Data Science for Big Data Analytics

Big data is data sets that are so voluminous and complex that traditional data processing application software are inadequate to deal with them. Big data challenges include capturing data, data storage, data analysis, search, sharing, transfer, visualization, querying, updating and information privacy.

Introduction to Data Science for Big Data Analytics

• Data Science Overview
• Big Data Overview
• Data Structures
• Drivers and complexities of Big Data
• Big Data ecosystem and a new approach to analytics
• Key technologies in Big Data
• Data Mining process and problems
  • Association Pattern Mining
  • Data Clustering
  • Outlier Detection
  • Data Classification

Introduction to Data Analytics lifecycle

• Discovery
• Data preparation
• Model planning
• Model building
• Presentation/Communication of results
• Operationalization
• Exercise: Case study

From this point most of the training time (80%) will be spent on examples and exercises in R and related big data technology.

Getting started with R

• Installing R and Rstudio
• Features of R language
• Objects in R
• Data in R
• Data manipulation
• Big data issues
• Exercises

Getting started with Hadoop

• Installing Hadoop
• Understanding Hadoop modes
• HDFS
• MapReduce architecture
• Hadoop related projects overview
• Writing programs in Hadoop MapReduce
• Exercises

Integrating R and Hadoop with RHadoop

• Components of RHadoop
• Installing RHadoop and connecting with Hadoop
• The architecture of RHadoop
• Hadoop streaming with R
• Data analytics problem solving with RHadoop
• Exercises

Pre-processing and preparing data

• Data preparation steps
• Feature extraction
• Data cleaning
• Data integration and transformation
• Data reduction – sampling, feature subset selection,
• Dimensionality reduction
• Discretization and binning
• Exercises and Case study

Exploratory data analytic methods in R

• Descriptive statistics
• Exploratory data analysis
• Visualization – preliminary steps
• Visualizing single variable
• Examining multiple variables
• Statistical methods for evaluation
• Hypothesis testing
• Exercises and Case study

Data Visualizations

• Basic visualizations in R
• Packages for data visualization ggplot2, lattice, plotly, lattice
• Formatting plots in R
• Advanced graphs
• Exercises

Regression (Estimating future values)

• Linear regression
• Use cases
• Model description
• Diagnostics
• Problems with linear regression
• Shrinkage methods, ridge regression, the lasso
• Generalizations and nonlinearity
• Regression splines
• Local polynomial regression
• Generalized additive models
• Regression with RHadoop
• Exercises and Case study

Classification

• The classification related problems
• Bayesian refresher
• Naïve Bayes
• Logistic regression
• K-nearest neighbors
• Decision trees algorithm
• Neural networks
• Support vector machines
• Diagnostics of classifiers
• Comparison of classification methods
• Scalable classification algorithms
• Exercises and Case study

Assessing model performance and selection

• Bias, Variance and model complexity
• Accuracy vs Interpretability
• Evaluating classifiers
• Measures of model/algorithm performance
• Hold-out method of validation
• Cross-validation
• Tuning machine learning algorithms with caret package
• Visualizing model performance with Profit ROC and Lift curves

Ensemble Methods

• Bagging
• Random Forests
• Boosting
• Gradient boosting
• Exercises and Case study

Support vector machines for classification and regression

• Maximal Margin classifiers
  • Support vector classifiers
  • Support vector machines
  • SVM’s for classification problems
  • SVM’s for regression problems
• Exercises and Case study

Identifying unknown groupings within a data set

• Feature Selection for Clustering
• Representative based algorithms: k-means, k-medoids
• Hierarchical algorithms: agglomerative and divisive methods
• Probabilistic base algorithms: EM
• Density based algorithms: DBSCAN, DENCLUE
• Cluster validation
• Advanced clustering concepts
• Clustering with RHadoop
• Exercises and Case study

Discovering connections with Link Analysis

• Link analysis concepts
• Metrics for analyzing networks
• The Pagerank algorithm
• Hyperlink-Induced Topic Search
• Link Prediction
• Exercises and Case study

Association Pattern Mining

• Frequent Pattern Mining Model
• Scalability issues in frequent pattern mining
• Brute Force algorithms
• Apriori algorithm
• The FP growth approach
• Evaluation of Candidate Rules
• Applications of Association Rules
• Validation and Testing
• Diagnostics
• Association rules with R and Hadoop
• Exercises and Case study

Constructing recommendation engines

• Understanding recommender systems
• Data mining techniques used in recommender systems
• Recommender systems with recommenderlab package
• Evaluating the recommender systems
• Recommendations with RHadoop
• Exercise: Building recommendation engine

Text analysis

• Text analysis steps
• Collecting raw text
• Bag of words
• Term Frequency –Inverse Document Frequency
• Determining Sentiments
• Exercises and Case study