Universidad Panamericana

Course Description

The second course in the machine learning track. Builds on foundational ML to cover advanced supervised and unsupervised methods, model selection, and applied modeling workflows.

Syllabus

Week Topic
1 Review: bias/variance, cross-validation
2 Regularized linear models
3 Tree-based methods and ensembles
4 Gradient boosting (XGBoost, LightGBM)
5 Support Vector Machines and kernels
6 Unsupervised learning: clustering and dimensionality reduction
7 Model interpretability and feature importance
8 Applied modeling project

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