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Big Data and Education
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 8 Sequences
- Advanced Level
Course details
Syllabus
Week 1: Prediction Modeling
Regressors
Classifiers
Week 2: Model Goodness and Validation
Detector Confidence
Diagnostic Metrics
* Cross-Validation and Over-Fitting
Week 3: Behavior Detection and Feature Engineering
Ground Truth for Behavior Detection
Data Synchronization and Grain Size
Feature Engineering
Knowledge Engineering
Week 4: Knowledge Inference
Knowledge Inference
Bayesian Knowledge Tracing (BKT)
Performance Factor Analysis
Item Response Theory
Week 5: Relationship Mining
Correlation Mining
Causal Mining
Association Rule Mining
Sequential Pattern Mining
* Network Analysis
Week 6: Visualization
Learning Curves
Moment by Moment Learning Graphs
Scatter Plots
State Space Diagrams
* Other Awesome EDM Visualizations
Week 7: Structure Discovery
Clustering
Validation and Selection
Factor Analysis
Knowledge Inference Structures
Week 8: Discovery with Models
Discovery with Models
Text Mining
* Hidden Markov Models
Prerequisite
Basic knowledge of statistics, data mining, mathematical modeling, or algorithms is recommended. Experience with programming is not required.
Instructors
Ryan Baker
Associate Professor
University of Pennsylvania
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