Course Info

DSC 478: Programming Machine Learning Applications

The course will focus on the implementations of various data mining and machine learning techniques using a high-level programming language. Students will have hands on experience developing both supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms and will learn how to employ these techniques in the context of popular applications including automatic personalization, recommender systems, searching and ranking, text mining, group and community discovery, and social media analytics.

(DSC 441 and DSC 430) or CSC 480 are prerequisites for this class.

Fall 2025-2026

Spring 2024-2025

  • Section: 901
  • Class number: 33271
  • Meeting time: Th 5:45PM - 9:00PM
  • Location: LEWIS 01514 at Loop Campus
  • Instructor: Roselyne Tchoua | View syllabus

Winter 2024-2025

  • Section: 801
  • Class number: 22948
  • Meeting time: M 5:45PM - 9:00PM
  • Location: LEWIS 01005 at Loop Campus
  • Instructor: Roselyne Tchoua | View syllabus
  • Section: 802
  • Class number: 23432
  • Meeting time: Th 5:45PM - 9:00PM
  • Location: LEWIS 01516 at Loop Campus
  • Instructor: David Hubbard | View syllabus

Fall 2024-2025

  • Section: 701
  • Class number: 15319
  • Meeting time: Th 5:45PM - 9:00PM
  • Location: LEWIS 01509 at Loop Campus
  • Instructor: David Hubbard | View syllabus

Spring 2023-2024

  • Section: 901
  • Class number: 33345
  • Meeting time: Tu 5:45PM - 9:00PM
  • Location: LEWIS 01111 at Loop Campus
  • Instructor: Roselyne Tchoua | View syllabus

Winter 2023-2024

  • Section: 801
  • Class number: 22959
  • Meeting time: M 5:45PM - 9:00PM
  • Location: LEWIS 01005 at Loop Campus
  • Instructor: Roselyne Tchoua | View syllabus
  • Section: 802
  • Class number: 26269
  • Meeting time: Tu 5:45PM - 9:00PM
  • Location: LEWIS 01516 at Loop Campus
  • Instructor: David Hubbard | View syllabus

Fall 2023-2024

Spring 2022-2023

  • Section: 901
  • Class number: 42269
  • Meeting time: Tu 5:45PM - 9:00PM
  • Location: LEWIS 01509 at Loop Campus
  • Instructor: Carlos Castro Herrera

Winter 2022-2023

  • Section: 801
  • Class number: 28903
  • Meeting time: Th 5:45PM - 9:00PM
  • Location: LEWIS 01508 at Loop Campus
  • Instructor: Roselyne Tchoua | View syllabus
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Fall 2022-2023

Spring 2021-2022

Winter 2021-2022

  • Section: 801
  • Class number: 28595
  • Meeting time: Tu 5:45PM - 9:00PM
  • Location: LEWIS 01508 at Loop Campus
  • Instructor: Roselyne Tchoua | View syllabus

Fall 2021-2022

Spring 2020-2021