mean squared (RMS)
  • Mean squared deviation

Dimensionality Reduction for Government

  • Principal Component Analysis (PCA)
    • Linear PCA
    • Kernel PCA
    • Probabilistic PCA
    • Independent component analysis (ICA)
  • Multidimensional scaling

Altered Regression Methods for Government

  • Basic concepts of regularization
  • Ridge regression
  • Lasso regression
  • Principal component regression (PCR)

Clustering for Government

  • K-means
  • K-medoids
  • DBSCAN
  • Hierarchical clustering
  • Markov Cluster Algorithm
  • Fuzzy C-means clustering

Standard Machine Learning Models for Government

(NearestNeighbors, DecisionTree, LightGBM, XGBoost, EvoTrees, LIBSVM packages)

  • Gradient boosting concepts
  • K nearest neighbors (KNN)
  • Decision tree models
  • Random forest models
  • XGBoost
  • EvoTrees
  • Support vector machines (SVM)

Artificial Neural Networks for Government

(Flux package)

  • Stochastic gradient descent and strategies
  • Multilayer perceptrons: forward feed and back propagation
  • Regularization techniques
  • Recurrent neural networks (RNN)
  • Convolutional neural networks (ConvNets)
  • Autoencoders
  • Hyperparameters optimization

Requirements

This course is designed for individuals who already possess a background in data science and statistics, with a focus on enhancing skills applicable to public sector workflows, governance, and accountability for government.
 21 Hours

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