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Course Outline
Introduction to Neural Networks
- Understanding Neural Networks
- Current trends in the application of neural networks
- Comparing Neural Networks with regression models
- Supervised versus Unsupervised learning
Overview of Available Packages
- Packages such as nnet, neuralnet, and others
- Differences between packages and their limitations
- Visualizing neural networks
Applying Neural Networks
- Concepts of neurons and neural networks
- A simplified model of the brain
- The neuron as a functional unit
- The XOR problem and the nature of value distribution
- The polymorphic nature of sigmoidal functions
- Other activation functions
- Construction of neural networks
- Concept of neuron connectivity
- Neural networks viewed as nodes
- Building a network
- Neurons
- Layers
- Scaling
- Input and output data
- Range from 0 to 1
- Normalization
- Training Neural Networks
- Backpropagation
- Propagation steps
- Network training algorithms
- Scope of application
- Estimation
- Challenges regarding approximation capability
- Examples
- Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and image pattern recognition
- Other applications
- Implementing a neural network model to predict stock prices of listed companies
Requirements
Programming experience in any language is recommended.
14 Hours
Testimonials (3)
I mostly enjoyed the graphs in R :))).
Faculty of Economics and Business Zagreb
Course - Neural Network in R
We gained some knowledge about NN in general, and what was the most interesting for me were the new types of NN that are popular nowadays.
Tea Poklepovic
Course - Neural Network in R
I liked the new insights in deep machine learning.