Program Fees: SGD 2,100
Program Dates: December 2019; (5 days, 9 am - 5:30 pm daily. Register your interest, by filling in the form below, for further details).
Program Venue: Singapore, CBD
- Identifying and Framing the Analytical Problem: A proper quantitative analysis starts with recognizing a problem or decision and beginning to solve it. In decision analysis, this step is called framing.
- Working with Quantitative People: Speaking of quantitative analysts, it’s really important for managers & functional professionals to establish a close working relationship with them. While you have the understanding of the business problem; your “quant” has the understanding of how to gather data on and analyze it.
- Understanding Different Types of Data and Their Implications: These days, you’ll hear a lot about big data and how valuable it can be to your business. But most managers don’t really understand the difference between big and small data.
- Understanding Different Types of Analytics and Their Implications:. Predictive analytics use statistical models on data about the past to predict the future. Prescriptive analytics create recommendations for how workers can make decisions in their jobs.
- Exploring Internal and External Uses of Analytics: Managers & professionals need to be aware of the distinction between internal and external uses of analytics. While, historically, analytics were used almost exclusively to support internal decisions, presently, several companies are also using data and analytics to create new products and services.
- Putting Analytics to Work Yourself: ‘R’ is arguably the most widely used programming language for Analytics. A knowledge of ‘R’ programming equips a functional manager or executive to write programs for some of the analytics required for his or her functional area, without having to depend on the organization’s IT or data science team. This could include retrieving data from relevant internal & external datasets, managing and querying databases and developing algorithms which help to establish relationships between various datasets, leading to new functional & operational insights.
Faculty: Raja Mitra
Raja Mitra has significant operational & leadership experience in Operations, Marketing & Business Development, Project Mgmt. & Customer support for corps. like Bull, Olivetti, an IBM Subsidiary as well as for medium-sized enterprises & start-ups in APAC. His experience encompasses deploying Infocomm products & services in domains like Banking, Manufacturing & Distribution. Clients included HP, Oracle, Amex, State Bank of India, SMC Corp. & major publishing groups. In his leadership roles he had entered into partnerships with Microsoft & IBM ASEAN, on behalf of organisations he was working for. Raja has a Masters in Business Management from IIM, Calcutta and a Bachelors in Engineering (B.Tech.) from IIT Kharagpur.
| Faculty: Dr. Sudipta Das
Dr. Sudipta Das graduated in Electrical Engineering and has subsequently done his Ph.D. in the same discipline, after doing his post-graduation in Control Systems. He has several years of industry experience and is currently an Asst. Professor in the Department of Data Science for a private University, where, among various subjects, he has also been involved in teaching ‘R’ & Python. He has a number of published papers in the domains mentioned to his credit and is a visiting scientist at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), involved in the areas of Statistical Quality Control & Operations Research. His research interests include Data Analytics, Stochastic Systems and Real-time systems. |
Evolution of Analytics Big Data and Digital Technologies Types and Sources of Data -- Internal & External, Digital, Transactional, Survey, Data Lakes, Structured and Unstructured Data Data for decision making and as a source of competitive advantage Four V’s of data Introduction - Descriptive Analytics, Predictive Analytics & Prescriptive Analytics Data Visualization Central Tendencies - Mean, Median, Mode | Social Media Analytics Selection of appropriate methods Building effective Predictive Models Evaluating soundness, appropriateness & Validity of Models Interpretation & reporting results for Management. Case Study Prescriptive Analytics - Definitions Combining elements of Descriptive & Predictive Analytics Simulation Models Enterprise Optimization Use Cases |
Variability Standardizing Normal Distribution Sampling Distributions Descriptive Analytics examples & cases Predictive Analytics Definitions, Objectives Data Modelling, Data Mining Machine Learning Regression Analysis Decision Tree Methods Predictive Models – Classification vs. Prediction | Big Data -- Overview, Evolution, Applicability Big Data – Hierarchies and Software Tools Real Time Analytics Data Preparation - Time, Effort Quiz Case Study Group Project - Predictive Analytics Project Exposition Summing Up |
Core Programming Principles An Introduction to R Fundamentals of R Your first R session Arithmetic with R Tutorial Quiz |
Objects & Data Types Vectors and Matrices Data Frames Factors Lists Conditions & Loops Functions Tutorial Assignment |
The basics of Graphics Different plot types Plot customization Regression Technique using R Classification Technique using R Quiz Project |