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UTS Short Courses: Advanced Data Analytics – an Introduction

AAI15024
Data Analytics (DA) is the discipline of analysing raw data with the purpose of drawing conclusions about that information. Data Analytics is used in many industries to allow companies and organisations to make better business decisions and in the sciences to verify or disprove existing models or theories. This short course, as an entry to advanced data analytics series courses, which are planned by the Advanced Analytics Institute (AAI) this year. The short course will provide a landscape of data analytics, presenting the concepts, fundamental techniques, applications and some projects that have been conducted within AAI.
This program is particularly useful for
All those involved in BIG DATA for their organisation:

Students
Researchers
Academics
Industry Practitioners
Program topics:

Welcome and AAI Short Course Program briefing
Overview of Big Data and Advanced Data Analytics
Data Mining in Advanced Analytics
Data Science Innovations: Roadmap to Hadoop, Ecosystem & Spark (video/Skype presentation from Europe)
Text Analytics and Sentiment Analysis
Machine Learning
Marketing Analytics
Assessment, Feedback and Closing
Course outcomes:
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

Understand why advanced data analytics is essential to your business success
Understand the key terms and concepts used in advanced data analytics
Understand relations of big data, clouding computing and analytics
Be familiar with basic skills of statistics in data analytics, including descriptive analysis, regression, multivariate data analysis
Learning basic data mining and data warehousing, visualization and reporting, such as supervised vs unsupervised methods, clustering, association role and frequent mining and so on
Knowing key techniques in machine learning, such as Parametric and non-parametric models, learning and inference, Maximum-likelihood estimation, and Bayesian approaches and so on
Analyse survey data and ensure analytical results are representative of the market and Analytics Data Architecture
Roadmap to Hadoop, Ecosystem & Spark
Presenters

Colin Wise – Education Manager, Advanced Analytics Institute at University of Technology Sydney
Srinivas Varanasi – Program Manager, Information Architect and Certified Business Intelligence Professional, ACA, CPA(Bots), CBIP
Dr. Paul Kennedy – Head of School, Software, FEIT, UTS
Dr. Ingo Bentrott – Lecturer in Economics and the Marketing Discipline group in the UTS Business School at the University of Technology, Sydney
Shlomo Berkovsky – a Senior Researcher at the CSIRO Computational Informatics division
Professor Massimo Piccardi – Professor of Computer Systems with the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology at University of Technology, Sydney (UTS)
Dr. Suresh Sood – Adjunct Academic UTS and Global Consultant in Big Data and Advanced Analytics – driving innovative analytics integrating traditional business information sources with big social media data
Prerequisites: Pre-reading

Assessment within Short Course
Post Short Course follow up and engagement
Survey and feedback process
Online readings
Fees and Discounts
**Discount can be selected from the drop-down box on the Book Now page** Standard 1 day $800 (GST free)

UTS Alumni and staff – $720
2 or more from the one organisation – $680
Interstate participant – $600
Please select discount option with drop down box before entering your credit card details. Only 1 discount applicable per person.
Group bookings must be made individually with the 15% discount selected and credit card processed separately for each person.

Payment Options: To be invoiced – Please complete the Manual Enrolment on Invoice Request Form and email it to UTS:Short Courses
Credit Card – proceed to the ‘BOOK NOW’ button and follow the prompts

Further Information
Venue Map

Contact Information
For specific queries regarding course content, please contact Colin Wise, Advanced Analytics Institute Tel: +61 (02) 9514 9267 or email colin.wise@uts.edu.au with questions relating to this course.

https://shortcourses-bookings.uts.edu.au/ClientView/Course/FaceToFaceDetails/1684/AAI15024-Advanced-Data-Analytics-an-Introduction?S

When

7th December 2015 09:00 am
To 7th December 2015 05:00 pm

Where

UTS Short Courses Venue (AAI) - Seminar Room 2 CB.10.07.102
Building 10, Level 7, Room 102 235 Jones Street
Ultimo 2007