Stat 654: Introduction to Applied Deep Learning
Department of Statistics and Data Science, CSU East Bay
Spring 2026:
Week 2:
- Handouts: Please open or print out the Handouts from Week 2 for this week.
- Spotlight Blog: Posit AI Blog
- Homework: Homework 2 has been posted.
- RStudio Keras Website: keras3
- Presentation:
- Presentation:
- Spotlight Paper: Leo Breiman Two Cultures
- Spotlight Wikipedia: Newton’s Method
- Spotlight Wikipedia: Newton’s Method for optimization
- Spotlight Wikipedia: Stochastic gradient descent
- Spotlight Blog: sentdex Difference between a Batch and an Epoch
- Code Example: We will look at the R code from from Chapter 4.
- Binary classification, movie_sentiment.qmd
- Multi-class classification, newswire_classification.qmd
- Regression, boston_housing.qmd
- Code Example: We will look at the R code from from Chapter 4. Colab Notebooks Being Reviewed keras3
- Binary classification, classifying-movie-reviews.R - CoLab
- Multi-class classification, classifying-newswires.R CoLab
- Regression, predicting-house-prices.R - CoLab
Week 1:
- Book: From the University Library > Databases A-Z > O > O’Reilly Then login using your university login. Find Deep Learning with R, Second Edition. Or the Python version - Book, audio book, or video book.
- Github: Download the code for the book from these links:
- Deep Learning with R Scripts and Python Notebooks with R code, Third Edition See code in the /code directory. The Second Edition code is is the /2e directory. We will be using the Third Edition code.
- Deep Learning with Python Notebooks, Third Edition
- Book: mdsr3e
- Book: r4ds2e
- Homework: Homework 1 has been posted.
- Presentation:
- Google Tensorflow Playground:
- playground
- deeperplayground
- playground.scienxlab
- TFPlaygroundPSA All of these datasets are simulated.
- Introductory Examples from my JSM 2018 Poster.
- R Project: Poster_vibe.zip
- cars Example
- concrete Example images.pdf
- Software Spotlight:
- Google Colab Instead of dealing with Java (on Windows you need the Windows Offline (64 bit) version) to run rWeka and h2o, you could use Google Colab. sign up for Pro as a Student FREE
- posit Cloud Instead of dealing with Java (on Windows you need the Windows Offline (64 bit) version) to run rWeka and h2o, you could use the posit Cloud.
- iris Example
- Poster:
- Spotlight Blog:
- NVIDIA CTG keynote: NVIDIA GTC 2026 Keynote updated
- NVIDIA CTG keynote: NVIDIA GTC 2025 Keynote
- Spotlight Book: Deep Learning and Scientific Computing with R torch
- Spotlight Book: Deep Learning
- Spotlight Book: Neural Networks and Deep Learning
- Spotlight Website: deeplearning.ai
- Spotlight Website: fast.ai
- Spotlight Website: Machine Learning Crash Course
- Google Learning:
- RStudio Keras Website: keras3
Week 0.5:
- YouTube:
- Run LLMs Locally:
- Links:
- Links: OpenAI
- Links: Microsoft
- bingChat aka CoPilot
- Microsoft CoPilot Designer
- Links: GitHub
- Links: Google
- Links:
- Links:
- Links:
Week 0:
Learning R:
Learning Python:
Learn SQL:
Excellent References:
Data Science:
- Socviz
- r4ds2e
- ModernDive
- Yarrr!
- R Data Science Essentials
- Python Data Science Essentials
- Deep Learning Made Easy with R
- Doing Data Science
- Data Science from Scratch
- What is Data Science? (fast easy read)
- Ethics and Data Science (fast easy read)
- Data Driven (fast easy read)
- R Markdown: The Definitive Guide
Reading related to the Digital Economy:
- The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
- Race Against the Machine
- Wired For Innovation
- Strategies for e-business success
- Understanding the Digital Economy
More Big Picture:
- Fourth Paradigm of Science: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery
- McKinsey Global Institute Big Data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity
Tech papers:
- Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks
- High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models
- Attention Is All You Need
- A Multitask, Multilingual, Multimodal Evaluation of ChatGPT on Reasoning, Hallucination, and Interactivity
- Music can be reconstructed from human auditory cortex activity using nonlinear decoding models