Status
Available
Call number
Collections
Publication
Great Courses (2014), 12 hours, 24 lectures, 179 pages
Description
Taught by Professor Tim Chartier, an award-winning Associate Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Davidson College, these 24 half-hour lectures give you the big picture on big data, highlighting the crucial role of data analytics in today s world and the even greater impact it will have in the future.
Language
Original language
English
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[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?