Ling 730: Proseminar / FALL 2022
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Overview

This is a graduate-level proseminar.

Calendar (tentative)

Current Week

Week Date Topic Class HW to do Methods bootcamp tasks
13-14 Tu 11/31-12/08 GAMMs Time series, time normalization Try doing GAMMs for Luganda data, work on your own projects
Th 10/27 Wrap-up

Upcoming Weeks

Week Date Topic Class HW to do Methods bootcamp tasks

Past Weeks

Week Date Topic Class HW to do Methods bootcamp tasks
11 Tu 11/15 Bayesian regression, multilevel models BDA Ch. 3, 4, 5, Gelman and Hill 2007 Chs. 11, 12
Tu 11/17
10 Tu 11/08 GAMMs Gubian tutorial Work through Gubian tutorials + apply to Luganda
Th 11/10 Residuals More work on Luganda Work through Van Rij et al. paper, html, git, review GHV Ch. 7, 8, do Ch 9
9 Tu 10/31 GAMMs GAMMs for Luganda data
Th 11/02 Gubian tutorial Work through Gubian tutorials
8 Tu 10/25 GAMMs Wieling 2018 tutorial Try doing GAMMs for Luganda data (See Wood 2017 book in shared readings directory)
Th 10/27
7 Tu 10/18 Temporal considerations: decomposing trajectories Gubian tutorial materials Work on own data, ICPhS thoughts! Work through Wieling 2018 tutorial
Th 10/20 No class: AMP travel
6 Tu 10/11 Classification/regression ISLR2 Ch. 4 discussion
Th 10/13 Work on own data Work through Ross GAMs course
5 Tu 10/04 MDS, what spaces methods presentations wrap-up Morrison and Kondaurova (2009) paper, code, see also qda paper, ky code Get stanarm etc. installed
Th 10/06 Hands-on work on data Set up data set work Work on own data Work through ISLR Ch. 4, GHV Ch. (10), 11, 13
4 Tu 09/27 What space cont'd jupyter notebook Review what space methods papers
Th 09/29
3 Tu 09/20 What space? Change of bases, subspaces: dimensionality reduction, PCA, LDA, MDS, SVMs, neural nets, linear algebra review cont'd Alessa/Josh on transformations
Th 09/22 KY gone at compphon workshop; Responsible adult GHV exercise session Work on your self-assigned papers for next week Watch the non-square matrix video (and dot product one would help too)
2 Tu 09/13 Changing the graph paper: transformations and scaling -- "normalization", "centering", linear regression review Notes Due by 09/15: Linear regression review: perspectives-Read Appendix B and Ch. 4 of GHV, Ch. 16 of Winter (2019). Then GHV Ch. 7, 8
Th 09/15 Pick Wk 3 method and paper(s) to present. Due by 09/20: Linear algebra review: work through 3Blue1Brown linear algebra vids 4, (5), 6, 13, and 14
1 Tu 09/06 Introduction, linear algebra review Spaces notes Due by class 09/08: Work through 3Blue1Brown linear algebra vids 0, 1, 2, 3, and 16 (Supplemental: Linear algebra done right Ch. 1 and definition of vector space video)
Th 09/08 Prep your transformation topic. Pick data set to work on. Due by 09/13: Probability review: work through 3Blue1Brown Bayes Theorem 1, Binomial distribution, pdfs. Linear regression review: work through GHV Chs 5, 6, 12 [code].
0 Review: R-fu - R basics (swirl)
- tidyr basics: R for data science, especially data visualization, data transformation, EDA, ,
- Data wrangling: R4DS, Baert dplyr tutorials, pivoting, magittr pipe, (new native pipe??)

Resources

Reproducible research

Exploratory data analysis/data visualization

Learning theory

Linear algebra

General statistical analysis/machine learning

Basic probability/stats

Regression and distributions

Bayesian data analysis

FPCA and GAM(M)s

Time series models

Neural nets

Miscellaneous