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Introduction To Data Science R

The document outlines an online certification course on Data Science and Machine Learning using R, structured over eight weeks. It covers topics such as data analytics, R programming fundamentals, statistics, data preparation, inferential statistics, predictive modeling, and machine learning techniques. The course includes hands-on videos and practical applications of various statistical and machine learning methods.

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Introduction To Data Science R

The document outlines an online certification course on Data Science and Machine Learning using R, structured over eight weeks. It covers topics such as data analytics, R programming fundamentals, statistics, data preparation, inferential statistics, predictive modeling, and machine learning techniques. The course includes hands-on videos and practical applications of various statistical and machine learning methods.

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CII – IIT Madras Online Certification Course

Introduction to Data Science / Machine Learning using R

Week -1 Introduction to data analytics and big data

• What is data science


• What is big data
• Why data analysis

R fundamentals

• Introduction to basics
of R/RStudio
• Opening, creating and
• Managing R/RStudio workspace
o Setting the working directory
o Creating files
o Writing scripts
o Executing R file
o Commenting
o Clearing the environment and console
o Saving the workspace

Week - 2 Basics of programming in R

• Naming conventions in R/RStudio


o Basic data types
o Predefined constants
• Vectors
• Lists
o Creating and manipulating list
o Concatenation of list
• Data frames
o Recasting and joining two data frames
o Arithmetic, logical & matrix operations
Introduction to functions and control structures in R

• Functions
o “apply” functions in R
• Control structures
o if-else-if family
o for loop
o Nested for loops
o for loop with” if break”
o while loop

Data visualization in R

• Basic graphics
o Scatter plot
o Line plot
o Bar plot

Data visualization using ggplot

Week - 3 Basics of Statistics

• Descriptive statistics
o Measures of central tendency
o Measures of spread
o Distribution of mean and variance
o Sampling basics
o Notion of probability

Week - 4 Data acquisition & Data Preparation

• Reading files
o Comma separated value files
o Tab-delimited files
o Excel files

• Data preparation
o Data quality- relevance, accuracy and completeness
o Handling missing values

Week - 5 Inferential Statistics

• Introduction to hypotheses testing


• Performance of hypotheses tests
• Test for mean (one sample)
• Test for differences in means (two sample test)
• Test for differences in variances (F test)
• Summary

Week – 6 & 7 Predictive Modelling

• Correlation
• Basics of regression
• Ordinary least squares
• Model building, model assessment and improvement
• Building confidence interval around regression coefficients
• Hypotheses testing on regression coefficients and models
• Diagnostics
• Multiple linear regression (model building and assessment)
• Cross validation
• Hands-on videos on simple and multiple linear regression

Week- 8 Machine Learning

• Classification
o Logistic regression
o Performance measures
assessment and improvement
o K nearest neighbours
• K means
• Hands-on videos on logistic regression, K nearest
neighbours and K means

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