01 | Principles of Machine Learning

Cynthia Rudin | MIT Sloan School of Management

Stephen F Elston | Principle Consultant, Quantia Analytics, LLC
Outline

What is machine learning

Applications of machine learning
Your instructors
Getting the most from this course
Machine Learning

Is it really possible for computers to observe the world and learn

on their own?
vs.

More experience?
More complex?
More flexible?
Prediction Analysis Labs Recent Applications
Predicting when parts of the power grid are likely to fail in
NYC
Detecting crime series in Cambridge MA
Predicting which released prisoners are likely to commit
crimes in the US
Predicting whether a customer will accept a coupon for a
local restaurant while driving
Predicting how well someone will recover from
prostatectomy surgery
Machine Learning Applications for this course
Classification of diabetes patients likely to be readmitted to a
hospital
Forecasting demand for rented bicycles
Segmentation of people by income level
Computing restaurant recommendations
Why this course?
Hands on introduction to ML
Overview of all the major focus areas of ML
Limiting the tedious bits with user-friendly Azure ML
Build skills in R or Python
Lots of intuition
Requires calculus, and minimal linear algebra
Cynthia Rudin

Associate professor of statistics, MIT, Associate Professor of

Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering
at Duke
Core expertise in machine learning and data mining
Leads the Prediction Analysis Lab
PhD in applied and computational mathematics, Princeton
University
Experience in electric power industry, healthcare,
computational criminology
Steve Elston
Co-founder and principle consultant
Quantia Analytics, LLC
Decades of experience in predictive analytics and machine
learning
Long term R and S/SPLUS user
Azure ML advisor to Microsoft
Experience in several industries: payment, telecom, capital
markets, logistics
PhD in Geophysics from Princeton University
Getting the most from this course

Course is organized into six modules

Each module includes lectures and labs
Labs reinforce key concepts
Labs performed with Microsoft Azure Machine Learning and
either R or Python
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