Data Science is a new hot career which is one of the highest paid fields. Being a Data Scientist is a dream job. It was once proclaimed the sexiest job of the 21st century.
Is your career path going to becoming a Data Scientist? Imagine that you were the Chief Data Scientist of an online movie store. Your task is to recommend customers what movies to watch based on rating data from users. This task is similar to what Amazon Data Scientists do behind the scene at Imdb, the world’s most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity owned by Amazon, to recommend movies to users. What are you going to do to drive revenue for the online movie enterprise?
This summer 2019 we offer a fast lane through some techniques for Recommendation Systems used in the domain of Data Science. Students will learn how to program Python, review basic linear algebra and probability, learn selected recommendation system techniques such as user-based and item-based Collaborative Filtering, and Matrix Factorization, build models, and websites that give recommendations based on given rating inputs. The same algorithms have been applied for recommending various products in business world as well.
The following is the tentative content of the camp:
Day 1 (3 hours)
Python Programming Fundamentals
Day 2 (5 hours)
Quick review on Linear Algebra and Probability with programming practice
Day 3 (3 hours)
- Recommendation Systems
- Model building
- Web design and development
Day 4 (5 hours)
- Recommendation Systems
- Model building
- Web design and development
Day 5 (3 hours)
Students complete the projects and showcase the work