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LearndataminingforfreewithHarvard'sDataScienceCourse,CS109.This
coursewasdevelopedbyJoeBlitzsteinandHanspeterPfisterinFallof2013andwill
continueinFallof2014.

WherecanIfindexamplesofaU
Shapeddistribution?
Youshouldlookat5starranking
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Whilethisisa"datascience"course,Istillconsiderthis"datamining"becauseofthe
valuablepracticeinextractingandmanipulatingdata,inadditiontocreatingsome
commondataminingalgorithmslikerecommendationenginesorsentimentanalysis.

WherecanIfindagoodquick
referenceguideorcheatsheetfor
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IcompiledallmynotesforHarvardStat110
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Pythonintro,Numpyintro,Matplotlibintro(Homework0 )(solutions )
Webscraping,dataaggregation,plotting,forecasting,modelevaluation
(Homework1 )(solutions )

Whatdidyoulearnfrominterningat
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WhyIneedtoprioritize.
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Datamanipulation,predictions,evaluations(Homework2 )(solutions )
Sentimentanalysis,predictivemodeling,modelcalibration(Homework3 )
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Recommendationengine,mapreduce(Homework4 )(solutions )
Networkanalysisandvisualization(Homework5 )(solutions )
Ifyouwantevenmorecheckoutthelabs!
Lab2:WebScraping
Lab3:EDA,Pandas,Matplotlib
Lab4:ScikitLearn,Regression,PCA
Lab5:Bias,Variance,CrossValidation
Lab6:Bayes,LinearRegression,andMetropolisSampling
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