Introduction to Materials Informatics

Prof. Wenhao Sun

Prof. Akira Miura

July 25, Day 1

Lecture 1 Slides

Introduction to Data-Science and Materials Informatics

  • Materials Genome Initiative
  • Cross-Industry Standard for Data-Mining
  • The Periodic Table as a Data Problem

Lecture 2 Slides

Data Understanding, Data Preparation

  • DFT
  • Materials Project
  • Pymatgen
  • Object-Oriented Programming

July 26, Day 2

Lecture 3 Slides

Lecture 3 Python Notebook

Hands on session using Materials Project API with Python Notebook

  • Querying the Materials Project

  • Preparing a Pandas Dataframe

  • Visualization

  • Implementation of a simple Random Forest Regressor.

Lecture 4 Slides

Introduction to Machine Learning

  • Inductive vs. Deductive Analysis
  • Sci-kit Learn

  • Machine-Learning considerations and pitfalls

Lecture 6 Slides

  • Figures, Good Bad Ugly

Lecture 7 Slides

  • Da Vinci

  • My data science story of Ternary Nitrides