Analytics Boot Camp Course

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Basic Analytics Course (8 hours)

● Introduction to Analytics. Completion Time: 15 minutes

● What is Analytics?
● Where is it used?
● Typical Data Analytics Workflow
● Brief intro into how data is stored (databases etc.)

● Overview of Tools Used. Estimated Completion Time: 15 minutes

● The R Programming Language (Pros and Cons)
● Matlab (Pros and Cons)
● Python (Pros and Cons)
● SAS (Pros and Cons)
● Julia (Pros and Cons)

● Basics of the R programming Language: 1 hour

o Installing and running R
o How to use R studio
o The swirl package

● Brief Overview of Machine Learning. Estimated Completion Time: 15 minutes

o Overview of Supervised Learning Techniques
o Overview of Unsupervised Learning Techniques

● Supervised Learning: Regression. Estimated Completion Time: 2 hours

o Simple Linear Regression
o Multi-linear Regression
o Logistic Regression
o Showing how to do the above techniques in R or Python (Mentor’s choice.)

● Supervised Learning: Classification. Estimated Completion Time: 3 hours 30 minutes

o Decision Trees
o Random Forests
o Support Vector Machines
o Naïve Bayes
o Logistic Regression (for Classification Purposes)
o Showing how to do the above techniques in R (Mentor’s choice.)
 ● (Optional Section) Unsupervised Learning: Clustering. Estimated Completion Time: 2 hours 30
minutes
o Connectivity Models
o Centroid Models
o Distribution
o Density Models
o Illustrating a Clustering Technique in R (Mentor’s choice.)
● Introduction to Bluemix
● Introduction to PaaS
● Tour of Basic tools available in Bluemix

● Taking through steps of deploying a sample application along with using a service in
Bluemix

● Use the Analytics Service of IBM Bluemix dashDB Service to solve a Kaggle Data Mining
challenge
o Predict which category of people was likely to have survived the sinking of the Titanic.
Use the Analytics Service of IBM Bluemix dashDB service to solve the challenge.
(This is a useful tutorial for the mentors:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ba-bluemix-trs-predictive-analytics-with-
dashdb/
)

We can't wait to see what you create!

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