Description

Basic Course Description

MATLAB (matrix laboratory) is one of the fundamental and leading programming language and is a must learn skill for anyone who want to develop a career in engineering, science or related fields. Excellent MATLAB programming skills is therefore a crucial factor in making or breaking your career.

This course is designed from a perspective of a student who has no prior knowledge of MATLAB. The course starts from the very basic concepts and then built on top of those basic concepts and move towards more advanced topics such as visualization, exporting and importing of data, advance data types and data structures and advance programming constructs.

To get the real feel of MATLAB in solving and analyzing real life problems, the course includes machine learning topics in data science and data preprocessing.

The course is fun and exciting, but at the same time we dive deep into MATLAB to uncover its power of formulating and analyzing real life problems. The course is structured into four different Parts. Below is the detailed outline of this course.

Part 1: MATLAB from Beginer to Advance

Segment 1.1: Handling variables and Creating Scripts

Segment 1.2: Doing Basic Maths in MATLAB

Segment 1.3: Operations on Matrices

Segment 1.4: Advance Math Functions with Symbolic Data Type

Segment 1.5: Interacting with MATLAB and Graphics

Segment 1.6: Importing Data into MATLAB

Segment 1.7: File Handling and Text Processing

Segment 1.8: MATLAB Programming

Segment 1.9: Sharing Your MATLAB Results

Part 2: Advance MATLAB Data Types

Segment 2.1: Cell Data Type

Segment 2.2: Tables and Time Tables

Segment 2.3: Working with Structures and Map Container Data Type

Segment 2.4: Converting between Different Data Types

Part 3: Machine Learning for Data Science Using MATLAB

Segment 3.1 Data Preprocessing

Segment 3.2. Classification

Segment 3.2.1 K-Nearest Neighbor

Segment 3.2.2 Naive Bayes

Segment 3.2.3 Decision Trees

Segment 3.2.4 Support Vector Machine

Segment 3.2.5 Discriminant Analysis

Segment 3.2.6 Ensembles

Segment 3.2.7 Performance Evaluation

Segment 3.3 Clustering

Segment 3.3.1 K-Means

Segment 3.3.2 Hierarchical Clu stering

Segment 3.4 Dimensionality Reduction

Segment 3.5 Project

Part 4: Data Preprocessing for Machine Learning using MATLAB

Segment 4.1 Handing Missing Values

Segment 4.2 Dealing with Categorical Variables

Segment 4.3  Outlier Detection

Segment 4.4 Feature Scaling and Data Discretization

Segment 4.5 Selecting the Right Method for your Data
Who this course is for:

   Anyone looking to build a strong career in science or engineering through Excellent MATLAB coding skills
   Anyone wanting to advance their skills of real world problem solving with MATLAB based scientific computing

Requirements

   We cover everything from scratch and therefore do not require any prior knowledge of MATLAB
   The installation of MATLAB software on your machine is a must for this course so that you are able to run the commands and scripts that we cover during the course. If you do not have the MATLAB software installed than you may consider the following options
   1. You may download a free trail copy of the software from the MATHWORK website. This is for limited time use
   2. If you are student or employee, you may contact your School or employer for a free copy. Many universities offer a free student version of the software
   3. You may consider downloading the Octave which is a free and has nearly identical functionality as that of MATLAB. (I would not recommend this option since you may not be able to have access to all the functions that we cover in this course)
   4. If none of the above works for you, then you may purchase the student version directly from Mathworks website which is significantly lower in cost compare to its full version

Last updated 7/2019