DATA ANALYST COURSE IN EDMONTON

MODULE 1: DATA ANALYSIS FOUNDATION

• Data Analysis Introduction
• Data Preparation for Analysis
• Common Data Problems
• Various Tools for Data Analysis
• Evolution of Analytics domain

MODULE 2: CLASSIFICATION OF ANALYTICS

• Four types of the Analytics
• Descriptive Analytics
• Diagnostics Analytics
• Predictive Analytics
• Prescriptive Analytics
• Human Input in Various type of Analytics

MODULE 3: CRIP-DM Model

• Introduction to CRIP-DM Model
• Business Understanding
• Data Understanding
• Data Preparation
• Modeling
• Evaluation
• Deploying
• Monitoring

MODULE 4: UNIVARIATE DATA ANALYSIS

• Summary statistics -Determines the value’s center and spread.
• Measure of Central Tendencies: Mean, Median and Mode
• Measures of Variability: Range, Interquartile range, Variance and Standard Deviation
• Frequency table -This shows how frequently various values occur.
• Charts -A visual representation of the distribution of values.

MODULE 5: DATA ANALYSIS WITH VISUAL CHARTS

• Line Chart
• Column/Bar Chart
• Waterfall Chart
• Tree Map Chart
• Box Plot

MODULE 6: BI-VARIATE DATA ANALYSIS

• Scatter Plots
• Regression Analysis
• Correlation Coefficients

MODULE 1: PYTHON BASICS

• Introduction of python
• Installation of Python and IDE
• Python objects
• Python basic data types
• Number & Booleans, strings
• Arithmetic Operators
• Comparison Operators
• Assignment Operators
• Operator’s precedence and associativity

MODULE 2: PYTHON CONTROL STATEMENTS

• IF Conditional statement
• IF-ELSE
• NESTED IF
• Python Loops basics
• WHILE Statement
• FOR statements
• BREAK and CONTINUE statements

MODULE 3: PYTHON DATA STRUCTURES

• Basic data structure in python
• String object basics and inbuilt methods
• List: Object, methods, comprehensions
• Tuple: Object, methods, comprehensions
• Sets: Object, methods, comprehensions
• Dictionary: Object, methods, comprehensions

MODULE 4: PYTHON FUNCTIONS

• Functions basics
• Function Parameter passing
• Iterators
• Generator functions
• Lambda functions
• Map, reduce, filter functions

MODULE 5: PYTHON NUMPY PACKAGE

• NumPy Introduction
• Array – Data Structure
• Core Numpy functions
• Matrix Operations

MODULE 6: PYTHON PANDAS PACKAGE

• Pandas functions
• Data Frame and Series – Data Structure
• Data munging with Pandas
• Imputation and outlier analysis

MODULE 1: DATA SCIENCE ESSENTIALS

• Introduction to Data Science
• Data Science Terminologies
• Classifications of Analytics
• Data Science Project workflow

MODULE 2: DATA ENGINEERING FOUNDATION

• Introduction to Data Engineering
• Data engineering importance
• Ecosystems of data engineering tools
• Core concepts of data engineering

MODULE 3: PYTHON FOR DATA ANALYSIS

• Introduction to Python
• Python Data Types, Operators
• Flow Control statements, Functions
• Structured vs Unstructured Data
• Python Numpy package introduction
• Array Data Structures in Numpy
• Array operations and methods
• Python Pandas package introduction
• Data Structures : Series and DataFrame
• Pandas DataFrame key methods

MODULE 4: VISUALIZATION WITH PYTHON

• Visualization Packages (Matplotlib)
• Components Of A Plot, Sub-Plots
• Basic Plots: Line, Bar, Pie, Scatter
• Advanced Python Data Visualizations

MODULE 5: STATISTICS

• Descriptive And Inferential statistics
• Types Of Data, Sampling types
• Measures of Central Tendencies
• Data Variability: Standard Deviation
• Z-Score, Outliers, Normal Distribution
• Central Limit Theorem
• Histogram, Normality Tests
• Skewness & Kurtosis
• Understanding Hypothesis Testing
• P-Value Method, Types Of Errors
• T Distribution, One Sample T-Test
• Independent And Relational T Tests
• Direct And Indirect Correlation
• Regression Theory

MODULE 6: MACHINE LEARNING INTRODUCTION

• Machine Learning Introduction
• ML core concepts
• Unsupervised and Supervised Learning
• Clustering with K-Means
• Regression and Classification Models.
• Regression Algorithm: Linear Regression
• ML Model Evaluation
• Classification Algorithm: Logistic Regression

MODULE 1: COMPARISION AND CORRELATION ANALYSIS

• Data comparison Introduction
• Concept of Correlation
• Calculating Correlation with Excel
• Comparison vs Correlation
• Performing Comparison Analysis on Data
• Performing correlation Analysis on Data
• Hands-on case study 1: Comparison Analysis
• Hands-on case study 2 Correlation Analysis

MODULE 2: VARIANCE AND FREQUENCY ANALYSIS

• Concept of Variability and Variance
• Data Preparation for Variance Analysis
• Business use cases for Variance and Frequency Analysis
• Performing Variance and Frequency Analysis
• Hands-on case study 1: Variance Analysis
• Hands-on case study 2: Frequency Analysis

MODULE 3: RANKING ANALYSIS

• Introduction to Ranking Analysis
• Data Preparation for Ranking Analysis
• Performing Ranking Analysis with Excel
• Insights for Ranking Analysis
• Hands-on Case Study: Ranking Analysis

MODULE 4: BREAK EVEN ANALYSIS

• Concept of Breakeven Analysis
• Make or Buy Decision with Break Even
• Preparing Data for Breakeven Analysis
• Hands-on Case Study: Procurement Decision with break even

MODULE 5: PARETO (80/20 RULE) ANALSYSIS

• Pareto rule Introduction
• Preparation Data for Pareto Analysis
• Insights on Optimizing Operations with Pareto Analysis
• Performing Pareto Analysis on Data
• Hands-on case study: Pareto Analysis

MODULE 6: Time Series and Trend Analysis

• Introduction to Time Series Data
• Preparing data for Time Series Analysis
• Types of Trends
• Trend Analysis of the Data with Excel
• Insights from Trend Analysis
• Hands-on Case Study: Trend Analysis

MODULE 7: DATA ANALYSIS BUSINESS REPORTING

• Management Information System Introduction
• Various Data Reporting formats
• Creating Data Analysis reports as per the requirements
• Presenting the reports
• Hands-on case study: Create Data Analysis Reports

MODULE 1: DATA ANALYTICS FOUNDATION

• Business Analytics Overview
• Application of Business Analytics
• Visual Perspective
• Benefits of Business Analytics
• Challenges
• Classification of Business Analytics
• Data Sources
• Data Reliability and Validity
• Business Analytics Model

MODULE 2: OPTIMIZATION MODELS

• Prescriptive Analytics with Low Uncertainty
• Mathematical Modeling and Decision Modeling
• Break Even Analysis
• Product Pricing with Prescriptive Modeling
• Building an Optimization Model
• Case Study 1 : WonderZon Network Optimization
• Assignment 1 : KERC Inc, Optimum Manufacturing Quantity

MODULE 3: PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS WITH REGRESSION

• Mathematics beyond Linear Regression
• Hands on: Regression Modeling in Excel
• Case Study 2 : Sales Promotion Decision with Regression Analysis
• Assignment 2 : Design Marketing Decision board for QuikMark Inc.

MODULE 4: DECISION MODELING

• Prescriptive Analytics with High Uncertainty
• Comparing Decisions in Uncertain Settings
• Decision Trees for Decision Modeling
• Case Study 3 : Decision modeling of Internet Plans, Monte Carlo Simulation
• Case Study 4 : Kickathlon Sports Retailer Supplier Decision Modeling

MODULE 1: MACHINE LEARNING INTRODUCTION

• What Is ML? ML Vs AI
• ML Workflow, Popular ML Algorithms
• Clustering, Classification And Regression
• Supervised Vs Unsupervised

MODULE 2: ML ALGO: LINEAR REGRESSSION

• Introduction to Linear Regression
• How it works: Regression and Best Fit Line
• Hands-on Linear Regression with ML Tool

MODULE 3: ML ALGO: LOGISTIC REGRESSION

• Introduction to Logistic Regression
• How it works: Classification & Sigmoid Curve
• Hands-on Logistics Regression with ML Tool

MODULE 4: ML ALGO: KNN

• Introduction to KNN
• How It Works: Nearest Neighbor Concept
• Hands-on KNN with ML Tool

MODULE 5: ML ALGO: K MEANS CLUSTERING

• Understanding Clustering (Unsupervised)
• K Means Algorithm
• How it works : K Means theory
• Hands-on K Means Clustering with ML Tool

MODULE 6: ML ALGO: DECISION TREE

• Random Forest Ensemble technique
• How it works: Bagging Theory
• Hands-on Decision Tree with ML Tool

MODULE 7: ML ALGO: SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE (SVM)

• Introduction to SVM
• How It Works: SVM Concept, Kernel Trick
• Modeling and Evaluation of SVM in Python

MODULE 8: ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK (ANN)

• Introduction to ANN
• How It Works: Back prop, Gradient Descent
• Modeling and Evaluation of ANN in Python

MODULE 9: PROJECT: PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS WITH ML

• Project Business requirements
• Data Modeling
• Building Predictive Model with ML Tool
• Evaluation and Deployment
• Project Documentation and Report

MODULE 1: GIT INTRODUCTION

• Purpose of Version Control
• Popular Version control tools
• Git Distribution Version Control
• Terminologies
• Git Workflow
• Git Architecture

MODULE 2: GIT REPOSITORY and GitHub

• Git Repo Introduction
• Create New Repo with Init command
• Copying existing repo
• Git user and remote node
• Git Status and rebase
• Review Repo History
• GitHub Cloud Remote Repo

MODULE 3: COMMITS, PULL, FETCH AND PUSH

• Code commits
• Pull, Fetch and conflicts resolution
• Pushing to Remote Repo

MODULE 4: TAGGING, BRANCHING AND MERGING

• Organize code with branches
• Checkout branch
• Merge branches

MODULE 5: UNDOING CHANGES

• Editing Commits
• Commit command Amend flag
• Git reset and revert

MODULE 6: GIT WITH GITHUB AND BITBUCKET

• Creating GitHub Account
• Local and Remote Repo
• Collaborating with other developers
• Bitbucket Git account

MODULE 1: DATABASE INTRODUCTION

• DATABASE Overview
• Key concepts of database management
• CRUD Operations
• Relational Database Management System
• RDBMS vs No-SQL (Document DB)

MODULE 2: SQL BASICS

• Introduction to Databases
• Introduction to SQL
• SQL Commands
• MY SQL workbench installation
• Comments
• import and export dataset

MODULE 3: DATA TYPES AND CONSTRAINTS

• Numeric, Character, date time data type
• Primary key, Foreign key, Not null
• Unique, Check, default, Auto increment

MODULE 4: DATABASES AND TABLES (MySQL)

• Create database
• Delete database
• Show and use databases
• Create table, Rename table
• Delete table, Delete table records
• Create new table from existing data types
• Insert into, Update records
• Alter table

MODULE 5: SQL JOINS

• Inner join
• Outer join
• Left join
• Right join
• Cross join
• Self join

MODULE 6: SQL COMMANDS AND CLAUSES

• Select, Select distinct
• Aliases, Where clause
• Relational operators, Logical
• Between, Order by, In
• Like, Limit, null/not null, group by
• Having, Sub queries

MODULE 7: DOCUMENT DB/NO-SQL DB

• Introduction of Document DB
• Document DB vs SQL DB
• Popular Document DBs
• MongoDB basics
• Data format and Key methods
• MongoDB data management

MODULE 1: BIG DATA INTRODUCTION

• Big Data Overview
• Five Vs of Big Data
• What is Big Data and Hadoop
• Introduction to Hadoop
• Components of Hadoop Ecosystem
• Big Data Analytics Introduction

MODULE 2: HDFS AND MAP REDUCE

• HDFS – Big Data Storage
• Distributed Processing with Map Reduce
• Mapping and reducing stages concepts
• Key Terms: Output Format, Partitioners, Combiners, Shuffle, and Sort
• Hands-on Map Reduce task

MODULE 3: PYSPARK FOUNDATION

• PySpark Introduction
• Spark Configuration
• Resilient distributed datasets (RDD)
• Working with RDDs in PySpark
• Aggregating Data with Pair RDDs

MODULE 4: SPARK SQL and HADOOP HIVE

• Introducing Spark SQL
• Spark SQL vs Hadoop Hive
• Working with Spark SQL Query Language

MODULE 5: MACHINE LEARNING WITH SPARK ML

• Introduction to MLlib Various ML algorithms supported by Mlib
• ML model with Spark ML.
• Linear regression
• logistic regression
• Random forest

MODULE 6: KAFKA and Spark

• Kafka architecture
• Kafka workflow
• Configuring Kafka cluster
• Operations

MODULE 1: BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE INTRODUCTION

• What Is Business Intelligence (BI)?
• What Bi Is The Core Of Business Decisions?
• BI Evolution
• Business Intelligence Vs Business Analytics
• Data Driven Decisions With Bi Tools
• The Crisp-Dm Methodology

MODULE 2: BI WITH TABLEAU: INTRODUCTION

• The Tableau Interface
• Tableau Workbook, Sheets And Dashboards
• Filter Shelf, Rows And Columns
• Dimensions And Measures
• Distributing And Publishing

MODULE 3: TABLEAU: CONNECTING TO DATA SOURCE

• Connecting To Data File , Database Servers
• Managing Fields
• Managing Extracts
• Saving And Publishing Data Sources
• Data Prep With Text And Excel Files
• Join Types With Union
• Cross-Database Joins
• Data Blending
• Connecting To Pdfs

MODULE 4: TABLEAU : BUSINESS INSIGHTS

• Getting Started With Visual Analytics
• Drill Down And Hierarchies
• Sorting & Grouping
• Creating And Working Sets
• Using The Filter Shelf
• Interactive Filters
• Parameters
• The Formatting Pane
• Trend Lines & Reference Lines
• Forecasting
• Clustering

MODULE 5: DASHBOARDS, STORIES AND PAGES

• Dashboards And Stories Introduction
• Building A Dashboard
• Dashboard Objects
• Dashboard Formatting
• Dashboard Interactivity Using Actions
• Story Points
• Animation With Pages

MODULE 6: BI WITH POWER-BI

• Power BI basics
• Basics Visualizations
• Business Insights with Power BI

MODULE 1: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE OVERVIEW

• Evolution Of Human Intelligence
• What Is Artificial Intelligence?
• History Of Artificial Intelligence.
• Why Artificial Intelligence Now?
• Ai Terminologies
• Areas Of Artificial Intelligence
• Ai Vs Data Science Vs Machine Learning

MODULE 2: DEEP LEARNING INTRODUCTION

• Deep Neural Network
• Machine Learning vs Deep Learning
• Feature Learning in Deep Networks
• Applications of Deep Learning Networks

MODULE 3: TENSORFLOW FOUNDATION

• TensorFlow Installation and setup
• TensorFlow Structure and Modules
• Hands-On: ML modeling with TensorFlow

MODULE 4: COMPUTER VISION INTRODUCTION

• Image Basics
• Convolution Neural Network (CNN)
• Image Classification with CNN
• Hands-On: Cat vs Dogs Classification with CNN Network

MODULE 5: NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (NLP)

• NLP Introduction
• Bag of Words Models
• Word Embedding
• Language Modeling
• Hands-On: BERT Algorithm

MODULE 6: AI ETHICAL ISSUES AND CONCERNS

• Issues And Concerns Around Ai
• Ai And Ethical Concerns
• Ai And Bias
• Ai: Ethics, Bias, And Trust

Data analytics is the process of examining and interpreting data to extract useful insights and make informed decisions.

Anyone who possesses the required skills, knowledge, and training can pursue a profession in data analytics, but a strong foundation in mathematics, statistics, and computer programming is recommended.

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Data analytics can be classified into three types: descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics. Descriptive analytics focuses on analyzing past data to understand past occurrences. Predictive analytics employs statistical methods and machine learning algorithms to forecast future events based on historical data. Prescriptive analytics utilizes various optimization techniques to determine the best course of action to achieve a particular objective.

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