COMP 333 Introduction to Data Analytics

Summer 2020 Semester 1: Lectures

Lecture Schedule

Tentative, Work in Progress - very much subject to change.

READ the things marked READ.
The other material is supplementary to the lecture, if you need it. And some is still To-COME.

1. Tuesday 05 May 2020: Introduction
   Welcome READ
   Data Analytics in a Nutshell READ
   Course Outline READ
   Guide to COMP 333 READ
2. Thursday 07 May 2020: Examples
   Welcome READ
   Example 1 - Restaurant Tipping READ slides wikipedia
   Example 2 - OECD International Student Assessment READ video
   Example 3 - Titanic Survival READ article Jupyter notebook video
   Recap READ
3. Tuesday 12 May 2020: Descriptive Data Analysis
   Welcome READ
   scipy Descriptive Statistics READ article
   Types of Data READ article
   Basic Plotting READ article
   Descriptive Data Analysis READ slides
   Recap READ
4. Thursday 14 May 2020: Descriptive Data Analysis: Data
   Welcome READ
   Numerical Data READ slides slides
   Structured and Unstructured Data READ
   Metadata, Self-Descriptive Data, Data Formats READ
   pandas Dataframes READ slides notes
   Tidy Data READ article
   Recap READ
5. Tuesday 19 May 2020: Data Warehousing
   Welcome READ READ (Introduction to Data Warehousing, Chapter 1 of Data Warehouse Design: Modern Principles and Methodologies, 2009, by Matteo Golfarelli and Stefano Rizzi)
   Databases, Data Warehouses, Data Marts, Dashboards READ video
   ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) READ
   Data Cubes and OLAP READ
   Business Intelligence (BI) READ video-BI article-Walmart article-Walmart article-Amazon
   Recap READ
   Tuesday 19 May 2020 from 15:15 to 15:45: Timed Quiz Test-Run (Moodle)
6. Thursday 21 May 2020: Data Wrangling
   Welcome READ
   Data Wrangling Example READ video
   Data Wrangling Process READ
   Thursday 21 May 2020 from 15:15 to 15:45: Timed Quiz No.1 (Moodle) - DDA
7. Tuesday 26 May 2020: Data Wrangling: Data Cleaning
   Welcome READ
   Data Cleaning READ article
   Missing Values READ
   Unification READ
   Entity Resolution READ slides article
   OpenRefine Examples READ video 1 video 2 video 3
   Recap READ
8. Thursday 28 May 2020: Exploratory Data Analysis
   Welcome READ A Gentle Introduction to EDA
   EDA Process READ slides
   Principal Component Analysis (PCA) article
   Clustering article article
   Thursday 28 May 2020 from 15:15 to 15:45: Timed Quiz No.2 (Moodle) - Wrangling including Cleaning
9. Tuesday 02 June 2020: Exploratory Data Analysis
   Welcome READ
   Feature Engineering READ article video
   Models: Regression, Classification, Prediction, Simulation READ article video
   Regression article
   Classification article
   Prediction article
   Simulation article article
   Recap READ
10. Thursday 04 June 2020: Introduction to Machine Learning
    Welcome READ
    ML Example 1: Decision Tree READ article
    ML Example 2: Process and Evaluation READ article
    Machine Learning Introduction READ article
    Thursday 04 June 2020 from 15:15 to 15:45: Timed Quiz No.3 (Moodle) - EDA
11. Tuesday 09 June 2020: Introduction to Machine Learning
    Welcome READ
    Machine Learning Process READ article
    Some ML Algorithms READ article
    Guidelines cheatsheet cheatsheet
    Recap READ
12. Thursday 11 June 2020: Story Telling and Visualization
    Welcome READ
    Story Telling slides-READ article article video
    Visualization slides-READ article article video
    Thursday 11 June 2020 from 15:15 to 15:45: Timed Quiz No.4 (Moodle) - Week 1 to 11 inclusive
13. Tuesday 16 June 2020: Other
    Welcome READ
    Correlation is not Causation article article
    Confounding Variables article+video
    Threats to Validity article
    Deployment and Big Data Infrastructure article
    Recap READ article+video