00_intro_and_history.md

Section 00: Intro and History

Class Notes

• Introduction to Data Mining - chapter 1 notes
• Advanced Business Analytics - chapter 1 notes (available on Blackboard)
• Instructor notes
• More Thoughts on Data Mining

Required Reading

• A Very Short History of Data Science
• Introduction to Data Mining - chapter 1
• The Evolution of Analytics (see Blackboard electronic reserves too)

Sample Quiz

Quiz key

Example Data Sets

• Structured data
  • Analytical base table/'Tidy' data - UCI Adult data
  • Times series data - Historical stock data for DIJA 30 companies
  • Transactional data - State of Oklahoma credit card purchases
• Semi-structured data - Web visitor interest logs
• Unstructured data
  • Text data - Hillary Clinton's emails
  • Image data - CIFAR-10 data

Supplementary References

• Statistical Modeling: the Two Cultures
• Fifty Years of Data Science
• The Future of Data Analysis
• Data Science: An Action Plan for Expanding the Technical Areas of the Field of Statistics

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• H2O Algorithm Overview
• Quora answer for good machine learning references
• An Empirical Comparison of Supervised Learning Algorithms