Dr. Dale E. Parson Class will be live face-to-face or on-line at class time via Zoom.
Mon 6-8:50 PM, Zoom classes & recordings, https://faculty.kutztown.edu/parson
Class-time Zoom link for CSC523: See D2L Course CSC523 -> Content -> Overview for the link.
Student instructions for using Zoom.
IF you don’t want to be recorded or are a minor, use PRIVATE ZOOM CHAT to me for questions.
Please fill out & email Dr. Parson this permission to record slip. I will use it to take attendance in week 1.
Dr. Dale E. Parson, parson@kutztown.edu, Office hours: https://kutztown.zoom.us/j/94322223872
Office Hours Mon 11 AM-1 PM, Wed 12-2 PM, Th 4-5 PM, or by appt . All available via Zoom.


You will need to use the acad Linux server in this course. You will have to come in
via a VPN starting this fall. Here are the instructions for that. Download the VPN from here.
Run ssh K120023GEMS.kutztown.edu after logging into acad to perform make test and other work. 

KU offers a 4-course Graduate Certificate in Data Analytics. Talk with me if you want to sign up.

Our department is adding a Scripting Certificate, a Data Science major, and a Data Science minor in fall 2024.
    Instructions to Change, Add, Remove an UNDERGRADUATE Major, Minor or Certificate Program
 

First day handout (syllabus that is specific to this semester).

RESOURCES & HANDOUTS

Initial Linux environment Setup on our new Linux server using Python 3.11. That page contains a Python review.

Scikit-learn is the primary machine-learning library that we will use to analyze data relationships.

Compilation of Weka slides on Instance Based Learning and Clustering.
A graph on informational entropy, relates to building rules & decision trees.
A page describing Bayes theorem and related matters.
A Bayes computer for a 52-card deck is on acad at ~parson/DataMine/BayesCards.py
Weka slides on evaluating numeric prediction.
A summary of the Kappa Statistic.
A subset of Weka Chapter 5 on Evaluation and 7 on Data Transformations.
Weka Chapter 12 on Ensemble Learning.
 
ASSIGNMENTS
There is a 10% per late late penalty for projects that come in after the due date.

Run ssh K120023GEMS.kutztown.edu after logging into acad to perform make test.


Assignment 1 is due via make turnitin by 11:59 PM on Friday September 20
    via make turnitin on acad or K120023GEMS.
 

 
ZOOM VIDEO ARCHIVE. Use Firefox or try other non-Chrome browser for these links. Chrome has problems.