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HU Credits:
3
Degree/Cycle:
2nd degree (Master)
Responsible Department:
Computer Sciences
Semester:
1st Semester
Teaching Languages:
English and Hebrew
Campus:
E. Safra
Course/Module Coordinator:
Dr. Dafna Shahaf
Coordinator Office Hours:
TBA
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Dafna Shahaf
Course/Module description:
Data Science is an interdisciplinary field that deals with finding patterns in data.
With the ever increasing amounts of digital data, the need for automated methods for data analysis is growing rapidly.
Data science employs techniques from many areas, including statistics, machine learning and databases. It has a wide range of applications, from science and technology through business and society.
Course/Module aims:
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
Attendance requirements(%):
0
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Course/Module Content:
Tentative list of topics to be covered:
* Useful background: Statistical inference
* Similar Items, Distance Measures, Locality-Sensitive Hashing, Similarity-Preserving Summaries
- Text similarity measures and text processing
* Clustering, Hierarchical Clustering, Non-Euclidean Spaces
* Graph Analysis
- Social Networks, community detection, triangles, small world
* Recommendation Systems
* Data Exploration, Visualization, and Feature Engineering
* Experimental design
- Randomized trials vs. observational studies, causality
* MapReduce, Hadoop
* Dimensionality Reduction
* Mining Data Streams
Required Reading:
TBA
Additional Reading Material:
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 5 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 40 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 55 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
Additional information:
Required: Knowledge of at least one programming and/or scripting language.
Basic knowledge of algorithms and probability.
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