Machine Learning (ECON484) Course Detail

Course Name Course Code Season Lecture Hours Application Hours Lab Hours Credit ECTS
Machine Learning ECON484 3 0 0 3 5
Pre-requisite Course(s)
N/A
Course Language English
Course Type N/A
Course Level Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery
Learning and Teaching Strategies .
Course Coordinator
Course Lecturer(s)
  • Specialist Bora Güngören
Course Assistants
Course Objectives The main contents are, supervised learning unsupervised learning ; learning theory ; reinforcement learning and adaptive control. The course will also discuss recent applications of machine learning, such as to robotic control, data mining, autonomous navigation, bioinformatics, speech recognition, and text and web data processing and evaluation of policies and programs.
Course Learning Outcomes The students who succeeded in this course;
  • Upon the completion of this course, the student will be able to: 1. Define and model the data structure under investigation;
  • 2. use mathematical models and solve for equilibrium. Also models will be used analyze the policies related to various research field.
  • 3. Duruma dayalı karar almayı desteklemek için büyük verilerin nasıl kullanılacağına ilişkin ilkeleri öğrenecektir.
Course Content Supervised learning, unsupervised learning; learning theory; reinforcement learning and adaptive control; recent applications of machine learning, such as to robotic control, data mining, autonomous navigation, bioinformatics, speech recognition, and text and web data processing and evaluation of policies and programs.

Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies

Week Subjects Preparation
1 Introduction and Basic Concepts Lecture notes available
2 Supervised Learning Setup. Linear Regression. Discussion Section: Linear Algebra Lecture notes available
3 Weighted Least Squares. Logistic Regression. Netwon's Method Lecture notes available
4 Perceptron. Exponential Family. Generalized Linear Models. Discussion Section: Probability Lecture notes available
5 Gaussian Discriminant Analysis Lecture notes available
6 Midterm Exam
7 Naive Bayes. Laplace Smoothing. Kernel Methods. Discussion Section: Python Lecture notes available
8 SVM. Kernels. Lecture notes available
9 Neural Network. Discussion Section: Learning Theory Lecture notes available
10 Bias/ Variance. Regularization. Feature/ Model selection. Discussion Section: Evaluation Metrics Lecture notes available
11 Practical Advice for ML projects Lecture notes available
12 K-means. Mixture of Gaussians. Expectation Maximization. Lecture notes available
13 GMM(EM). Factor Analysis. Lecture notes available
14 Principal Component Analysis. Independent Component Analysis. Lecture notes available
15 MDPs. Bellman Equations. Value iteration and policy iteration Lecture notes available
16 Final Exam

Sources

Other Sources 1. Ders Notları / Lecture notes available

Evaluation System

Requirements Number Percentage of Grade
Attendance/Participation 15 10
Laboratory - -
Application - -
Field Work - -
Special Course Internship - -
Quizzes/Studio Critics - -
Homework Assignments - -
Presentation 1 20
Project - -
Report - -
Seminar - -
Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury 1 20
Final Exam/Final Jury 1 50
Toplam 18 100
Percentage of Semester Work
Percentage of Final Work 100
Total 100

Course Category

Core Courses X
Major Area Courses
Supportive Courses
Media and Managment Skills Courses
Transferable Skill Courses

The Relation Between Course Learning Competencies and Program Qualifications

# Program Qualifications / Competencies Level of Contribution
1 2 3 4 5
1 Acquiring the skills of understanding, explaining, and using the fundamental concepts and methods of economics
2 Acquiring the skills of macro level economic analysis
3 Acquiring the skills of micro level economic analysis
4 Understanding the formulation and implementation of economic policies at the local, national, regional, and/or global level
5 Learning different approaches on economic and related issues
6 Acquiring the quantitative and/or qualitative techniques in economic analysis X
7 Improving the ability to use the modern software, hardware and/or technological devices X
8 Developing intra-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary team work skills
9 Acquiring an open-minded behavior through encouraging critical analysis, discussions, and/or life-long learning
10 Adopting work ethic and social responsibility
11 Developing the skills of communication.
12 Improving the ability to effectively implement the knowledge and skills in at least one of the following areas: economic policy, public policy, international economic relations, industrial relations, monetary and financial affairs.

ECTS/Workload Table

Activities Number Duration (Hours) Total Workload
Course Hours (Including Exam Week: 16 x Total Hours) 16 3 48
Laboratory
Application
Special Course Internship
Field Work
Study Hours Out of Class 16 3 48
Presentation/Seminar Prepration 1 5 5
Project
Report
Homework Assignments
Quizzes/Studio Critics
Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury 1 10 10
Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury 1 15 15
Total Workload 126