How can I attend lectures and lab sessions?
ADA will be run as a hybrid offline/online course: Lectures (Wed 8:15-10:00) will take place in the Rolex Forum. Additionally, the lectures will be live-streamed on Zoom, as well as recorded and made available here on the course website the day after the lecture at the latest. Lab sessions (Fri 13:15-15:00) will be held online only.
- Live stream for lecture: https://go.epfl.ch/ada2021-zoom-lecture
- Live stream for lab sessions: https://go.epfl.ch/ada2021-zoom-lab
For additional details on how to connect via Zoom, please refer to the communication guidelines.
Lab session
Homework
Project
Quizzes
Lecture schedule [recordings (lectures + lab sessions)]
| Week | Lecture Date | Lecture | Lab Session |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 22 Sep 2021 | Intro [slides] | Intro to tools [GitHub] + Intro to lab session and tools [slides] |
| 2 | 29 Sep 2021 | Handling data [slides] | Test quiz + Handling data [GitHub] + Project office hours |
| 3 | 06 Oct 2021 | Visualizing data [slides] | Quiz 1 + Data viz and data from the web [GitHub] |
| 4 | 13 Oct 2021 | Describing data [slides] | Quiz 2 + Describing data [GitHub] + H1 office hours |
| 5 | 20 Oct 2021 | Regression analysis [slides] | Quiz 3 + Regression analysis [GitHub] + Project office hours |
| 6 | 27 Oct 2021 | Observational studies [slides] | Quiz 4 + Observational studies [GitHub] + H1 postmortem [recording] + Project office hours |
| 7 | 03 Nov 2021 | Supervised learning [slides] | Quiz 5 + Supervised learning [GitHub] + Project office hours |
| 8 | 10 Nov 2021 | Applied ML [slides] | Quiz 6 + Applied machine learning [GitHub] |
| 9 | 17 Nov 2021 | Unsupervised learning [slides] | Quiz 7 + H2 office hours + Unsupervised learning [GitHub] |
| 10 | 24 Nov 2021 | Handling text [slides] | Quiz 8 + Handling text [GitHub] |
| 11 | 01 Dec 2021 | Handling text [slides] | Quiz 9 + Invited talks [recording] + Project office hours |
| 12 | 08 Dec 2021 | Handling networks [slides] | Quiz 10 + Project office hours [Slots sheet] + Handling networks [GitHub] |
| 13 | 15 Dec 2021 | Scaling up [slides] | Quiz 11 + Scaling up [GitHub] |
| 14 | 22 Dec 2021 | ADA in action | Holiday (No lab sesssion) |
Important Dates
- Homework
- Homework H1 [GitHub repo]
- Release: 08 Oct 2021
- Due: 22 Oct 2021
- Homework H2 [GitHub repo]
- Release: 12 Nov 2021
- Due: 26 Nov 2021
- Homework H1 [GitHub repo]
- Project deliverables
- Project milestone P1
- Due: 08 Oct 2021
- Project milestone P2
- Due: 12 Nov 2021
- Project milestone P3
- Due: 17 Dec 2021
- Project milestone P1
- Final exam: 25 Jan 2022 (8:15-11:15)
All deadlines are 23:59 CET
Instructor
Teaching assistants (TAs; PhD students)
- Kristina Gligorić (executive TA)
- Akhil Arora (head TA)
- Manoel Horta Ribeiro (head TA)
- Anastasiia Kucherenko
- Ekaterina Svikhnushina
- Halima Schede
- Marija Šakota
- Martin Josifoski
- Paola Mejia
- Valentin Hartmann
- Vinitra Swamy
Student assistants (SAs; MS students)
- Alexander Apostolov
- Francesco Posa
- Giorgio Mannarini
- Léopaul Boesinger
- Lin Yuan
- Ludovica Schaerf
- Matthias Zeller
- Neil Scheidwasser-Clow
- Pierre Bouquet
Resources
Acknowledgment
The first edition of ADA took place in Fall 2016, created and taught by Michele Catasta. Over the years, the class has evolved from the starting point of that first edition, and a significant chunk of the material is still based on Michele’s original version. I am deeply obliged to Michele for laying this foundation.