CS-GY 9223 - I (24680) -
Visualization: Connections with Machine Learning



All the VAML

This is the course webpage for Visual Analytics & Machine Learning.

Instructor

Claudio Silva

email: csilva@nyu.edu

office hours: TBD

Teachinig Assistants

Gromit Yeuk-Yin Chan

email: gromit.chan@nyu.edu

Jorge Piazentin Ono

email: jorgehpo@nyu.edu

Ke Xu

email: kexu@nyu.edu

Lectures

Th 3:00PM-5:50PM, 2 MetroTechCtr Rm 9.007

Syllabus

Go here for the syllabus.

Schedule

Week 1 (January 30): Introduction to Visual Analytics, Visualization, and Machine Learnin, Pt.1
Thursday: Course Introduction, Visual Analytics (slides, notebook)
Required Reading: Visual Analytics: Definition, Process and Challenges
Week 2 (February 6): Introduction to Visual Analytics, Visualization, and Machine Learnin, Pt. 2
Thursday:Fundamentals of Data Visualization: Visual Encodings, Perceptual Principles (slides, pdf, notebook)
Required Reading: A Layered Grammar of Graphics, Vega-Lite
Week 3 (February 13): Project Proposals
Thursday: Project Introdution
Required Reading: Examples
Week 4 (February 20): Mixed-Initiative Visual Exploration, Pt.1
Thursday: Steerable Dimensionality Reduction, Exploring Topic Models (slides, pdf)
Required Documents: TBA
Week 5 (February 27): Mixed-Initiative Visual Exploration, Pt.2
Thursday: Clustering, Ranking, Regression, and Graphs(slides, pdf, notebook)
Required Reading: TBA
Week 6 (March 5): Visual Analytics for Model Understanding, Pt.1
Thursday: Understanding Classification Outputs, Deep Learning: Dataflows, Training(slides, pdf, notebook)
Required Reading: TBA
Week 7 (March 12): Visual Analytics for Model Understanding, Pt.2
Thursday:Understanding Convolutional Networks, Generative Models Networks(slides, pdf, notebook)
Required Reading: TBA
Week 8 (March 19): Spring Recess (No Class)
Week 9 (March 26): Project Baseline Presentations
Thursday:Presenting the Project Baseline
Required Reading: TBA
Week 10 (April 2): Visual Analytics for Model Understanding, Pt.3
Thursday: Understanding Language Models
Required Reading: TBA
Week 11 (April 9): Visual Analytics for Model Training, Pt.1
Thursday: Visually Constructing Classifiers, (Inter-)Active Learning of Classifiers, Constructing Topic Models(slides, pdf, notebook)
Required Reading: TBA
Week 12 (April 16): Visual Analytics for Model Training, Pt.2
Thursday: Constructing Topic Models, Model Ensembles, Decision Trees, Metric Learning(slides, pdf, notebook)
Required Reading: TBA
Week 13 (April 23): Machine Learning for Visualization, Pt.1
Thursday: Machine Learning for Visualization(slides, pdf, notebook)
Required Reading: TBA
Week 14 (April 30): Machine Learning for Visualization, Pt.2
Thursday: Machine Learning for Visualization(slides, pdf, notebook)
Required Reading: TBA
Week 15 (May 7): Project Presentations

Acknowledgement

This course is based on the Visual Analytics and Machine Learning course designed by Professor Matthew Berger (Vanderbilt University).