Weekly plans and update for week 46_澳门葡京手机版app下载

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2020-11-09T22:32:34.741Z
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Dear All, we hope you are all doing well and staying healthy.

First, and perhaps most importantly, we are still allowed to have the in-person labs. We will let you know asap if this changes.

Else, last week we discussed ensemble methods like boosting, bagging, voting and random forests.

On Thursday we will wrap up our discussion on gradient boosting with further examples during the first lecture. For the second lecture on Thursday (115pm-2pm)

Iwe will have a guest lecturer, John Aiken, who is an expert on applications of gradient boosting and xgboost applied to social sciences. John recently defended his thesis, where the primary focus was on boosting methods applied to data from the social sciences.

On Friday we start with our second-last topics: Support Vector Machines for classifi...