Training: Introduction to Machine Learning and Data Mining

Machine learning automatically recognizes complex, previously unknown, novel, and useful patterns and information in all types of data. Data driven algorithms are the wave of the future and their results improve as the amount of data increases. Machine learning algorithms are used in search engines, image analysis, multimedia database retrieval, bioinformatics, industrial automation, speech recognition, and many other fields. This survey course covers the concepts and principles of a large variety of data mining methods, equips you with a working knowledge of these techniques and prepares you to apply them to real problems. The statistical programming language R is used to implement machine learning algorithms.