Advanced Business Analytics

Catalog description

Machine learning brings together computer science and statistics to harness the predictive power of data. It’s a must-have skill for all aspiring data analysts and scientists or anyone else who wants to wrestle all that raw data into refined trends and predictions. This class will teach you the end-to-end process of investigating data through a predictive machine-learning lens. It will lead you to extract and identify useful features that best represent your data. It covers the essential machine learning algorithms and how to evaluate the performance of your machine learning algorithms. Through a series of practical case studies, you will gain applied experience in major areas of supervised and unsupervised machine learning, including prediction, classification, and text analytics. You will learn to analyze large and complex datasets, create systems that adapt and improve over time, and build intelligent applications that can make predictions from data.