Data Mining with Rattle

Description

Data Mining with Rattle is a unique course that instructs with respect to both the concepts of data mining, as well as to the "hands-on" use of a popular, contemporary data mining software tool, "Data Miner," also known as the 'Rattle' package in R software. Rattle is a popular GUI-based software tool which 'fits on top of' R software. The course focuses on life-cycle issues, processes, and tasks related to supporting a 'cradle-to-grave' data mining project. These include: data exploration and visualization; testing data for random variable family characteristics and distributional assumptions; transforming data by scale or by data type; performing cluster analyses; creating, analyzing and interpreting association rules; and creating and evaluating predictive models that may utilize: regression; generalized linear modeling (GLMs); decision trees; recursive partitioning; random forests; boosting; and/or support vector machine (SVM) paradigms. It is both a conceptual and a practical course as it teaches and instructs about data mining, and provides ample demonstrations of conducting data mining tasks using the Rattle R package. The course is ideal for undergraduate students seeking to master additional 'in-demand' analytical job skills to offer a prospective employer. The course is also suitable for graduate students seeking to learn a variety of techniques useful to analyze research data. Finally, the course is useful for practicing quantitative analysis professionals who seek to acquire and master a wider set of useful job skills and knowledge. The course topics are scheduled in 10 distinct topics, each of which should be the focus of study for a course participant in a separate week per section topic.

What You Will Learn!

• Perform and support life-cycle data mining tasks and activities using the popular Data Miner ("Rattle") software suite.
• Understand the functionalities implicit in the data, explore, test, transform, cluster, associate, model, evaluate, and log tabs in the Data Miner ("Rattle") GUI software platform.
• Know how to explore, visualize, transform, and summarize data sets in Rattle.
• Know how to create advanced, interactive Ggobi visualizations of data.
• Know how to use, estimate and interpret: cluster analyses; association analyses mining rules; decision trees; random forests; boosting; and support vector machines using Rattle.

Who Should Attend!

• Anyone interested in data mining seeking to master the use of a powerful popular contemporary (and no-cost) Data Mining software suite
• Data analytics professionals seeking to augment their data mining skill sets with a popular and useful data mining package.
• Undergraduate and graduate students seeking to attain in-demand data mining skills for data analysis/mining tasks to offer to prospective employers.

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