Keith McCormick

This course with instructor Keith McCormick provides an introduction to some advanced techniques in causal inference and causal modeling. It builds upon a foundation in Keith’s course, Machine Learning and AI Foundations: Prediction, Causality, and Statistical Inference. Keith focuses the course on three major topics: The power of experiments (and the reality that they aren't always available as an option); the Bayesian statistic philosophy and approach and when it's a good choice; and an… Show more

This course with instructor Keith McCormick provides an introduction to some advanced techniques in causal inference and causal modeling. It builds upon a foundation in Keith’s course, Machine Learning and AI Foundations: Prediction, Causality, and Statistical Inference. Keith focuses the course on three major topics: The power of experiments (and the reality that they aren't always available as an option); the Bayesian statistic philosophy and approach and when it's a good choice; and an introduction to causal modeling with techniques like structural equation modeling and Bayesian networks. Join Keith in this course to learn about these advanced techniques and what makes them both powerful and interesting. Show less

Ensembles involve groups of models working together to make more accurate predictions. When creating complete deployed solutions, data scientists may also leverage passing data from one model to another or using models in combination—also known as metamodeling. These techniques are dominant among winners of modeling competitions like Kaggle as well as leading data science teams around the world. In this advanced course, you can learn how to add ensembles and metamodeling to your toolset.

Building world-class predictive analytics solutions requires recognizing that the challenges of scale and sample size fluctuate greatly at different stages of a project. How do you know how much data to use? What is too little, what is too much? How does your infrastructure need to scale with the volume and demands of the project?

Having a solid understanding of linear regression—a method of modeling the relationship between one dependent variable and one to several other variables—can help you solve a multitude of real-world problems. Applications areas involve predicting virtually any numeric value including housing values, customer spend, and stock prices. This course reveals the concepts behind the most important linear regression techniques and how to use them effectively.

Unsupervised learning is a type of machine learning where algorithms parse unlabeled data. The focus is not on sorting data into known categories but uncovering hidden patterns. Unsupervised learning plays a big role in modern marketing segmentation, fraud detection, and market basket analysis. This course shows how to use leading machine-learning techniques—cluster analysis, anomaly detection, and association rules—to get accurate, meaningful results from big data.

With the help of this course, you'll follow the industry-standard data mining process, gaining new skills at each stage, from loading data to integrating results into everyday business practices. Get a handle on the most efficient ways of extracting data from your own sources, preparing it for exploration and modeling. You will be acquainted with the best methods for building models that will perform well in your workplace.

A proper predictive analytics and data-mining project can involve many people and many weeks. There are also many potential errors to avoid. A "big picture" perspective is necessary to keep the project on track. This course provides that perspective.

This video course consists of step-by-step software demonstrations geared to familiarize new users of IBM SPSS Statistics with this software.

If you're working towards an understanding of machine learning, it's important to know how to work with decision trees. In this course, explore advanced concepts and details of decision tree algorithms. Learn about the QUEST algorithm and how it handles nominal variables, ordinal and continuous variables, and missing data. Explore the C5.0 algorithm and review some of its key features such as global pruning and winnowing. Plus, dive into a few advanced topics that apply to all decision trees… Show more

If you're working towards an understanding of machine learning, it's important to know how to work with decision trees. In this course, explore advanced concepts and details of decision tree algorithms. Learn about the QUEST algorithm and how it handles nominal variables, ordinal and continuous variables, and missing data. Explore the C5.0 algorithm and review some of its key features such as global pruning and winnowing. Plus, dive into a few advanced topics that apply to all decision trees, such as boosting and bagging. Show less

Dive deeper into SPSS Statistics for more efficient, accurate, and sophisticated data analysis and visualization
SPSS Statistics for Data Analysis and Visualization goes beyond the basics of SPSS Statistics to show you advanced techniques that exploit the full capabilities of SPSS. The authors explain when and why to use each technique, and then walk you through the execution with a pragmatic, nuts and bolts example. Coverage includes extensive, in-depth discussion of advanced statistical… Show more

Dive deeper into SPSS Statistics for more efficient, accurate, and sophisticated data analysis and visualization
SPSS Statistics for Data Analysis and Visualization goes beyond the basics of SPSS Statistics to show you advanced techniques that exploit the full capabilities of SPSS. The authors explain when and why to use each technique, and then walk you through the execution with a pragmatic, nuts and bolts example. Coverage includes extensive, in-depth discussion of advanced statistical techniques, data visualization, predictive analytics, and SPSS programming, including automation and integration with other languages like R and Python. You'll learn the best methods to power through an analysis, with more efficient, elegant, and accurate code. Show less

Many data science specialists are looking to pivot toward focusing on machine learning. This course covers the essentials of machine learning, including predictive analytics and working with decision trees. Explore several popular tree algorithms and learn how to use reverse engineering to identify specific variables. Demonstrations of using the IBM SPSS Modeler are included so you can understand how decisions trees work. This course is designed to give you a solid foundation on which to build… Show more

Many data science specialists are looking to pivot toward focusing on machine learning. This course covers the essentials of machine learning, including predictive analytics and working with decision trees. Explore several popular tree algorithms and learn how to use reverse engineering to identify specific variables. Demonstrations of using the IBM SPSS Modeler are included so you can understand how decisions trees work. This course is designed to give you a solid foundation on which to build more advanced data science skills. Show less

This book takes a detailed, step-by-step approach to introducing data mining using the de facto standard process, CRISP-DM, and Modeler’s easy to learn “visual programming” style. You will learn how to read data into Modeler, assess data quality, prepare your data for modeling, find interesting patterns and relationships within your data, and export your predictions. Using a single case study throughout, this intentionally short and focused book sticks to the essentials. The authors have drawn… Show more

This book takes a detailed, step-by-step approach to introducing data mining using the de facto standard process, CRISP-DM, and Modeler’s easy to learn “visual programming” style. You will learn how to read data into Modeler, assess data quality, prepare your data for modeling, find interesting patterns and relationships within your data, and export your predictions. Using a single case study throughout, this intentionally short and focused book sticks to the essentials. The authors have drawn upon their decades of teaching thousands of new users, to choose those aspects of Modeler that you should learn first, so that you get off to a good start using proven best practices. Show less

Brand new edition. Lots of exciting new content including a complete update for SPSS Statistics Version 23.

In this book chapter, appearing in Integration of Data Mining in Business Intelligence Systems, we propose an approach that centralizes the forecasting activity using Predictive Analytics, but preserves the wide distribution of the resulting forecast using Business Intelligence technology.

IBM SPSS Modeler is a data mining workbench that enables you to explore data, identify important relationships that you can leverage, and build predictive models quickly allowing your organization to base its decisions on hard data not hunches or guesswork.

IBM SPSS Modeler Cookbook takes you beyond the basics and shares the tips, the timesavers, and the workarounds that experts use to increase productivity and extract maximum value from data. The authors of this book are among the very… Show more

IBM SPSS Modeler is a data mining workbench that enables you to explore data, identify important relationships that you can leverage, and build predictive models quickly allowing your organization to base its decisions on hard data not hunches or guesswork.

IBM SPSS Modeler Cookbook takes you beyond the basics and shares the tips, the timesavers, and the workarounds that experts use to increase productivity and extract maximum value from data. The authors of this book are among the very best of these exponents, gurus who, in their brilliant and imaginative use of the tool, have pushed back the boundaries of applied analytics. By reading this book, you are learning from practitioners who have helped define the state of the art.

Follow the industry standard data mining process, gaining new skills at each stage, from loading data to integrating results into everyday business practices. Get a handle on the most efficient ways of extracting data from your own sources, preparing it for exploration and modeling. Master the best methods for building models that will perform well in the workplace.

Go beyond the basics and get the full power of your data mining workbench with this practical guide. Show less