Motivation and pre-requisites

Jeffrey Leek
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

About this course

Thiscoursecoversthebasicideasbehindmachinelearning/prediction
Studydesigntrainingvs.testsets
Conceptualissuesoutofsampleerror,ROCcurves
Practicalimplementationthecaretpackage
Whatthiscoursedependson
TheDataScientist'sToolbox
RProgramming
Whatwouldbeuseful
Exploratoryanalysis
ReportingDataandReproducibleResearch
Regressionmodels

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Who predicts?
Localgovernments>pensionpayments
Google>whetheryouwillclickonanad
Amazon>whatmoviesyouwillwatch
Insurancecompanies>whatyourriskofdeathis
JohnsHopkins>whowillsucceedintheirprograms

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Why predict? Glory!

http://www.zimbio.com/photos/Chris+Volinsky

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Why predict? Riches!

http://www.heritagehealthprize.com/c/hhp

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Why predict? For sport!

http://www.kaggle.com/

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Why predict? To save lives!

http://www.oncotypedx.com/enUS/Home

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A useful (if a bit advanced) book

Theelementsofstatisticallearning

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A useful package

http://caret.rforge.rproject.org/

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Machine learning (more advanced material)

https://www.coursera.org/course/ml

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Even more resources

ListofmachinelearningresourcesonQuora
ListofmachinelearningresourcesfromScience
AdvancednotesfromMITopencourseware
AdvancednotesfromCMU
Kagglemachinelearningcompetitions

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