Design Thinking and Predictive Analytics for Data Products

Design Thinking and Predictive Analytics for Data Products

This course is part of Python Data Products for Predictive Analytics Specialization

Instructors: Julian McAuley

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There are 5 modules in this course

This is the second course in the four-course specialization Python Data Products for Predictive Analytics, building on the data processing covered in Course 1 and introducing the basics of designing predictive models in Python. In this course, you will understand the fundamental concepts of statistical learning and learn various methods of building predictive models. At each step in the specialization, you will gain hands-on experience in data manipulation and building your skills, eventually culminating in a capstone project encompassing all the concepts taught in the specialization.

Welcome to the second course in this specialization! This week, we will go over the syllabus, download all course materials, and get your system up and running for the course. We will also introduce the basics of supervised learning and regression.

What's included

5 videos4 readings3 assignments2 discussion prompts

5 videosTotal 45 minutes

Introduction to Supervised Learning10 minutesPreview module
Supervised Learning: Regression9 minutes
Regression in Python10 minutes
Time-Series Regression8 minutes
Autoregression6 minutes

4 readingsTotal 40 minutes

Syllabus10 minutes
Course Materials10 minutes
Set Up Your System10 minutes
Recap: Mathematical Notation10 minutes

3 assignmentsTotal 70 minutes

Supervised Learning & Regression10 minutes
Review: Supervised Learning30 minutes
Review: Regression30 minutes

2 discussion promptsTotal 20 minutes

What do you hope to get out of taking this course?10 minutes
What are some applicable uses of regression in the world today?10 minutes

This week, we will learn what features are in a dataset and how we can work with them through cleaning, manipulation, and analysis in Jupyter notebooks.

What's included

4 videos1 reading3 assignments

This week, we will learn about classification and several ways you can implement it, such as K-nearest neighbors, logistic regression, and support vector machines.

What's included

4 videos3 assignments1 discussion prompt

4 videosTotal 30 minutes

Supervised Learning: Classification5 minutesPreview module
Classification: Nearest Neighbors4 minutes
Classification: Logistic Regression10 minutes
Introduction to Support Vector Machines10 minutes

3 assignmentsTotal 45 minutes

Classification10 minutes
Review: Classification and K-Nearest Neighbors30 minutes
Review: Logistic Regression and Support Vector Machines5 minutes

1 discussion promptTotal 10 minutes

What are some applicable uses of classification in the world today?10 minutes

This week, we will learn the importance of properly training and testing a model. We will also implement gradient descent in both Python and TensorFlow.

What's included

5 videos3 assignments

In the final week of this course, you will continue building on the project from the first course of Python Data Products for Predictive Analytics with simple predictive machine learning algorithms. Find a dataset, clean it, and perform basic analyses on the data.