Quarter
Faculty Reference
Subhash Suri
Course Type
Course Area
Foundations
Enrollment Code
49239
Location
Phelp 2510
Units
4
Day and Time
MW 9:00-10:50
Course Website
Course Description
This is new gradaute-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-dimensionsl space
Matrix methods
Machine learning
Clustering
Graph models
The course work will consist of both programming and theory projects.