Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
The University of Adelaide
This online course developed your knowledge of how data analysts operate in a professional business environment, enabling you to evaluate the ability of data analysts to add value to your organisation and to capitalise on the data analytical skills of your workforce. By developing knowledge of how data analysts operate in a professional business environment, you can explain how analysts examine large volumes of data and identify trends that inform decision-making.
6 weeks, 3 hours per week
Jennie Shaw
Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Academic)
The University of Adelaide
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explain data analytics and how it is practised and applied within a business environment.
- Evaluate the results of data analysis within a business context.
- Describe different types of data processing and explain how they solve common business problems.
Syllabus
Introduction to data analytics
- What is data analytics?
- Roles and responsibilities of a data analysis team
- Data analytics process
- Data analysis techniques
Discovering new patterns in data to transform your business
- Strategies in using new data patterns to transform your business
- Defining a cluster: similarity and distance measures
- The k-means clustering algorithm
- Optimising your clustering analysis with the elbow method
- Limitations of k-means clustering analyses
Making predictions using your data to solve business problems
- Simple linear and non-linear regressions
- Complex linear and non-linear regressions
- Non-linear regression with neural networks
- Overfitting
Predicting the category of data points to solve business problems
- k-Nearest neighbours
- Decision trees and random forests
The power of market basket analysis
- Association rules
- The Apriori Alogorithm
What are your influencers? Uncovering relationships in data through network analysis
- Basics of networks
- Network metrics
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Issued on 27th December 2022
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