"It’s just narratively unsatisfying"
For Today
What This Course is Not About
What This Course is About
Immediate Aim: Learn how to perform data analysis
Long Term Aim: How to improve a business via data analytics
Prerequisites
Start
How to create a variable in Python
Start
How to create a variable in Python
Start
How to use language models to analyze data
End
Keys to Success
Homework (20 %)
Participation (5%)
Exams: Midterm & Final (25% each)
Final Project
Final Project (25%)
Examples
Why Business Analytics
Why Business Analytics (BA)?
How has Generative AI impacted this class?
Andrej Karpathy
Jensen Huang
Sal Khan
"The Two Sigma Opportunity: Using AI to Provide a One-to-One Tutor for Every Student and Teaching Assistant for Every Teacher"
Generative AI has enabled two key changes
(1) We can now work at the level of text
(2) We can more easily work across varying levels of abstraction*
Levels of Abstraction
Words/Text
Computer Memory
*Throughout the semester, we'll try to highlight this
Case Studies for Data Science Jobs
During this interview I’ll go over your qualifications, discuss the role in general and the specific research projects and spend 10-15 minutes on a case study. It will be high-level; I’ll introduce a problem and have you discuss your thought process and how you would proceed to solve the question. There won’t be any on-the-spot coding.
The Essence of Programming
(1) Data Storage
(2) Functions
my_list = [5, 10, 20]
def f(x):
return x**2
The Essence of Causal Inference
Local Variation of Treatement
The Curse of Dimensionality
The Essence of Statistics
(1) Defining some notion of similarity
(2)Averaging
print(2+3)
list(map(partial(model1, results1.params.values), 180))