
Explore ten essential data science projects for businesses, from customer lifetime value and best customers to forecasting, segmentation, and fraud detection, with practical analytics and nlp applications.
Deep learning accelerates the data science revolution by learning complex non-linear patterns from large data sets, powering computer vision, NLP, lip reading, and advanced recommendation systems.
Explore pandas, a powerful Python library for high-performance data manipulation and analysis. Learn to work with data frames, derive ages, group subjects, and compute averages for insights.
Learn how to perform feature engineering in pandas by creating a new 'family size' feature from two columns using a simple function, apply, and lambda, illustrated with the Titanic dataset.
Learn to concatenate, merge, append, and join dataframes in pandas using concat and various joins (left, right, inner, full outer) to align data by keys.
Explore advanced pandas operations for efficient haversine distance calculations, moving from iterrows to vectorization with numpy and apply, and profile performance using timeit and line profiler.
Explore choropleth maps with Plotly, using US and world data via FIPS codes, color scales, and interactive visualizations of unemployment, life expectancy, exports, and GDP.
Learn how statistics—from descriptive statistics to modeling—empowers data analysts and data scientists to forecast outcomes, assess risk, and drive business decisions.
Explore descriptive statistics to summarize data and reveal patterns, and apply exploratory data analysis with visualizations to check data quality and avoid skewed averages.
Explore exploratory data analysis and visualizations using Python, pandas, and seaborn to analyze the wine quality dataset with histograms, box plots, violin plots, and scatter plots.
Examine how sampling, averages, and variance reveal lies with statistics across small polls and biased samples, and how to determine appropriate sample sizes to infer a larger population.
Explore frequency distributions using a wine dataset to distinguish good and bad wines by threshold, compare white and red wines, identify outliers with box plots and interquartile range.
Explore variance and standard deviation as measures of data spread, compare with range and mean absolute distance, and apply bessel's correction and coefficient of variation to real datasets.
Explore covariance and correlation and how normalization clarifies relationships between variables. See practical visuals with Pandas and Seaborn, including heatmaps and pair plots, using wine and iris datasets.
Explore Z scores, standard deviations, and percentiles using wine data; learn Z transform, normalization to a zero-mean distribution, and percentile interpretation with practical Python examples.
Learn how Pearson correlation measures the linear relationship between two variables, perform hypothesis testing with alpha and critical R, and interpret whether age relates to income.
Demonstrate polynomial regression for nonlinear data by expanding features to higher orders and fitting with linear regression in Python; then apply multivariate regression with multiple inputs to predict mpg.
Learn how logistic regression extends linear models to binary and multi-class classification using a sigmoid function, decision boundaries, and gradient-based optimization with practical Python examples.
Explore support vector machines, maximizing the margin to define the optimal hyperplane that separates classes, with support vectors shaping the boundary and the kernel trick for non-linear data.
Explore decision trees and random forests, from root node splits and Gini impurity to multiclass leaves, and learn how bagging and majority vote enable classification.
Explore the k-nearest neighbors algorithm, a lazy, nonparametric classifier that classifies by distance-based voting among training points, and learn how k, distance metrics, normalization, and high-dimensional data affect performance.
Explore how neural networks act as black boxes that learn complex mappings for classification. See examples with bird traits and handwritten digits, and how hidden layers convert inputs to outputs.
Explore neural networks with a high-level, math-light approach, explaining backpropagation, gradient descent, loss and activation functions, and how inputs flow through weights and hidden layers to outputs.
Explore how neural networks forward propagate inputs through weighted connections and biases to produce outputs. Learn how the bias trick simplifies these calculations and why this underpins activation functions.
Clarify epochs, iterations, and batch sizes in neural network training. An epoch runs over the full data, iterations are batches per epoch, and batch size balances memory with learning efficiency.
Welcome to the course on Data Science & Deep Learning for Business™ 20 Case Studies!
This course teaches you how Data Science & Deep Learning can be used to solve real-world business problems and how you can apply these techniques to 20 real-world case studies.
Traditional Businesses are hiring Data Scientists in droves, and knowledge of how to apply these techniques in solving their problems will prove to be one of the most valuable skills in the next decade!
What student reviews of this course are saying,
"I'm only half way through this course, but i have to say WOW. It's so far, a lot better than my Business Analytics MSc I took at UCL. The content is explained better, it's broken down so simply. Some of the Statistical Theory and ML theory lessons are perhaps the best on the internet! 6 stars out of 5!"
"It is pretty different in format, from others. The appraoch taken here is an end-to-end hands-on project execution, while introducing the concepts. A learner with some prior knowledge will definitely feel at home and get to witness the thought process that happens, while executing a real-time project. The case studies cover most of the domains, that are frequently asked by companies. So it's pretty good and unique, from what i have seen so far. Overall Great learning and great content."
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"Data Scientist has become the top job in the US for the last 4 years running!" according to Harvard Business Review & Glassdoor.
However, Data Science has a difficult learning curve - How does one even get started in this industry awash with mystique, confusion, impossible-looking mathematics, and code? Even if you get your feet wet, applying your newfound Data Science knowledge to a real-world problem is even more confusing.
This course seeks to fill all those gaps in knowledge that scare off beginners and simultaneously apply your knowledge of Data Science and Deep Learning to real-world business problems.
This course has a comprehensive syllabus that tackles all the major components of Data Science knowledge.
Our Learning path includes:
How Data Science and Solve Many Common Business Problems
The Modern Tools of a Data Scientist - Python, Pandas, Scikit-learn, Seaborn, Matplotlib & Plotly (Manipulate Data and Create Information Captivating Visualizations and Plots).
Statistics for Data Science in Detail - Sampling, Distributions, Normal Distribution, Descriptive Statistics, Correlation and Covariance, Probability Significance Testing and Hypothesis Testing.
Machine Learning Theory - Linear Regressions, Logistic Regressions, Decision Trees, Random Forests, KNN, SVMs, Model Assessment, Outlier Detection, ROC & AUC and Regularization
Deep Learning Theory and Tools - TensorFlow 2.0 and Keras (Neural Nets, CNNs, RNNs & LSTMs)
Solving problems using Predictive Modeling, Classification, and Deep Learning
Data Science in Marketing - Modeling Engagement Rates and perform A/B Testing
Data Science in Retail - Customer Segmentation, Lifetime Value, and Customer/Product Analytics
Unsupervised Learning - K-Means Clustering, PCA, t-SNE, Agglomerative Hierarchical, Mean Shift, DBSCAN and E-M GMM Clustering
Recommendation Systems - Collaborative Filtering and Content-based filtering + Learn to use LiteFM
Natural Language Processing - Bag of Words, Lemmatizing/Stemming, TF-IDF Vectorizer, and Word2Vec
Big Data with PySpark - Challenges in Big Data, Hadoop, MapReduce, Spark, PySpark, RDD, Transformations, Actions, Lineage Graphs & Jobs, Data Cleaning and Manipulation, Machine Learning in PySpark (MLLib)
Deployment to the Cloud using AWS to build a Machine Learning API
Our fun and engaging 20 Case Studies include:
Six (6) Predictive Modeling & Classifiers Case Studies:
Figuring Out Which Employees May Quit (Retention Analysis)
Figuring Out Which Customers May Leave (Churn Analysis)
Who do we target for Donations?
Predicting Insurance Premiums
Predicting Airbnb Prices
Detecting Credit Card Fraud
Four (4) Data Science in Marketing Case Studies:
Analyzing Conversion Rates of Marketing Campaigns
Predicting Engagement - What drives ad performance?
A/B Testing (Optimizing Ads)
Who are Your Best Customers? & Customer Lifetime Values (CLV)
Four (4) Retail Data Science Case Studies:
Product Analytics (Exploratory Data Analysis Techniques
Clustering Customer Data from Travel Agency
Product Recommendation Systems - Ecommerce Store Items
Movie Recommendation System using LiteFM
Two (2) Time-Series Forecasting Case Studies:
Sales Forecasting for a Store
Stock Trading using Re-Enforcement Learning
Three (3) Natural Langauge Processing (NLP) Case Studies:
Summarizing Reviews
Detecting Sentiment in text
Spam Filters
One (1) PySpark Big Data Case Studies:
News Headline Classification
“Big data is at the foundation of all the megatrends that are happening.”
Businesses NEED Data Scientists more than ever. Those who ignore this trend will be left behind by their competition. In fact, the majority of new Data Science jobs won't be created by traditional tech companies (Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, etc.) they're being created by your traditional non-tech businesses. The big retailers, banks, marketing companies, government institutions, insurances, real estate and more.
"Consumer data will be the biggest differentiator in the next two to three years. Whoever unlocks the reams of data and uses it strategically will win.”
With Data Scientist salaries creeping up higher and higher, this course seeks to take you from a beginner and turn you into a Data Scientist capable of solving challenging real-world problems.
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Data Scientist is the buzz of the 21st century for good reason! The tech revolution is just starting and Data Science is at the forefront. Get a head start applying these techniques to all types of Businesses by taking this course!