Introductory:
Introduction to Data, Big Data and Data Science, Big Data Architectures, Small Data, What is Data? A Short Taxonomy of Data Analytics, Examples of Data Use,A Project on Data Analytics.
Descriptive Statistics:
Scale Types, Descriptive Univariate Analysis, Descriptive Bivariate Analysis.
Multivariate Analysis:
Multivariate Frequencies, Multivariate Data Visualization, Multivariate Statistics, Infographics and Word Clouds.
Data Quality and Preprocessing:
Data Quality, Converting to a Different Scale Type, Converting to a Different Scale, Data Transformation, Dimensionality Reduction.
Clustering:
Distance Measures, Clustering Validation, Clustering Techniques.
Frequent Pattern Mining:
Frequent Itemsets, Association Rules, Behind Support and Confidence, Other Types of Pattern.
Cheat Sheet and Project on Descriptive Analytics:
Cheat Sheet of Descriptive Analytics, Project on Descriptive Analytics.
Regression:
Predictive Performance Estimation, Finding the Parameters of the Model, Technique and Model Selection.
Classification:
Binary Classification, Predictive Performance Measures for Classification, Distance-based Learning Algorithms, Probabilistic Classification Algorithms.
Course Outcomes:
At the end of the course the student will be able to:
Question paper pattern:
Textbook
1 A General Introduction to Data Analytics João Mendes et al Wiley 2019