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Program Overview
This Kelley School of Business Executive Education Digital Badge Program will introduce students to a variety of analytics techniques and software tools. The course begins with the basic of problem definition and data preparation, including strategies for missing values, outliers, and skewed distributions. Next, students will learn to identify appropriate analytical techniques based on data structure and problem definition. Techniques studied include linear regression, logistic regression, discriminant analysis, principle component analysis, cluster analysis and neural networks. These will be covered using a variety of software including Excel and R. At the conclusion of the course, students will be able to construct, validate and interpret data mining and predictive analytics models using large data sets, and apply these techniques to marketing, finance, and operations problems. Students will completely weekly quizzes to demonstrate mastery of the subject matter that will qualify for the badge.
Upon completion of the program, students will receive one digital badge to share on their resume, LinkedIn profile, and other sites.
Topics Include
Introduction to Data and Predictive Analytics
Introduction to R and R Studio
Prepping Data for Analysis
Data Visualization
Linear Regression Models
Logistic Regression Models
PCA, Factor Analysis and Cluster Analysis
Neural Networks and K-nearest Neighbors
Discount pricing is available for companies sending three or more participants as well as Kelley School and IU alumni & staff. Contact Laura Nicholson (laurnich@indiana.edu) for related discount codes to apply at check out.
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