Study-unit DATA SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS IN PHYSICS

Course name Physics
Study-unit Code A002331
Location PERUGIA
Curriculum Fisica della materia
Lecturer Livio Fano'
Lecturers
  • Livio Fano'
  • Daniele Spiga
Hours
  • 21 ore - Livio Fano'
  • 21 ore - Daniele Spiga
CFU 6
Course Regulation Coorte 2022
Supplied 2022/23
Supplied other course regulation
Learning activities Affine/integrativa
Area Attività formative affini o integrative
Sector FIS/04
Type of study-unit Opzionale (Optional)
Type of learning activities Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction Italian
Contents Introduction to statistical learning and to the most common tools
Reference texts The Elements of Statistical Learning
(Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction)
Autors: Trevor Hastie Robert Tibshirani Jerome Friedman
Educational objectives Learning from Data with statistical and computational tools for big and complex data.
Specific applications to Physics.
Prerequisites "Statistical Methods for Data Analysis" is suggested.
Teaching methods Classroom lessons and practice.
Other information Data Science combines advanced statistical and computational methods, with specific infrastructural solutions at high scalability and high performances.
Learning verification modality Students will be requested to:
1) during the course: provide a presentation to the classroom based on one of the arguments discussed during the first half of the study program
2) end of the course: provide a written report on an assigned argument
3) oral test
Extended program Introduction to Statistical Learning:

1) Prediction accuracy, model preparation and supervised learning
2) Regression and Classification
3) Model selection
4) Decision Trees - random forest
5) Support Vector Machine
6) Unsupervised Learning and Principal Component Analysis
7) Neural Network and Deep Learning