Investigate the information revolution-which is changing everything from marketing to medical care-and learn how to put big data to use in your business and personal life.
Big Data: How Data Analytics Is Transforming the World
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: Data Analytics-What's the "Big" Idea?
- 02: Got Data? What Are You Wondering About?
- 03: A Mindset for Mastering the Data Deluge
- 04: Looking for Patterns-and Causes
- 05: Algorithms-Managing Complexity
- 06: The Cycle of Data Management
- 07: Getting Graphic and Seeing the Data
- 08: Preparing Data Is Training for Success
- 09: How New Statistics Transform Sports
- 10: Political Polls-How Weighted Averaging Wins
- 11: When Life Is (Almost) Linear-Regression
- 12: Training Computers to Think like Humans
- 13: Anomalies and Breaking Trends
- 14: Simulation-Beyond Data, Beyond Equations
- 15: Overfitting-Too Good to Be Truly Useful
- 16: Bracketology-The Math of March Madness
- 17: Quantifying Quality on the World Wide Web
- 18: Watching Words-Sentiment and Text Analysis
- 19: Data Compression and Recommendation Systems
- 20: Decision Trees-Jump-Start an Analysis
- 21: Clustering-The Many Ways to Create Groups
- 22: Degrees of Separation and Social Networks
- 23: Challenges of Privacy and Security
- 24: Getting Analytical about the Future
Taught by
Tim Chartier
