{"id":324,"date":"2025-05-27T11:43:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T15:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/data-science-program\/?p=324"},"modified":"2025-06-05T15:38:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T19:38:27","slug":"dsci-225-applied-machine-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/data-science\/dsci-225-applied-machine-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"DSCI 225 &#8211; Applied Machine Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An investigation into the fundamental techniques and practices of machine learning.&nbsp; The primary activities of the course will be a series of lectures and a corresponding series of lab sessions, programming projects, and written assignments.&nbsp; The course will focus on applying machine learning to practical problems in Data Science and will also introduce the student to some of the fundamental theory of machine learning.Prerequisites for this course require a grade of C- or better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prerequisites:<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.clarku.edu\/content.php?catoid=34&amp;catoid=34&amp;navoid=2852&amp;filter%5B27%5D=-1&amp;filter%5B29%5D=&amp;filter%5Bcourse_type%5D=-1&amp;filter%5Bkeyword%5D=&amp;filter%5B32%5D=1&amp;filter%5Bcpage%5D=5&amp;filter%5Bitem_type%5D=3&amp;filter%5Bonly_active%5D=1&amp;filter%5B3%5D=1#tt7756\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DSCI 105 &#8211; 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Data Structures<\/a>\u00a0(Minimum grade of C- required for pre-reqs)<br><br><strong>Anticipated Terms Offered:<\/strong> Spring 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Applied Machine Learning explores the fundamental techniques and practices of machine learning through a series of lectures, lab sessions, programming projects, and written assignments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":325,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-data-science-core"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.1 (Yoast SEO v28.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>DSCI 225 - Applied Machine Learning | Data Science | Clark University<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/data-science\/dsci-225-applied-machine-learning\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"DSCI 225 - Applied Machine Learning\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Applied Machine Learning explores the fundamental techniques and practices of machine learning through a series of lectures, lab sessions, programming projects, and written assignments.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/data-science\/dsci-225-applied-machine-learning\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Data Science\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ClarkUniversityWorcester\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-05-27T15:43:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-06-05T19:38:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/data-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/machine-learning-900x600-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"900\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@clarkuniversity\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@clarkuniversity\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Carol D&#039;Onofrio\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.clarku.edu\\\/data-science\\\/dsci-225-applied-machine-learning\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.clarku.edu\\\/data-science\\\/dsci-225-applied-machine-learning\\\/\"},\"headline\":\"DSCI 225 &#8211; 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