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Predictive analytics: Data Mining, Machine Learning, and Data Science for Practitioners

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Lessons

17 Interactive Lessons · 133 topics
01 Introduction 2 topics
  • About This eBook
  • Foreword
02 Introduction to Analytics 9 topics
  • What’s in a Name?
  • Why the Sudden Popularity of Analytics and Data Science?
  • The Application Areas of Analytics
  • The Main Challenges of Analytics
  • A Longitudinal View of Analytics
  • A Simple Taxonomy for Analytics
  • The Cutting Edge of Analytics: IBM Watson
  • Summary
  • References
03 Introduction to Predictive Analytics and Data Mining 8 topics · 2 LiveLab
  • What Is Data Mining?
  • What Data Mining Is Not
  • The Most Common Data Mining Applications
  • What Kinds of Patterns Can Data Mining Discover?
  • Popular Data Mining Tools
  • The Dark Side of Data Mining: Privacy Concerns
  • Summary
  • References

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04 Standardized Processes for Predictive Analytics 8 topics
  • The Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) Process
  • Cross-Industry Standard Process for Data Mining (CRISP-DM)
  • SEMMA
  • SEMMA Versus CRISP-DM
  • Six Sigma for Data Mining
  • Which Methodology Is Best?
  • Summary
  • References
05 Data and Methods for Predictive Analytics 13 topics · 1 LiveLab
  • The Nature of Data in Data Analytics
  • Preprocessing of Data for Analytics
  • Data Mining Methods
  • Prediction
  • Classification
  • Decision Trees
  • Cluster Analysis for Data Mining
  • k-Means Clustering Algorithm
  • Association
  • Apriori Algorithm
  • Data Mining and Predictive Analytics Misconceptions and Realities
  • Summary
  • References

1 LiveLab in this lesson — see the labs panel →

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18 LiveLabs
  • Creating a Decision Tree in Python
  • Creating a Decision Tree in KNIME
  • Running k-Means Clustering Algorithm in KNIME
  • Using the k-Nearest Neighbor Algorithm
  • Using ANN and SVM for Prediction Type Analytics Problems
  • Implementing Linear Regression in Python
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