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Content
1. Introduction and Goals
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- Handout: Introduction and Goal
- Introduction and Goals
- Short Quiz #1
2. Empirical Inquiry, Critical Thinking, and Reasoning
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- Handout: Empirical Inquiry, Critical Thinking, and Reasoning
- Empirical Inquiry
- Critical Thinking
- Knowledge Check: Critical Thinking
- Inductive and Deductive Reasoning
- Knowledge Check: Inductive and Deductive Reasonings
- Short Quiz #2
3. Analytics Strategy
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- Handout: Analytics Strategy
- Analytics Strategy
- Short Quiz #3
- Assignment #1: Framing Data Analytics Problems
4. Understanding Data
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- Handout: Understanding Data
- Structured and Unstructured Data
- Knowledge Check: Structured and Unstructured Data
- Data Types
- Knowledge Check: Data Types
- Data Quality
- Data Governance
- Short Quiz #4
- Import and Explore Data in Microsoft Excel & Power BI
- Datasets
- Assignment #2: Importing and Exploring Data
5. Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)
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- Handout: Exploratory Data Analysis
- Descriptive Statistics
- Knowledge Check: Descriptive Statistics
- Data Visualization
- Knowledge Check: Data Visualization
- Short Quiz #5
- Data Visualization with Microsoft Excel
- Data Visualization with Microsoft Power BI
- Assignment #3: Exploratory Data Analysis
Self Reflection Week 1
Self Reflection 1 sample
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- 6. Data Analytics
- Handout: Data Analytics
- Data Analytics
- Correlation
- Linear Regression
- Short Quiz #6: Data Analytics
- Datasets
- Guide: How to download a csv file from github?
- Assignment #4: Linear Regression with Microsoft Excel
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- 7. Analytical Modelling/Machine Learning (ML)
- Linear Regression with Microsoft Excel
- Logistic Regression with Microsoft Excel
- Introduction to Machine Learning
- Simple Text Analytics: Polarity Scores from Customer Reviews
- Simple Recommender System: Product Recommendation with Collaborative Filtering
- Self Reflection 2
Completion Rules
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- All units must be completed
- Leads to a certificate with a duration: Forever
