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Data Analytics Course Overview

This 3 sentence summary provides the high level information about the CS 434 Data Analytics Lecture 1 Introduction document: The document outlines the learning outcomes, textbook, course evaluation, and topics for the CS 434 Data Analytics course taught by Dr. Firas Jabloun, which includes identifying appropriate data mining techniques, understanding fundamental data mining concepts and techniques, and implementing analytics using state of the art technology to handle large datasets.

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Data Analytics Course Overview

This 3 sentence summary provides the high level information about the CS 434 Data Analytics Lecture 1 Introduction document: The document outlines the learning outcomes, textbook, course evaluation, and topics for the CS 434 Data Analytics course taught by Dr. Firas Jabloun, which includes identifying appropriate data mining techniques, understanding fundamental data mining concepts and techniques, and implementing analytics using state of the art technology to handle large datasets.

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CS 434

Data Analytics
Lecture 1
Introduction

Dr. Firas Jabloun

1
Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and understanding

• Identify the type of data-driven problems for which data mining techniques are most
appropriate

Skills and abilities

• Understand the fundamental processes, concepts and techniques of data mining.


• Know how to visualize, pre-process and transform data
• Choose and apply an adequate data analytics technique such as prediction, clustering
or classification for the business goal/task at hand
• Implement data analytics techniques using state of the art technology capable of
handling Big Data sets

Judgement and approach

• Interpret and evaluate the results of data analytics techniques

2
Text Book
Larose, D. T. and Larose, C. D. (2015).
Data mining and predictive analytics. 2nd ed,
Wiley, ISBN-10: 1118116194

3
Course Evaluation

Individual or
Percentage of
Assessment Method group
final grade
assessment
Quizzes 10% Individual

Midterm 20% Individual

Project 30% Group

Final exam 40% Individual

4
Course Content

Topics

Introduction to Data Mining and Applications

Review: Probability & Statistics

Data Exploration & Descriptive Analytics

Dimension Reduction

Linear Regression & Multi-variate statistical analysis

Clustering

Bayesian Networks

Classification & Logistic regression

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