Data Analytics Essentials
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Skills / Knowledge
- Lambda functions and error-handling
- Using iterators in PythonLand
- Common data problems
- Text and categorical data problems
- Advanced data problems
- Regular expressions for pattern matching
- Advanced regular expression concepts
- Dates and times in pandas
- Multivariate thinking
- Graphical exploratory data analysis
- Quantitative exploratory data analysis
- Parameter estimation by optimisation
- Bootstrap confidence intervals
- Optimising a neural network with backward propagation
- Building deep learning models with Keras
- Fine-tuning Keras models
- The bias-variance trade-off
- Hierarchical clustering
- Clustering in real world