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No prior experience required
1 week to complete
at 10 hours a week
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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Beginner level
No prior experience required
1 week to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

There are 7 modules in this course

This course offers students an opportunity to learn fundamentals of computation required to understand and analyze real world data. The course helps students to work with modern data structures, apply data cleaning and data wrangling operations. The course covers conceptual and practical applications of probability and distribution, cluster analysis, text analysis and time series analysis.

This is Part 2 of 2.

In this module, you will explore the realm of time series data, gaining a comprehensive understanding of its characteristics, components (trend, seasonality, and noise), and prevalent sources across diverse domains. Through effective visualization techniques and descriptive statistics, you will acquire the skills to recognize patterns and trends within time series data.

What's included

5 videos5 readings2 assignments

5 videosβ€’Total 28 minutes
  • Meet Your Facultyβ€’1 minute
  • Course Overviewβ€’2 minutes
  • Time Series Feature Extractionβ€’11 minutes
  • Permutation Entropy and Complexity Methodβ€’11 minutes
  • CECP Exampleβ€’3 minutes
5 readingsβ€’Total 49 minutes
  • Course Introductionβ€’2 minutes
  • Syllabus - Foundations of Data Analytics Part 2β€’5 minutes
  • Academic Integrityβ€’1 minute
  • Time Series Feature Extractionβ€’1 minute
  • Permutation Entropy and Complexity Methodβ€’40 minutes
2 assignmentsβ€’Total 20 minutes
  • Module 8 Assess Your Learning: Time Series Feature Extractionβ€’10 minutes
  • Module 8 Assess Your Learning: Time Series Featuresβ€’10 minutes

This module focuses on feature extraction in time series data analysis, emphasizing the identification and utilization of diverse features. We will explore how these features capture essential information, enabling a comprehensive understanding of time series data. You will gain practical insights into the application of various feature types, enhancing your ability to extract meaningful patterns and make informed analyses in the dynamic field of time series data analysis.

What's included

5 videos5 readings3 assignments

5 videosβ€’Total 23 minutes
  • Text Processingβ€’4 minutes
  • Text Processing Basics: Tokenization and Stemmingβ€’3 minutes
  • Bag of Words (BoW)β€’2 minutes
  • TF-IDF and Word Embeddingsβ€’9 minutes
  • Text Analysis Techniquesβ€’5 minutes
5 readingsβ€’Total 36 minutes
  • Text Processingβ€’3 minutes
  • Text Processing Basics: Tokenization and Stemmingβ€’26 minutes
  • Bag of Words (BoW)β€’1 minute
  • TF-IDF and Word Embeddingsβ€’3 minutes
  • Text Analysis Techniquesβ€’3 minutes
3 assignmentsβ€’Total 55 minutes
  • Module 9 Assess Your Learning: Text Processing Basicsβ€’20 minutes
  • Module 9 Assess Your Learning: BoW and TF-IDFβ€’20 minutes
  • Module 9 Assess Your Learning: Text Analysis Techniquesβ€’15 minutes

This module focuses on the comprehensive preprocessing and analysis of textual data. You will acquire practical skills in text data preprocessing, encompassing tasks such as tokenization, stemming, and stopword removal. We will discuss diverse methods for representing text data, including bag-of-words (BoW), Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF), and word embeddings. We will also explore various text analysis techniques such as sentiment analysis, topic modeling, and named entity recognition. The practical application of these techniques enables you to extract meaningful insights, patterns, and nuanced meanings from textual data, empowering you to navigate and derive value from the intricate landscape of text analysis.

What's included

2 videos2 readings2 assignments

2 videosβ€’Total 8 minutes
  • N-Grams and Bi-Gramsβ€’4 minutes
  • Word Correlation Using PMIβ€’3 minutes
2 readingsβ€’Total 6 minutes
  • N-Grams and Bigramsβ€’3 minutes
  • Word Correlation Using PMIβ€’3 minutes
2 assignmentsβ€’Total 20 minutes
  • Module 10 Assess Your Learning: N-Grams and Bigramsβ€’10 minutes
  • Module 10 Assess Your Learning: Word Correlations Using PMIβ€’10 minutes

In this module, we examine network theory, equipping you with a foundational understanding of nodes, edges, and graphs. We will explore various network types, from social networks to keyword co-occurrence networks, learning to discern their relevance in diverse domains. Practical application includes extracting and creating keyword co-occurrence networks from text data through preprocessing, keyword identification, and relationship construction. You will then analyze these networks, employing measures like centrality and community detection, enhancing your ability to interpret results. This module culminates in the extraction of meaningful insights, enabling you to identify keywords and thematic clusters within textual data through the lens of network analysis.

What's included

3 videos3 readings2 assignments

3 videosβ€’Total 29 minutes
  • Fundamentals of Complex Networkβ€’11 minutes
  • Text Analysis Using Keyword Co-Occurrence Networkβ€’12 minutes
  • Keyword Co-occurrences Networksβ€’5 minutes
3 readingsβ€’Total 9 minutes
  • Fundamentals of Complex Networkβ€’3 minutes
  • Text Analysis Using Keyword Co-Occurrence Networkβ€’3 minutes
  • Keyword Co-occurrences Networksβ€’3 minutes
2 assignmentsβ€’Total 40 minutes
  • Module 11 Assess Your Learning: Fundamentals of Complex Networksβ€’20 minutes
  • Module 11 Assess Your Learning: Keyword Co-Occurrence Networksβ€’20 minutes

In this module, we examine network theory, equipping you with a foundational understanding of nodes, edges, and graphs. We will explore various network types, from social networks to keyword co-occurrence networks, learning to discern their relevance in diverse domains. Practical application includes extracting and creating keyword co-occurrence networks from text data through preprocessing, keyword identification, and relationship construction. You will then analyze these networks, employing measures like centrality and community detection, enhancing your ability to interpret results. This module culminates in the extraction of meaningful insights, enabling you to identify keywords and thematic clusters within textual data through the lens of network analysis.

What's included

2 videos4 readings2 assignments

2 videosβ€’Total 21 minutes
  • Statistics in Data Analysis: Random Variablesβ€’13 minutes
  • Statistics in Data Analysis: Probability Distribution Functionsβ€’8 minutes
4 readingsβ€’Total 121 minutes
  • Random Variablesβ€’80 minutes
  • Examples: Random Variablesβ€’20 minutes
  • Probability Distribution Functionsβ€’1 minute
  • Examples: Probability Distribution Functionsβ€’20 minutes
2 assignmentsβ€’Total 25 minutes
  • Module 12 Assess Your Learning: Random Variablesβ€’10 minutes
  • Module 12 Assess Your Learning: Probability Distribution Functionsβ€’15 minutes

In this module, you will inspect the intricate world of joint probability distributions. You will develop the skill to identify and interpret these distributions, employing probability mass functions (PMFs) for discrete variables and probability density functions (PDFs) for continuous variables. This module will further equip you with the capability to calculate and interpret marginal probability distributions, involving the summing or integrating of variables within a joint distribution. The theoretical insights and practical calculations will help you gain a complete understanding of the relationships between variables and the nuanced exploration of joint, marginal, and conditional probability distributions.

What's included

1 video2 readings1 assignment

1 videoβ€’Total 5 minutes
  • Joint, Marginal and Conditional Distributionsβ€’5 minutes
2 readingsβ€’Total 41 minutes
  • Joint, Marginal and Conditional Distributionsβ€’1 minute
  • Examples: Joint, Marginal and Conditional Distributionsβ€’40 minutes
1 assignmentβ€’Total 10 minutes
  • Module 13 Assess Your Learning: Joint, Marginal, and Conditional Distributionsβ€’10 minutes

In this module, you will explore the fundamental concept of mathematical expectation, or expected value, in probability theory. Through theory and practice, you will calculate the expected value for both discrete and continuous random variables, gaining insights into its significance as a measure of central tendency. We will also explore the statistical concepts of covariance and correlation, guiding participants in the calculation of coefficients to quantify relationships between pairs of random variables. Interpretation of these results allows you to classify the degree and direction of association through positive, negative, or zero covariance/correlation values. Additionally, the module addresses the concept of independence, elucidating its relationship with zero covariance and correlation.

What's included

3 videos5 readings1 assignment

3 videosβ€’Total 13 minutes
  • Mathematical Expectationβ€’5 minutes
  • Mathematical Expectation Pt 2β€’4 minutes
  • Covariance and Correlationβ€’4 minutes
5 readingsβ€’Total 15 minutes
  • Mathematical Expectationβ€’1 minute
  • Example: Mathematical Expectationβ€’10 minutes
  • Covariance and Correlationβ€’1 minute
  • Course Conclusionβ€’1 minute
  • Congratulations! β€’2 minutes
1 assignmentβ€’Total 10 minutes
  • Module 14 Assess Your Learning: Covariance and Correlationβ€’10 minutes

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6 Coursesβ€’1,255 learners

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