112045 Data Science

Course offering details

Instructors: Jun. Prof. Dr. Rouven E. Haschka

Event type: Seminar / exercise

Org-unit: Corporate Management & Economics

Displayed in timetable as: Data Science

Hours per week: 3

Credits: 6,0

Location: Campus der Zeppelin Universität

Language of instruction: Englisch

Min. | Max. participants: 10 | 35

Priority scheme: Standard-Priorisierung

Course content:
    Introduction to Data Science
        Overview of Descriptive, Prescriptive, and Predictive Analytics
        Review of R Programming: Basic concepts, functions, and applications
        Fundamental Probability Concepts
        Data Structures: Qualitative, Quantitative, Time Series, Panel, Cross-sectional
 
    Data Acquisition, Preprocessing, and Exploratory Data Analysis
        Data Mining Techniques
        Webscraping Fundamentals
        Relational Databases: Basics and Applications
        Summarising data, Handling Missing Observations and Outliers
        Data Visualization Methods
 
    Classification
        Logistic Regression
        Discriminant Analysis
        Kernel-based Methods
        k-Nearest Neighbors
        Tree-based Methods
        Support Vector Machines
 
    Resampling Methods
        Cross-Validation
        Bootstrap Techniques
 
    Dimensionality Reduction and Regularization
        Principal Component Analysis (PCA)
        Partial Least Squares (PLS)
        Ridge and Lasso Regression

Educational objective:
Upon completing this course, students will gain proficiency in:
    Foundations of Data Science, Business Analytics, and Statistical Learning
    Data Management
    Statistical Analyses
    Machine Learning Techniques
    Data Visualization
    Ethical and Privacy Considerations
Additionally, students will develop the following competencies:
    Critical Thinking: Ability to analyze and evaluate information critically.
    Teamwork and Communication: Skills for collaboration and communication in a team setting.
    Application Readiness: Practical application of data science techniques to real-world scenarios.
    Ethics and Responsibility: Understanding and practicing ethical considerations in data science.

Further information about the exams:
Midterm: 25%, Endterm: 75%

Mandatory literature:
Data Science for Business: What You Need to Know about Data Mining and Data-Analytic Thinking, by Foster Provost, and Tom Fawcett (2017).
Data Science Fundamentals and Practical Approaches: Understand Why Data Science Is the Next, by Gypsy Nandi, and Rupam Kumar Sharma (2020).
Data Science: Theory, Analysis and Applications, by Qurban A Memon, and Shakeel Ahmed Khoja (2019).
Data Science for Beginners: An Introduction to the Fundamentals of Data Analysis and Machine Learning, by Brian Murray (2023).
An Introduction to Statistical Learning: with Applications in R, by Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie, and Robert Tibshirani (2021).
Practical Data Science with R, by Nina Zumel and John Mount (2019).
R for Data Science: Import, Tidy, Transform, Visualize, and Model Data, by Hadley Wickham and Mine Cetinkaya-rundel and Garrett Grolemund (2023)
Practical Statistics for Data Scientists: 50+ Essential Concepts Using R and Python by Andrew Bruce and Peter Bruce and Peter Gedeck (2020).

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Appointments
Date From To Room Instructors
1 Mon, 4. Mar. 2024 10:00 12:30 Fab 3 | 1.05 Jun. Prof. Dr. Rouven E. Haschka
2 Mon, 4. Mar. 2024 13:30 16:00 Fab 3 | 1.05 Jun. Prof. Dr. Rouven E. Haschka
3 Mon, 11. Mar. 2024 10:00 12:30 Fab 3 | 1.05 Jun. Prof. Dr. Rouven E. Haschka
4 Mon, 11. Mar. 2024 13:30 16:00 Fab 3 | 1.05 Jun. Prof. Dr. Rouven E. Haschka
5 Mon, 18. Mar. 2024 10:00 12:30 Fab 3 | 1.05 Jun. Prof. Dr. Rouven E. Haschka
6 Mon, 18. Mar. 2024 13:30 16:00 Fab 3 | 1.05 Jun. Prof. Dr. Rouven E. Haschka
7 Mon, 8. Apr. 2024 10:00 12:30 Fab 3 | 1.05 Jun. Prof. Dr. Rouven E. Haschka
8 Mon, 8. Apr. 2024 13:30 16:00 Fab 3 | 1.05 Jun. Prof. Dr. Rouven E. Haschka
9 Mon, 15. Apr. 2024 10:00 12:30 Fab 3 | 1.05 Jun. Prof. Dr. Rouven E. Haschka
10 Mon, 22. Apr. 2024 10:00 12:30 Fab 3 | 1.05 Jun. Prof. Dr. Rouven E. Haschka
11 Mon, 29. Apr. 2024 10:00 12:30 Fab 3 | 1.05 Jun. Prof. Dr. Rouven E. Haschka
12 Fri, 10. May 2024 10:00 17:00 Fab 3 | 1.05 Jun. Prof. Dr. Rouven E. Haschka
Course specific exams
Description Date Instructors Compulsory pass
1. Midterm + Endterm Time tbd No
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Instructors
Jun. Prof. Dr. Rouven E. Haschka