Foundations of Predictive Analytics

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Survey course on the key topics in predictive analytics. I E 575 Foundations of Predictive Analytics (3) This will be a survey course on the various aspects of predictive data analytics. Students will learn methods associated with data analytics techniques and apply them to real examples using the R statistical system. The key survey topics will include linear regression models, classification methods, tree-based methods, dimensionality reduction, and clustering. The focus will be on providing a basic understanding of the fundamentals of these techniques with realistic applications in marketing, healthcare, engineering and web-based data. An introduction to predictive models based on text and network data will be provided.