| Week
| Date
| Topics
| Online "Textbook" Readings
| Deadlines
|
| Slides
| Supplemental Readings
| Programming Resources
|
| 1
| 01/08-10
|
Course Overview
Recent Case Studies
Data Collection and Abstraction
|
slides
slides
slides
|
Learning Analytics in Higher Education - A Literature Review
(Leitner et al. 2017)
paper
Research Evidence on the Use of Learning Analytics
(Ferguson et al. 2016)
appendix 1
Lumiere paper
paper to estimate and learn user behaviours in a dvorak user study
|
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| 2
| 01/15-17
|
Content Based Recommendation Systems
Collaborative Filtering
Decision Trees
|
slides
slides
slides
|
TF-IDF
and cosine similarity
Chapter on classification and decision trees
(from Intro to Data Mining by Tan, Steinbach, & Kumar 2006)
|
| A1 due - personalized learning
|
| 3
| 01/22-24
|
Clustering
Cluster Validation
Quiz #1 expectations
|
slides
slides
slides
slides
|
Chapter on cluster analysis
(from Intro to Data Mining by Tan, Steinbach, & Kumar 2006)
|
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| 4
| 01/29-31
|
Modeling Uncertainty using Probability
Friday: class cancelled due to illness
|
slides
|
|
| A2 due - document similarity
|
| 5
| 02/05-07
|
Quiz #1 (Wednesday)
Independence Assumptions and Bayesian Networks
Overview of A3
|
slides
|
Intro to Bayes Nets
|
What is cURL
Getting started with GitHub API
List commits on a repo
What is JSON?
Graphviz
|
|
| 6
| 02/12-14
|
Building Bayesian Networks
review Quiz 1
Inference in Bayesian Networks
Bayes nets with Matlab
Dynamic Bayesian Networks
|
slides
slides
slides
slides
slides
|
Clique inference algorithm
|
Online Matlab reference
How to use the BNT
Visualizing graph structures in Matlab
| A3 due - GitHub collaboration
|
| 7
| 02/19-21
|
No class due to Reading week
|
| 8
| 02/26-28
|
Overview of A4
Dynamic Bayesian Networks (cont.)
Expected Utility
Real Decision Problems
|
slides
slides
|
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|
| 9
| 03/04-06
|
Quiz #2 expectations
Preference Elicitation
DBN Simulations
DBN an intelligent tutoring
|
slides
slides
slides
slides
|
study using bounded queries in PowerPoint
a DBN intelligent tutoring system for
Physics
|
mk_hints.m,
sim_hints.m,
sim_hints_decision.m
| A4 due - project proposal and Bayes nets
|
| 10
| 03/11-13
|
Quiz #2 (Wednesday)
Plagiarism Detection (Essays)
Video lectures on Canvas under "Module"
|
slides
|
Challenges in automatic plagiarism detection
(Clough 2003)
Measuring Text Reuse (Clough et. al. 2002)
|
|
|
| 11
| 03/18-20
|
GPLAG
Expectations for Project presentation and Final exam
Online office hours 2:30-3:30
|
slides
slides
|
GPLAG: Detection of Software Plagiarism by
Program Dependence Graph Analysis (Liu et al. 2006)
|
| A5 due - probabilistic learner models
|
| 12
| 03/25-27
|
Online office hours on demand only
|
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| 13
| 04/01-03
|
Online office hours on demand only
|
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|
| Project Presentation Video due Apr 2
A6 due - plagiarism detection
|
| 14
| 04/08
|
Online office hours 2:30-3:30
|
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Project Presentation Voting due Apr 7
|