This class meets 10 times.  Generally, we'll meet Wed and Thurs Evenings from 7pm to 9pm.  Here's schedule of meeting dates. 

wed    thurs
           1/19
1/25     1/26
2/1    
            2/9
2/15      2/16
2/22      2/26
2/29

Overview of the course

Participants will learn to adapt and execute machine learning algorithms in the map reduce framework.  Participants should finish the class able to author their own machine learning algorithms for map reduce and to run them on Amazon Web Services.  Amazon is providing AWS credits for class participants. 

Participants will learn to use python code to author mappers and reducers for “hadoop-streaming”.  For most of the class we will employ “mrjob” - an open-source framework developed at Yelp.  Employing mrjob enables class members to program mappers and reducers in python.  The mrjob framework then submits the mapper-reducer to run locally without using hadoop, to run on Amazon Web Services, or to run them on a private hadoop cluster.  This will simplify the programming tasks.

In the past there has been demand for the class to be available remotely by teleconference.  I will offer a limited number of seats by teleconference.  Please be aware that there are some frustrations with internet-based teleconferencing.

Schedule:
Week 1 - Intro to map-reduce, AWS (Amazon web services), Mahout and mrjob
Week 2 - Unsupervised Learning - Clustering
Week 3 - Supervised Learning
Week 4 - Other Machine Learning Topics (text mining, recommender system, svd)
Week 5 - Student Projects

For more detail, see the Web Page for this class: http://machinelearningbigdata.pbworks.com/w/page/37651454/FrontPage

Prerequisites 

-Facility with undergrad level math and statistics (vector calculus, density functions, etc).

-Comfortable programming basic python (2.6 or 2.7)

-Install mrjob and boto (these are both python installations)
-Familiarity with basic machine learning. 

Cost for the Class
Machine Learning on BigData will meet Wed and Thurs evenings from 7pm to 9pm.

Cost for 5 week Machine Learning on Big Data:

On-site                $300. 

Teleconference     $300

(current Hacker Dojo members: $200.  "Current" Hacker Dojo member, means that you sign up for Hacker Dojo membership before you purchase your ticket.  You can sign up for Hacker Dojo membership online at http://wiki.hackerdojo.com/w/page/25437/FrontPage

In order to streamline registration we will only take payment through eventbrite.