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This course presents both the foundational and the practical aspects of modeling, analyzing, and mining of computerized data sets, including classification, regression, clustering, semi-supervised learning, structured sparsity learning, etc. The course assignments are designed to contain both theoretical and programming components in order to train students to gain hands-on-experience.

This course covers the theory and application of information visualization and of visual analytics, the science of combining interactive visual interfaces and information visualization technique with automatic algorithms to support analytical reasoning through human-computer interaction. Research on visual perception, cognition, interactive visual interfaces, and visual analytics will be covered. Practical techniques for the display of complex multivariate data will be addressed. Course projects will require the development of interactive web-based interfaces to analyze and visualize real-world datasets. Prerequisites: CS 625.

Natural language processing (NLP) techniques are the crux of many leading modern technologies. Advances in NLP are also critical in the pursuit of Artificial Intelligence. This course will discuss core problems in NLP and the state-of-the-art tools and techniques as well as advanced NLP research topics. The topics will include language models, part-of-speech tagging, syntactic parsing, word embedding, statistical machine translation, text summarization, question answering, and dialog interaction. At the end of the course, students will be familiar with many language-processing tasks and applications. Prerequisites: CS 580.