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Data Analytics

Course Summary

The Data Analytics training course covers fundamental concepts around extracting business insights from large data sets. The course will be heavily focused on extracting and aggregating data and presenting it for exterior consumption.

The course begins by teaching participants how to understand the analytics process and understanding the shape of their data. Next, the course covers metrics and what they can tell you, model creation, and how to clean the data. The course concludes with error analysis and how to present your data.

Prerequisites:

  • Experience using Pythhon
Purpose
Learn how to locate, manipulate, and analyse data with Python, no matter the size of the data set
Audience
Developers with some experience in Python interested in learning more about Python, Data Science, or Data Visualizations
Role
Business Analyst | Data Engineer | Data Scientist | Software Developer | Web Developer
Skill Level
Introduction
Style
Lecture | Hands-on Activities
Duration
3 Days
Related Technologies
Python

 

Learning Objectives
  • Acquire tabular data, clean it, manipulate it, and run basic inferential statistical analyses
  • Describe common Python functionality and features used for data science
  • Adopt techniques in Pandas to create, structure, manipulate, and clean data
  • Manage various data formats within Python
  • Visualize the data

What You'll Learn:

In the Data Analytics training course, you'll learn:

Understanding the Analytics Process

  • Load, prepare, manipulate, model, and analyze
  • Collection of data
  • Transforming data
  • Cleaning of data
  • Modeling of data

Getting the Shape of the Data

  • Using sampling to understand the shape of the data
  • Context around data
  • Sampling

Understanding What Metrics Can Show and What They Cannot

  • Pattern recognition
  • Vanity Metrics vs Important metrics
  • Real-Time vs Historical data
  • Handling anomalies and outages in data

Model Creation

  • Measures of accuracy around models
  • Regression vs. Classification
  • Predictive analytics

Cleaning Data

  • Handling bad values
  • NULL value removal
  • COALESCING

Removing Malformed/Immaterial Data

  • Data replacement
  • Dropping unnecessary noise

Finding Error Patterns

When to Remove Data

Signs of an Error in an Analysis

Presenting Data

Chart Types:

  • Histogram
  • Time Series
  • Line
  • Mosaic
  • Classification

Value of Visual Explanation

  • Setting up data updates (daily/weekly/monthly)
  • Summary
“I appreciated the instructor's technique of writing live code examples rather than using fixed slide decks to present the material.”

VMware

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