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Join the data revolution. Companies are searching for data scientists. This specialized field demands multiple skills not easy to obtain through conventional curricula. Introduce yourself to the basics of data science and leave armed with practical experience extracting value from big data. #uwdatasci
Syllabus
- Examples, data science articulated, history and context, technology landscape
- Databases and the relational algebra
- Parallel databases, parallel query processing, in-database analytics
- MapReduce, Hadoop, relationship to databases, algorithms, extensions, languages
- Key-value stores and NoSQL; tradeoffs of SQL and NoSQL
- Topics in statistical modeling: basic concepts, experiment design, pitfalls
- Topics in machine learning: supervised learning (rules, trees, forests, nearest neighbor, regression), optimization (gradient descent and variants), unsupervised learning
- Visualization, data products, visual data analytics
- Provenance, privacy, ethics, governance
- Graph Analytics: structure, traversals, analytics, PageRank, community detection, recursive queries, semantic web
- Guest Lectures
Instructors
- Bill Howe - Scalable Data Analytics
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