BDAA Fall 2020 Course Lectures and Organization

Updated On an ongoing Basis

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This describes weekly meeting and overall videos and homeworks

Contents

Week 1

This first class discussed overall issues and did the first ~40% of the introductory slides. This presentation is also available as 8 recorded presentations under Introduction to AI-Driven Digital Transformation

Administrative topics

The following topics were addressed

  • Homework
  • Difference between undergrad and graduate requirements
  • Contact
  • Commuication via Piazza

If you have questions please post them on Piazza.

Assignment 1

  • Post a professional three paragraph Bio on Piazza. Please post it under the folder bio. Use as subject “Bio: Lastname, Firstname”. Research what a professional Biography is. Remember to write it in 3rd person and focus on professional activities. Look up the Bios from Geoffrey or Gregor as examples.
  • Write report described in Homework 1
  • Please study recorded lectures either in zoom or in Introduction to AI-Driven Digital Transformation

Week 2

This did the remaining 60% of the introductory slides. This presentation is also available as 8 recorded presentations

Student questions were answered

Video and Assignment

These introduce Colab with examples and a Homework using Colab for deep learning. Please study videos and do homework.

Week 3

This lecture reviewed where we had got to and introduced the new Cybertraining web site. Then we gave an overview of the use case lectures which are to be studied this week. The use case overview slides are available as Google Slides

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Videos

Please study Big Data Use Cases Survey

Big Data in pictures

Collage of Big Data Players

Collage of Big Data Players

Software systems of importance through early 2016. This collection was stopped due to rapid change but categories and entries are still valuable. We call this HPC-ABDS for High Performance Computing Enhanced Apache Big Data Stack

HPC-ABDS

HPC-ABDS Global AI Supercomputer compared to classic cluster.

AI Supercomputer

Six Computational Paradigms for Data Analytics

6 System Data Architectures

Features that can be used to distinguish and group together applications in both data and computational science

Facets

Week 4

We surveyed next weeks videos which describe the search for the Higgs Boson and the statistics methods used in the analysis of such conting experiments.

The Higgs Boson slides are available as Google Slides

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Videos for Week 4

Please study Discovery of Higgs Boson

Week 5

This week’s class and its zoom video covers two topics

  • Discussion of Final Project for Class and use of markdown text technology based on slides Course Project.
  • Summary of Sports Informatics Module based on slides Sports Summary.

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Videos for Week 5

Please Study Sports as Big Data Analytics

Week 6

This week’s video class recorded first part of Google Slides and emphasizes that these lectures are partly aimed at suggesting projects.

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This class started with a review of applications for AI enhancement.

plus those covered Spring 2020 but not updated this semester

We focus on Health and Medicine with summary talk

Videos for Week 6

See module on Health and Medicine

Week 7

This week’s video class recorded the second part of Google Slides.

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Videos for Week 7

Continue module on Health and Medicine

Week 8

We discussed projects with current list https://docs.google.com/document/d/13TZclzrWvkgQK6-8UR-LBu_LkpRsbiQ5FG1p--VZKZ8/edit?usp=sharing

This week’s video class recorded the first part of Google Slides.

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Videos for Week 8

Module on Cloud Computing

Week 9

We discussed use of GitHub for projects (recording missed small part of this) and continued discussion of cloud computing but did not finish the slides yet.

This week’s video class recorded the second part of Google Slides.

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Videos for Week 9

Continue work on project and complete study of videos already assigned. If interesting to you, please review videos on AI in Banking, Space and Energy, Transportation Systems, Mobility (Industry), and Commerce. Don’t forget the participation grade from GitHub activity each week

Week 10

We discussed use of GitHub for projects and finished summary of cloud computing.

This week’s video class recorded the last part of Google Slides.

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Videos for Week 10

Continue work on project and complete study of videos already assigned. If interesting to you, please review videos on AI in Banking, Space and Energy, Transportation Systems, Mobility (Industry), and Commerce. Don’t forget the participation grade from GitHub activity each week

Week 11

This weeks video class went through project questions.

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Videos for Week 11

Continue work on project and complete study of videos already assigned. If interesting to you, please review videos on AI in Banking, Space and Energy, Transportation Systems, Mobility (Industry), and Commerce. Don’t forget the participation grade from GitHub activity each week

Week 12

This weeks video class discussed deep learning for Time Series. There are Google Slides for this

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Videos for Week 12

Continue work on project and complete study of videos already assigned. If interesting to you, please review videos on AI in Banking, Space and Energy, Transportation Systems, Mobility (Industry), and Commerce. Don’t forget the participation grade from GitHub activity each week.

Week 13

This weeks video class went through project questions.

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The class is formally finished. Please submit your homework and project.

Week 14

This weeks video class went through project questions.

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The class is formally finished. Please submit your homework and project.

Week 15

This weeks video class was a technical presentation on “Deep Learning for Images”. There are Google Slides

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