This intensive training course provides theoretical and technical aspects of Data Science and Business Analytics. The course covers the fundamental and advanced concepts and methods of deriving business insights from big” and/or “small” data. This training course is supplemented by hands-on labs that help attendees reinforce their theoretical knowledge of the learned material.
Business success in the information age is predicated on the ability of organizations to convert raw data coming from various sources into high-grade business information.
To stay competitive, organizations have started adopting new approaches to data processing and analysis. For example, data scientists are turning to Apache Spark for processing massive amounts of data using Spark’s distributed compute capability along with its built-in machine learning library, or switching from proprietary and costly solutions to the free R programming language.
Course Outline
Chapter 1. Applied Data Science
Chapter 2. Getting Started with R
Chapter 3. R Statistical Computing Features
Chapter 4. Data Analytics Life-cycle Phases
Chapter 5. Data Science Algorithms and Analytical Methods
Chapter 6. Visualizing and Reporting Processed Results
Chapter 7. Text Mining
Chapter 8. Introduction to Functional Programming
Chapter 9. Big Data Business Intelligence and Analytics
Chapter 10. Introduction to Apache Spark
Chapter 11. The Spark Shell
Chapter 12. Spark RDDs
Chapter 13. Parallel Data Processing with Spark
Chapter 14. Introduction to Spark SQL
Chapter 15. Graph Processing with GraphX
Chapter 16. The Spark Machine Learning Library
Chapter 17. Machine Learning with BigML
Lab Exercises
Audience
Data Scientists, Software Developers, IT Architects, and Technical Managers
PREREQUISITES
Participants should have the general knowledge of statistics and programming
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