Duration
4 days
COURSE OBJECTIVES
This course is designed for professionals who aspire to learn an open source R tool for Analytics. Certified R Analytics Specialist covers the concept of Business Analytics and its strategic importance to any organization. You will understand how cutting-edge businesses use data to optimize marketing, maximize revenue, make operations efficient, and make hiring and management decisions so that you can apply these strategies to your own company or business. Participants will learn how to address business needs through the use of analytics, how some organizations have done it and what has been done to achieve them. Conducted interactively with case studies and real business problems, participants can also expect to learn the basic principles, concepts, techniques and tools used in business analytics. Also, covers different types of business analytics with real life use cases including descriptive analytics and predictive analytics.
JOB ROLES IN NICF / TARGETED AUDIENCE
- Data Analyst - Statistics and Mining
- Data Analyst - Text Analytics
- Operations Research Analyst
- Senior Data Analyst- Statistics and Mining
PRE-REQUISITES
Participants are preferred to have min. 2 years of experience in software development, business domain or data/business analysis.
PROGRAM STRUCTURE
This is a 4-day intensive training program with the following assessment components.
Component 1. Written Examination (MCQ)
Component 2. Project Work Component (PWC)
These components are individual based. Participants will need to obtain 70% in both the components in order to qualify for this certification. If the participant fails one of the components, they will not pass the course and have to re-take that particular failed component. If they fail both components, they will have to re-take the assessment.
COURSE OUTCOMES
- Understanding of Business Analytics and its impact in enterprises
- Understand the Data structures, operators and functions in R
- Learn the data loading and perform data analysis using an open source Business Analytical tool(R Analytical Tool)
- Perform data visualization using an open source Business Analytical tool(R Analytical Tool)
- Acquire knowledge on Data Mining with R
- Acquire knowledge on NoSQL databases
- Acquire knowledge on Big data analysis
COURSE STRUCTURE
Day
Session 1
(9:00 – 10:30)
Session 2
(11:00 – 12:30)
Session 3
(13:30 – 15:30)
Session 4
(16:00 – 17:00)
Day 1
Context Setting and
Introduction to
Business Analytics
Introduction to R
Data Structures,
Operators and
Functions in R
Data Structures,
Operators and
Functions in
R(Contd)
Day 2
Exploring and
Visualizing Data in R
NoSQL Database
with R for Data
Analysis
NoSQL Database
with R for Data
Analysis(Contd)
Big Data Analysis in
R
Day 3
Data Mining in R
Predictive Modelling
in R
Hands-on
with Data Mining Techniques
Day 4
R Applications
R Case Studies
Review & Discussion
Written Examination
COURSE OUTLINE
- Introduction to Business Analytics
- Types of Business Analytics
- Business Analytics tools
- What is R?
- Installation Procedure of R Cmdr. and RStudio interface.
- R Libraries
- Create and Execute R Scripts
- Installing a Packages
- Working with R Objects
- Obtain help while using R
- Vector
- Matrices
- Data Frames
- Lists
- Factors
- Types of Operators
- Built-in Functions
- Import Data into R
- Analyze and Visualize data in R
- Pie chart
- Bar plot
- Scatterplot
- Histogram
- Introduction to NoSQL Databases
- Types of NoSQL Databases
- CouchDB
- Cassandra
- MongoDB
- Installation of MongoDB
- Import data into MongoDB
- Install RMongo package
- Write R Script
- Perform Data Analysis
- RHadoop
- RStorm
- Introduction to Data Mining, Machine Learning.
- Clustering and its Application.
- Clustering Techniques.
- Introduction to Predictive Modelling.
- Linear Regression.
- Logistic Regression.
- Neural Networks
- Support Vector Machines
- K-nearest neighbor Classification
- Decision trees
- Medical Image Analysis
- Natural Language Processing
- Credit Risk Analysis
- Time series modeling and geospatial analysis
- Statistical Analysis
- R for Reporting
- R for Data Analysis
- R for flood forecasting
Hands-On
Participants will also be exposed to various software tools in the market for analytics and would be having hands on session on R analytical tool. The course would be ideal for professionals/executives to gain an insight on the analytics, how to align to the business vision and get the value out of it.
WRITTEN ASSESSMENT
As part of the written examination, each participant will be assessed individually on the last day of the training for their understanding of the subject matter and ability to evaluate, choose and apply them in specific context and also the ability to identify and manage risks. The assessment focuses on higher levels of learning in Bloom’s taxonomy: Application, Analysis, Synthesis and Evaluation. This written examination will primarily consist of 40 multiple choice questions spanning various aspects as covered in the program. It is an individual, competency-based assessment.
EXAM PREPARATION
The objective of the certification examination is to evaluate the knowledge and skills acquired by the participants during the course. The weightage in key topics of the course as follows:
- Introduction to Business Analytics [10%]
- Introduction to R [15%]
- Data Structures, Operators and Functions in R [10%]
- Exploring and Visualizing Data in R [10%]
- NoSQL Database with R for Data Analysis [10%]
- Big Data Analysis in R [10%]
- Data Mining in R [10%]
- Predictive Modelling in R [15%]
- R Applications [5%]
- R Case Studies [5%]
Tools Used:
- R
- MongoDB
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.