📅 2025-02-27 — Session: Developed Autoencoder-based Socioeconomic Embeddings

🕒 02:55–03:35
🏷️ Labels: Autoencoder, Feature Selection, Socioeconomic Data, Machine Learning, Embedding
📂 Project: Teaching
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal

The session aimed to explore and develop methodologies for creating efficient socioeconomic embeddings using advanced machine learning techniques, particularly autoencoders.

Key Activities

  • Reviewed the framework for a data science graduate thesis, focusing on representation learning with autoencoders.
  • Planned a methodology for training a Random Forest model on autoencoder-generated embeddings.
  • Outlined an iterative approach for enhancing embeddings using census and survey data.
  • Discussed strategies for optimizing the order of feature addition in autoencoders.
  • Reflected on feature selection in deep learning for structured data.
  • Finalized a feature subset for socioeconomic embeddings.

Achievements

  • Established a structured approach for maximizing the impact of a data science thesis using advanced techniques.
  • Developed a plan for integrating Random Forest models with autoencoder embeddings to handle high-dimensional data.
  • Created a strategy for iterative embedding expansion using real-world data sources.
  • Finalized a stable feature subset for effective socioeconomic trait encoding.

Pending Tasks

  • Implement the outlined methodologies and validate their effectiveness with real-world data.