BSAN 750 Foundation of Machine Learning an AI (Fall 2026)

Course info.

• Syllabus
  

• Room: CAPF 3056
  

• Time: T, H 11-12:15pm
  

• Office hour: Thursday 3-4pm or by appointment

• Contact: shaobo.li@ku.edu

Links

• Programming tutorial: DataCamp

• Generative AI:

  • ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Llama

  • Should we let students use ChatGPT?

• Data repositories

  • UCI Machine Learning Repository

  • Kaggle

  • KDD Nuggets

• Top 10 Data Mining Algorithms

Recommended textbooks and tutorials

• Introduction to Statistical Learning [Online course videos] [Notes from R4DS online learning community]

• Elements of Statistical Learning (more theoretical)

Lecture

These slides are built based on the recommended textbooks.

• Lecture 1

• Lecture 2

• Lecture 3

Lab Notes

• Lab 1. Python Basics [download notebook]

• Lab 2. k-means and k-nearest neighbor [download notebook]

HW and Exercise

• See Canvas