CS 292F: Foundations of Data Science
Subhash Suri
M-W 9:00 - 10:50
Room: PHELPS 2510
Administrative Stuff
- Office Hours: Wed 11-12 (HFH 2111).
Course Description
This is new graduate-level course on mathematical foundations of data science,
based on the forthcoming book Foundations of Data Science by
Avrim Blum, John Hopcroft and Ravi Kannan. The current draft of the book is
available at http://www.cs.cornell.edu/jeh/book2016June9.pdf
The course will primarily focus on the following topics:
- Geometry of high-dimensional space
- Matrix methods
- Machine learning
- Clustering
- Graph models
The course work will consist of both programming and theory projects.
Homework Assignments
- 1. Homework #1. Due Oct 17.
- 2. Homework #2. Due Nov 2.
- 2. Homework #3. Due Nov 21.
Subhash Suri
Professor
Computer Science Department
Room 2111, Engr I
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106