Week 7 - Exam Review
Week 7 - Exam Review
Reminder
Test 1
• True/False
• Multiple choice
• Short answers
• Based on
• Lectures
• Demos
• Homework
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Test 1
No scantron
No calculator
No use of AI
No phones
One blank paper and pen allowed
90 Minutes
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Course Outline
Test 2 – Dec 9 - 13
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Week 1-Introduction
• Course Introduction
• Introducing the art of visualization
• Introduction to Analytics
• Types of Analytics (Descriptive, Predictive and
Prescriptive)
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Week 2-Descriptive Analysis
(Visualization)
• Visualization Examples
• Developing exploratory questions
• Importance of Storytelling
• Types of visualizations
• Variable Types – Structured/Unstructured
• Nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio
• Demonstration using Tableau: Visualizing data
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Week 3-Visualizations cont.
• More examples
• Demonstration – Maps
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Week 4 - Forecast, Dashboards and
Story
Techniques
1. Moving average
2. Weighted moving average
3. Exponential smoothing
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Forecast Accuracy Metrics
MAD
Actual t Forecast t MAD weights all errors evenly
Mean Absolute Deviation
n
Actual t Forecast t
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MSE weights errors according to
MSE their squared values
n 1 Mean Squared Error
Actualt Forecast t
Actualt
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MAPE weights errors according to
MAPE relative error
n Mean Absolute Percent Error
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• Introduction
• Examples
• Graph theory
Week 5 – • Data Representation
Network • Types of Network
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Week 6 – Network
Analytics Cont.
• Types of Network
• Network Properties/Centralities
• Degree and average degree: directed network
• Degree Distribution
• Closeness
• Betweenness
• Distance, Diameter and Average Path Length
• Getting Started with Gephi
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• Network Problems
• Cliques
• Connected Components
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Quiz 1
• Question 1: “The average number of friends of a student on Facebook in this class is 300” is an example
of
• Descriptive Analytics
• Question 3: The shorter the forecast period, the more accurately the forecasts tend to track what actually
happens. - True
• Question 4: Which of the following is not one of the 3 Vs in the original definition of Big Data?
• Victory, Volume, Velocity, Variety
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Quiz 1
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Homework 3 and Quiz 2
Solutions– Will Post Online
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Good luck!
Thank you
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