NUS SOC Summer Workshop 2019
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Predictive Analytics
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Year 2 Topic
With the increased adoption of digital solutions, huge amount of data is generated. Apart from appreciating the data, organizations can go one step further to generate predictive models which can be used for predicting future data.
Predictive analytics uses an assortment of statistical techniques to predict future events or behaviors based on collected data. This workshop introduces major techniques such as regression, classification, clustering among others for doing predictive analytics. Students will be taught theoretical foundations of these algorithms and get to apply these concepts using various tools such as R.
Predictive analytics uses an assortment of statistical techniques to predict future events or behaviors based on collected data. This workshop introduces major techniques such as regression, classification, clustering among others for doing predictive analytics. Students will be taught theoretical foundations of these algorithms and get to apply these concepts using various tools such as R.
Students interested in this workshop should have basic knowledge of statistics/probability. Knowledge in programming will be beneficial, however knowledge in R is not required.
About Lecturer
Professor Lek Hsiang Hui
Prof Lek received his B.Sc (Hons 1st) and Ph.D from the National University of Singapore in 2008 and 2013 respectively. He started teaching when he was an undergraduate and has taught for more than a decade. During this period, he has won a number of teaching awards such as NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award (2015/16 and 2016/17), Faculty Teaching Excellence Award (2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17), and Faculty Teaching Excellence Award Honor Roll (2017/18). Apart from teaching, he has also co-founded a few companies, with the recent one in the area of Big Data Analytics.
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