Amsterdam, Netherlands
New Media and the Digitalisation of Everyday Life
When:
20 July - 07 August 2025
Credits:
6 EC
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Social Sciences
When:
25 August - 26 August 2022
School:
UoG Q-Step Centre’s Summer School
Institution:
University of Glasgow
City:
Country:
Language:
English
Credits:
0.0 EC
Fee:
70 GBP
Machine learning methods involve methods that deal with multivariate data, learning hidden structures and prediction. In particular within prediction methods, classification is a special case where explanatory variables are used to predict which one of a number of classes an object belongs to, e.g. is an email spam or not spam, is a person likely to vote for a particular party over the others, etc. For multivariate data you may wish to reduce the number of variables for either simpler modelling or to try to discover hidden concepts within the data.
This course will look at a subset of these types of methods including: principal component and a brief discussion of factor analysis, classification using k-nearest neighbours, classification and regression trees and discriminant analysis classification. In addition to lectures giving background on the methods and the intuition behind them to aid understanding, there will be computing sessions in R showing how to implement these methods on real data examples.
Dr Nema Dean
Students (all groups) and researchers who have familiarity with R and basics of statistics (linear regression, normal distributions and probability).
To provide a general and applied introduction to concepts and techniques in machine learning.
Fee
70 GBP, (For registration and payment, please contact: socsci-qstep@glasgow.ac.uk)
When:
25 August - 26 August 2022
School:
UoG Q-Step Centre’s Summer School
Institution:
University of Glasgow
Language:
English
Credits:
0.0 EC
Amsterdam, Netherlands
When:
20 July - 07 August 2025
Credits:
6 EC
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London, United Kingdom
When:
30 June - 18 July 2025
Credits:
7.5 EC
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Copenhagen, Denmark
When:
23 June - 25 July 2025
Credits:
7.5 EC
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