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Data Analytics Training in Easton, Maryland

Data Analytics is the practice of using data for gaining insights, for forecasting and for decision-making.

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What you'll learn

Data Analytics is the practice of using data for gaining insights, for forecasting and for decision-making. This training workshop will introduce techniques and tools that knowledge workers can use for analyzing data using popular software tools. At the end of the workshop, the participant will be able to (a) manage and prepare data for analysis, (ii) summarize data across multiple dimensions, (iii) interpret distributions of the data, (iv) identify and interpret relationships among data elements, (v) compare data summaries and (vi) forecast based on historical data.

Prerequisites

Basic math and some Excel skills.

Course Outline

Session 1: Introduction to data

Data can be categorical or numeric.

Scales of measurement

Transforming data

Session 2: Summarizing the data

Pivot table, pivot chart, and dashboards

Distributions, box and whisker plot, and interpretations

Session 3: Discovering relationships among data

Scatter-plots and interpretations of relationships

Create linear relationships between variables

Predictions and determine confidence intervals.

Session 4: Comparing sets of data for similarity.

Use of t-tests and ANOVA

Interpretation of results

Session 5: Time-series data

Analysis of time-series to forecast future values

Comparing forecasting models.

Session 6: Data mining

Identifying data mining projects

Data mining techniques

Interpretation of results

Each session will include (a) presentation, summary of literature with references for further

information, (ii) hands-on lab exercises with real data sets and (iii) quizzes to assess

comprehension.

Tools used: Excel and Rapidminer

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