The Analytics Edge

edx + MIT

Tools: RStudio & MO Excel

URL: https://www.edx.org/course/analytics-edge-mitx-15-071x-0

W01 - An Introduction to Analytics

• An Analytical Detective
• Demographics & Employment
• Internet Privacy Pooll
• Stocks & Dinamics
• Understanding Food
• Working With Data

W02 - Linear Regression

• Climate Change
• Detecting Flu
• Forecassting Sales
• Moneyball in the NBA
• Reading Test Scores
• State Data
• The Power of Sport Analytics
• The Statistical Sommelier

W03 - Logistic Regression

• Election Forecasting
• Framingham Study
• Modeling the Expert
• Popularity Music Records
• Predicting Loan Repayment
• Predicting Parole Violators

W04 - Trees

• Judge, Jury and Classifier: An Introduction to Tree
• Keeping an Eye on Health Care Cost: The D2Hawkeye Story
• Location, Location, Location: Regression Trees for Housing Data
• State Data Revisited
• Understanding Why People Vote
• Letter Recognition
• Predicting Earnings From Census Data
• State Data (Revisited)

W05 - Text Analytics

• Turning Tweets into Knowledge: An Introduction to Text Analytics
• Man vs Machine: How IB Built a Jeopardy Champion
• Predictive Coding: Bringing Text Analytics to the Courtroom
• Detecting Vandalism on Wikipedia
• Automating Reviews in Medicine
• Separating SPAM from HAM (Part 1)
• Separating SPAM from HAM (Part 2)

W06 - Clustering

• Recommendations Worth a MIllion: An Introduction to Clustering
• Predictive Diagnosis: Discovering Patterns for Disease Detection
• Seeing the Big Picture: Segmenting Images to Create Data
• Document Clustering With Daily Kos
• Market Segmentation for Airlines
• Predicting Stock Returns With Cluster-then-Predict

W07 - Visualization

• Visualizing the World: An Introduction to Visualization
• The Analytical Policeman: Visualization for Law Order
• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Visualization Recitation
• Election Forecasting Revisited
• Visualizing Network Data
• Visualizing Text Data Using Word Clouds
• Visualizing Attributes of Parole Violators

W08 - Linear Optimization

• Airline Revenue Management: An Introduction to Linear Optimization
• Radiation Therapy: An Application of Linear Optimization
• Google AdWords: Optimizing Online Advertising
• Investment Management Under Taxation
• Filatoi Riuniti
• Gasoline Blending
• Even' Star Organic Farm

W09 - Integer Optimization

• Sports Scheduling: An Introduction to Integer Optimization
• eHarmony: Maximizing the Probability of Love
• Operating Room Scheduling: making Hospitals Run Smoothly
• Selecting Profitable Hotel Sites
• Assigning Sales Regions at Pfizer Turkey
• Class Assignments in an Elementary School
• Even' Star Organic Farm Revisited
• Gerrymandering New Mexico

Final

• Forecasting Interest Rate Hikes by the US Federal Reserve
• Understanding Retail Consumers
• Patterns in Renewable Energy Generation
• Optimal Production Scheduling