Academic Catalog

STAT576 NEURAL NETWORKS FOR DATA SCIENCE

Course Code: 2460576
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: Statistics
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
Course Coordinator: Prof.Dr. ÝNCÝ BATMAZ
Offered Semester: Fall and Spring Semesters.

Course Content

Basics of neural network (NN) computing. AI problem solving. and Von Neumann architecture. Important neural network models. Adaline and Perceptron; feedforward. feedback. recurrent and self-organizing and thermodynamic networks. Learning methods. Hebbian. perceptron. back-propagation learning and unsupervised competitive learning. Hopfield Network. Data preprocessing: principal and independent component analysis. Practical applications of these techniques in Data Science.