Unsupervised Machine Learning

This course introduces unsupervised machine learning as a practical framework for finding structure in complex data without predefined labels. Students work with clustering, dimensionality reduction, embeddings, matrix factorization, topic modeling, anomaly detection, graph representations, and model validation.

The course is designed for data science and computational social science applications: behavioral traces, text, networks, educational data, cultural data, organizations, and public-policy problems where the goal is to discover patterns, compare latent groups, and build interpretable representations.

The public course site is available at nosupervisado.criss-lab.com.

Cristian Candia
Cristian Candia
Associate Professor, Data Science Institute, School of Engineering, Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile. Director of CRiSS-LAB.

Cristian Candia is a computational social scientist studying human and collective behavior with large-scale data, network science, experiments, and AI.