Security Analytics Lectures, Handouts & Homeworks

(Fall 2018)

  Tuesday Thursday
Week 1 (Aug 20 -- Aug 24)
  • Overview of the course (PDF)
  • Overview of the data mining process (PDF)
Week 2 (Aug 27 -- Aug 31)
Week 3 (Sept 3 -- Sept 7)
  • No new slides.
Week 4 (Sept 10 -- Sept 14)
  • Logistic Regression (Slides)
  • Support Vector Machines (Slides)
  • Decision Trees (PDF)
  • Quiz 1
Week 5 (Sept 17 -- Sept 21)
  • No new slides.
    Bagging and Random Forests (PDF)
Week 6 (Sept 24 -- Sep 28)
  • Neural Networks (1) (See piazza for slides.)
  • Quiz 2: Covering Logistic Regression, Support Vector Machines, Decision Tree, Bagging, and Random Forests
  • Neural Networks (2) (See piazza for slides.)
Week 7 (Oct 1 -- Oct 5)
  • Lecture rescheduled to Oct 19 (3:30 to 4:45 in B134) Covering Neural Network (4)
  • Neural Networks (3) (See piazza for slides.)
Week 8 (Oct 8 -- Oct 12)
  • No class. (October break)
  • Neural Networks (5) (See piazza for slides.)
Week 9 (Oct 15 -- Oct 19)
  • Mid-term Exam (Covering all topics, up to and including Neural Network (2))
  • Tensor Flow Tutorial
Week 10 (Oct 22 -- Oct 26)
  • Neural Networks (6) (See piazza for slides.)
  • Neural Networks (9) (See piazza for slides.)
Week 11 (Oct 29 -- Nov 2)
  • Recurrent Neural Networks (See piazza for slides.)
  • Quiz 3: Covering Neural Networks (3,4,5,6,9)
  • No new slides
Week 12 (Nov 5 -- Nov 9)
  • Lecture rescheduled to Friday Nov 16 (3:45pm to 5pm in LWSN B134). Continue coverage of Map Reduce.
Week 13 (Nov 12 -- Nov 16)
  • Guest Lecture on Adversarial Data Mining by Shiqing Ma. See Piazza for slides.
  • Guest Lecture on Adversarial Machine Learning by Shiqing Ma. See Piazza for slides.
Week 14 (Nov 19 -- Nov 23)
  • Apache Spark (See piazza for slides)
  • No class. (Thanksgiving)
Week 15 (Nov 26 -- Nov 30)
Week 16 (Dec 3 -- Dec 7)