Big Data: How Data Analytics Is Transforming the World

Investigate the information revolution-which is changing everything from marketing to medical care-and learn how to put big data to use in your business and personal life.

• By This Professor
• 01: Data Analytics-What's the "Big" Idea?
• 02: Got Data? What Are You Wondering About?
• 03: A Mindset for Mastering the Data Deluge
• 04: Looking for Patterns-and Causes
• 05: Algorithms-Managing Complexity
• 06: The Cycle of Data Management
• 07: Getting Graphic and Seeing the Data
• 08: Preparing Data Is Training for Success
• 09: How New Statistics Transform Sports
• 10: Political Polls-How Weighted Averaging Wins
• 11: When Life Is (Almost) Linear-Regression
• 12: Training Computers to Think like Humans
• 13: Anomalies and Breaking Trends
• 14: Simulation-Beyond Data, Beyond Equations
• 15: Overfitting-Too Good to Be Truly Useful
• 16: Bracketology-The Math of March Madness
• 17: Quantifying Quality on the World Wide Web
• 18: Watching Words-Sentiment and Text Analysis
• 19: Data Compression and Recommendation Systems
• 20: Decision Trees-Jump-Start an Analysis
• 21: Clustering-The Many Ways to Create Groups
• 22: Degrees of Separation and Social Networks
• 23: Challenges of Privacy and Security
• 24: Getting Analytical about the Future