Introduction: Need for Machine Learning, Machine Learning Explained, Machine Learning in Relation to other Fields, Types of Machine Learning, Challenges of Machine Learning, Machine Learning Process, Machine Learning Applications.

Understanding Data – 1: Introduction, Big Data Analysis Framework, Descriptive Statistics, Univariate Data Analysis and Visualization.

Understanding Data – 2: Bivariate Data and Multivariate Data, Multivariate Statistics, Essential Mathematics for Multivariate Data, Feature Engineering and Dimensionality Reduction Techniques.

Testing Machine Learning Algorithms: Overfitting , Training, Testing, and Validation Sets ,The Confusion Matrix , Accuracy Metrics , The Receiver Operator Characteristic (ROC) Curve , Unbalanced Datasets , Measurement Precision.

Similarity-based Learning: Nearest-Neighbor Learning, Weighted K-Nearest-Neighbor Algorithm, Nearest Centroid Classifier, Locally Weighted Regression (LWR).

Regression Analysis: Introduction to Regression, Introduction to Linear Regression, Multiple Linear Regression, Polynomial Regression, Logistic Regression.

Decision Tree Learning: Introduction to Decision Tree Learning Model, Decision Tree Induction Algorithms. Validating and pruning of Decision trees.

Bayesian Learning: Introduction to Probability-based Learning, Fundamentals of Bayes Theorem, Classification Using Bayes Model, Naïve Bayes Algorithm for Continuous Attributes.

Artificial Neural Networks: Introduction, Biological Neurons, Artificial Neurons, Perceptron and Learning Theory, Types of Artificial Neural Networks, Popular Applications of Artificial Neural Networks, Advantages and Disadvantages of ANN, Challenges of ANN.

Clustering Algorithms: Introduction to Clustering Approaches, Proximity Measures, Hierarchical Clustering Algorithms, Partitional Clustering Algorithm, Density-based Methods, Grid-based Approach.