Welcome, I am Dr. Gaurav Dixit from Indian
Institute of Technology, Roorkee.
You would see me in the video lectures of
the course on business analytics and data
mining modeling using R part II.
This course and earlier course on business
analytics and data mining modeling are for
data scientist and analytics enthusiast, people
who look to data to find solutions to challenging
business problems.
Positions like business analyst, data analyst,
data scientist and data engineers are some
of the profiles which are offered by industry
in this area.
This course is particularly suitable for final
year B. Tech, M.Tech, and MBA students which
are looking to specialize in business analytics
and information systems area.
Analytics forms and forms with analytics vertical
prefer to employ such students in these roles.
The course is developed to provide you solid
and advanced foundation to be successful in
these roles.
The popular statistical and data mining software
platform are has been used in most part of
the course because of its popularity in industry
and academia.
The course provides you basic foundation in
business analytics and data mining modeling
process and then focuses on predictive analytics
in particular.
In this course, I planned to cover following
unsupervised learning techniques and time
series forecasting methods, association rules,
cluster analysis, time series analysis, regression
based forecasting methods and smoothing methods.
I hope that this course helps you in achieving
your dreams in data science arena and beyond.
Good luck.
