Week 2: Data, the Fuel of AI

Dates: Jan 19-23  ·  Reading: Handout 2: Introduction to Data and AI

Learning Objectives

Monday Session

What AI actually is, minus the hype. Rules versus learning from data. Everyday AI in business: recommendations, fraud alerts, spam filters. Where security data comes from: system logs, email, network traffic, and user activity.

Wednesday Session

Anatomy of a dataset: rows, columns, features, and labels. Data quality and why garbage in, garbage out matters for security tools. Visualizing data to spot patterns. Demo: exploring a real phishing email dataset.

Lab

Lab 2: Exploring Security Data. Use pandas in Colab to open a phishing email dataset, count phishing versus legitimate messages, and chart suspicious words and link counts.

Quiz / This Week

Quiz 2. AI versus ML versus rules; features and labels; security data sources.


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