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==== What is data ====
==== What is data ====
Quantative/qualitative.
==== What about Big Data ====
==== What about Big Data ====
==== Experimental Design ====
==== Experimental Design ====

Revision as of 15:32, 19 January 2015

Video Lectures

Week 1

Series Motivation

The Data Scientist's Toolbox

Getting Help

Finding Answers

Week 3

Types of Questions

Types of analysis

  • descriptive: describe the data, like census
  • exploratory: find relationships (not causation)
  • inferential: use a small sample to say something about a bigger population
  • predictive: use data on some object to predict values for another object (still not causation)
  • causal: find out what happens t one variable when you change another variable (very difficult)
  • mechanistic: understand the exact changes in variables that lead to changes in other variables (very difficult, next to impossible unless system is nearly deterministic)

What is data

Quantative/qualitative.

What about Big Data

Experimental Design

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