Introduction to Data Mining for Business Intelligence
Introduction to Data Mining for Business Intelligence Course Overview
OVERVIEW
CEA CAPA Partner Institution: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Location: Madrid, Spain
Primary Subject Area: Business
Instruction in: English
Course Code: 13478
Transcript Source: Partner Institution
Course Details: Level 300, 400
Recommended Semester Credits: 3
Contact Hours: 42
Prerequisites: This course assumes that the student knows the contents of Statistics I and Statistics II and the lesson of Properties of Matrices in Mathematics for Economics II. Some notions in Multivariate Statistics
DESCRIPTION
1. Learning the R Statistical Language. 1.1 Basic commands. 1.2 Graphics in R. 1.3 Statistical functions in R and basic programming. 2. Visualization Techniques for complex business data. 2.1 Principal component analysis theory. 2.2 Basic examples with R code. 2.3 Case studies. 3. Multidimensional Scaling. 3.1 Metric scaling theory. 3.2 Examples with R code. 3.3 Perceptual mappings in R. 4. Cluster Analysis. 4.1 Hierarchical methods. 4.2 Centroid methods: k-means. 4.3 Case studies. 5. Classification Trees. 5.1 Information theory. 5.2 Classification trees algorithms. 5.3 Real case: credit scoring. 6. Real Case Studies. 6.1 Comprehensive real cases involving all the studied techniques 8. Real Case Studies. 8.1 Comprehensive real cases involving all the studied techniques.