Certificate for Data Science 2025

Random Forests and Deep Learning

9:40-16:40, April 29 & 30, 2025,

The goal of these two days of the program is to give an introduction to two very important methods in Machine Learning:

Lecturer

Aymeric Dieuleveut
Professor, CMAP, École Polytechnique

You will find below:

Schedule

(breaks not indicated)

Day Time Program
Monday 9:40-12:40 Decision Trees and Random Forests
Lecture Slides
Lecture Slides with annotations
12:40-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-17:00 Lab: Predicting Inflation in Brazil with Random Forests -->
Python Notebook
--> Python Notebook - final version in class
Some observations on the lab
Tuesday 9:40-12:40 Deep Learning
Lecture Slides Part 1
Lecture Slides Part 1 - with annotations
Lecture Slides Part 2
Lecture Slides Part 2 - with annotations -
12:40-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-17:00 Lab: Classification on MNIST digits dataset
Python Notebook

Supplementary material

Using Colab

1. Log in using your Google account

2. Enable GPU support by changing the 'runtime type'

3. Introduction to Google Colab

This notebook covers the basic features of Google Colab.