Teaching "Prediction: Machine Learning and Statistics"

Abstract The course Prediction: Machine Learning and Statistics is taught currently at MIT to mathematically oriented non-experts. The course focuses generally on predictive modeling from data, and contains topics within data mining, machine learning, and statistics, often going back and forth between machine learning and statistical views of various algorithms and concepts. The course is structured in three parts: an overview of most of the "top 10" algorithms in data mining based on the ICDM surve