Data Analytics

Teacher(s)

Fouss François;

Language

English

Prerequisites

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Main themes

Nowadays, data are everywhere. For most organizations, potentially every area of its business, as well as every relationship related to its business, can now be quantified and recorded. Such amount of data led to the emergence of powerful methods for storing, processing, querying, and extracting useful information/knowledge from these data. This course will be focused on methods for data understanding, design, management, preparation, modeling, querying, and visualization, as a global means for the organization of making better decisions. As a central element in data analytics, modeling and methodology will play an important role in this course, including, e.g., data design for business intelligence analytics, predictive modeling, or fitting statistical models to data.

Content

The scope of the course is broad and the instructor will certainly not be able to cover all of the material concerning data analytics in business. Depending of his background, interests and experience, he will focus on some specific techniques or skim through a broad range of methods.
Potential covered topics are (but not limited to): database design for data analytics, business intelligence techniques, dimensionality reduction for data visualization, extracting recurrent patterns from data, cluster analysis, predictive modeling (supervised classification and regression methods), modeling relationships by latent variable techniques, data analysis algorithms scaling to big data, etc. All these techniques must be illustrated through business applications.

Teaching methods

Classical courses and case studies.

Bibliography

Sources potentielles :
Provost &  Fawcett (2013) 'Data science for business'. O'Reilly.
Sherman (2014) 'Business intelligence guidebook: from data integration to analytics'. Morgan Kaufmann.
Efraim, Sharda & Delen (2010) 'Decision support and business intelligence Systems'. Pearson.
Leskovec, Rajaraman  & Ullman (2014) 'Mining of massive datasets, 2^nd ed'. Cambridge University Press.
Kelleher, Mac Namee & D'Arcy (2015) 'Fundamentals of machine learning for predictive data analytics. MIT Press.
Hastie, Tibshirani & Friedman (2009), "The elements of statistical learning, 2^nd ed". Springer-Verlag.
Izenman (2008), 'Modern multivariate statistical techniques: regression, classification, and manifold learning. Springer.
Bellanger & Tomassone (2014), "Exploration de données et méthodes statistiques : data analysis & data mining avec le Logiciel R". Ellipses.

Faculty or entity

CLSM