Data Analysis Workshop


Workshop Schedule

Day 1
  • Introduction to probability: Discrete vs Continuous.
  • Funny things on probability.
  • Conditional Probability, Bayes Theorem, Law of total probability.
  • Probability Mass Function vs Probability Density Function.
  • Introduction to R programming language and running your programs on R Studio.
  • Numerical processing and working with messy data.
Day 2
  • Probability distribution: Poisson, Exponential, Normal
  • Using histograms to check data distribution
  • Exception handling and identification.
  • Lab Session on Distributions and exception handling.
Day 3
  • Introduction to WLLN and central limit theorem.
  • Importance of WLLN in the real world.
  • Hypothesis testing and Confidence Interval.
  • Practical exposure to WLLN and Central limit theorem and hypothesis testing.
Day 4
  • Introduction to regression: Linear regression, multivariate regression.
  • Importance of likelihood and parameter estimation of a linear regression model.
  • Error/Residual Analysis.
  • Lab session on regression and parameter estimation.
Day 5
  • Introduction to Dynamical systems and Markov chains.
  • Modelling real world applications as a Markov Chain.
  • Building a word prediction engine like Google.