Get an introduction to data science designed for people who aren't planning on being full-time data scientists. Learn the basics of gathering and analyzing big data.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- Define a multidisciplinary practice with multiple meanings
- Use statistics and software
- Uncover insights and create knowledge
- Make connections with relational databases
- Get data into warehouses using ETL
- Let go of the past with NoSQL
- Address big data problems
- Keep things simple with structured data
- Share semistructured data
- Collect unstructured data
- Sift through big garbage
- Start out with descriptive statistics
- Understand probability
- Find a correlation
- See how correlation does not imply causation
- Comb techniques for predictive analytics
- Focus on knowledge
- Next steps
Taught by
Doug Rose
