Introduction to Data Analytics

Lecture: Course Overview

NPTEL MOOC
By
Prof. Nandan Sudarsanam, DoMS, IIT-M and
Prof. B. Ravindran, CS&E, IIT-M
 COURSE OVERVIEW
Welcome!
Course Information
Outline, Syllabus, Reference books, etc.
Forums
Questions on course style: Conceptual and application
heavy
Questions on Software/Programing:
Languages: R, Matlab, Excel
Not tutorial style
Level of programing
 Course Overview
Module List:
Descriptive Statistics
Inferential Statistics
ANOVA and Regression
Machine Learning: Introduction and Concepts
Supervised Learning 1 and 2
Unsupervised Learning
Creating Data
 Course Structure: Descriptive and
Inferential Statistics
Descriptive Statistics and Exploratory Data Analysis
Visualization
Summarizing data
Looking at Distributions and Relationships
Inferential Statistics
The idea of populations and samples
Average height of IIT students
Fluoride in Toothpaste
How do we use it to make inferences
Single sample case
Two or more samples
ANOVA
 Course Structure: Regression
Regression Analysis
Inference and more
Overlap with Machine Learning
Simple Linear regression
Relationship between Dependent (Output) variables and
Independent (Input) variables
Fitting a line to Data
Prediction
Examples: rainfall and crop yield, weight loss and exercise,
voltage to current, frequency to inductive impedance, speed to
mileage, etc.
Output variable
Dependant or

Independent or Input
Variable