Data Analytics III-i
Data Analytics III-i
DATA ANALYTICS
COURSE FILE
B.Tech (CSE,IT & CSE(NW)) III Year – I
SemesterR18 Regulation
Dr. M. Jaganathan
Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
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Course Objectives:
• To explore the fundamental concepts of data analytics.
• To learn the principles and methods of statistical analysis
• Discover interesting patterns, analyze supervised and unsupervised models and estimate theaccuracy
of the algorithms.
• To understand the various search methods and visualization techniques.
UNIT - I
Data Management: Design Data Architecture and manage the data for analysis, understand various
sources of Data like Sensors/Signals/GPS etc. Data Management, Data Quality(noise, outliers, missing
values, duplicate data) and Data Processing & Processing.
UNIT - II
Data Analytics: Introduction to Analytics, Introduction to Tools and Environment, Application of
Modeling in Business, Databases & Types of Data and variables, Data Modeling Techniques, Missing
Imputationsetc. Need for Business Modeling.
UNIT - III
Regression – Concepts, Blue property assumptions, Least Square Estimation, Variable Rationalization,
and Model Building etc.
Logistic Regression: Model Theory, Model fit Statistics, Model Construction, Analytics applications
to various Business Domains etc.
UNIT - IV
Object Segmentation: Regression Vs Segmentation – Supervised and Unsupervised Learning, Tree
Building – Regression, Classification, Overfitting, Pruning and Complexity, Multiple Decision Trees
etc. Time Series Methods: Arima, Measures of Forecast Accuracy, STL approach, Extract features
from generated model as Height, Average Energy etc and Analyze for prediction
UNIT - V
Data Visualization: Pixel-Oriented Visualization Techniques, Geometric Projection Visualization
Techniques, Icon-Based Visualization Techniques, Hierarchical Visualization Techniques,
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TEXT BOOKS:
1. Student’s Handbook for Associate Analytics – II, III.
2. Data Mining Concepts and Techniques, Han, Kamber, 3rd Edition, Morgan KaufmannPublishers.
REFERENCE BOOKS:
1. Introduction to Data Mining, Tan, Steinbach and Kumar, Addision Wisley, 2006.
2. Data Mining Analysis and Concepts, M. Zaki and W. Meira
3. Mining of Massive Datasets, Jure Leskovec Stanford Univ. Anand Rajaraman Milliway LabsJeffrey
D Ullman Stanford Univ.
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Data Analytics
Big data is a field that treats ways to analyze, systematically extract information from, or
otherwise deal with data sets that are too large or complex to be dealt with by traditional
data-processing application software.
• Volume
• Variety
• Velocity
• Veracity
The volume of data refers to the size of the data sets that need to be analyzed and processed,
which are now frequently larger than terabytes and petabytes. The sheer volume of the data
requires distinct and different processing technologies than traditional storage and processing
capabilities. In other words, this means that the data sets in Big Data are too large to process
with a regular laptop or desktop processor. An example of a high-volume data set would be
all credit card transactions on a day within Europe.
Velocity refers to the speed with which data is generated. High velocity data is generated
with such a pace that it requires distinct (distributed) processing techniques. An example of a
data that is generated with high velocity would be Twitter messages or Facebook posts.
Variety makes Big Data really big. Big Data comes from a great variety of sources and
generally is one out of three types: structured, semi structured and unstructured data. The
variety in data types frequently requires distinct processing capabilities and specialist
algorithms. An example of high variety data sets would be the CCTV audio and video files
that are generated at various locations in a city.
Veracity refers to the quality of the data that is being analyzed. High veracity data has many
records that are valuable to analyze and that contribute in a meaningful way to the overall
results. Low veracity data, on the other hand, contains a high percentage of meaningless data.
The non-valuable in these data sets is referred to as noise. An example of a high veracity data
set would be data from a medical experiment or trial.
Data that is high volume, high velocity and high variety must be processed with advanced
tools (analytics and algorithms) to reveal meaningful information. Because of these
characteristics of the data, the knowledge domain that deals with the storage, processing, and
analysis of these data sets has been labeled Big Data.
FORMS OF DATA
– STRUCTURED FORM
– UNSTRUCTURED FORM.
• Any form of data that does not have predefined structure is represented as
unstructured form of data. Eg: video, images, comments, posts, few
websites such as blogs and wikipedia
SOURCES OF DATA
DATA ANALYSIS
Data analysis is a process of inspecting, cleansing, transforming and modeling data with
the goal of discovering useful information, informing conclusions and supporting decision-
making.
DATA ANALYTICS
• Data analytics is the science of analyzing raw data in order to make conclusions about
that information ...... This information can then be used to optimize processes to increase
the overall efficiency of a business or system.
Types:
In descriptive statistics the result is always going lead with probability among ‘n’
number of options where each option has an equal chance of probability.
– Predictive analytics Eg: healthcare, sports, weather, insurance, social media analysis.
This type of analytics deals with predicting past data to make decisions based on
certain algorithms. In case of a doctor the doctor questions the patient about the
past to correct his illness through already existing procedures.
Prescriptive analytics works with predictive analytics, which uses data to determine
near-term outcomes. Prescriptive analytics makes use of machine learning to help
businesses decide a course of action based on a computer program's predictions.
Fig 0.1Relation between Social Media, Data Analysis and Big Data
Social media data are used in number of domains such as health and political trending
and forecasting, hobbies, ebusiness,cyber-crime, counter terrorism, time-evolving opinion
mining, social net-work analysis, and human machineinteractions.
Finally, summarizing all the above concepts processing for social media data can be
categorized into 3 parts as shown infigure 0.1. The first part consists of social media
websites, the second part consists of data analysis part and the thirdpart consists of big data
management layer and schedules the jobs across the cluster.
Prediction Analytics means we are trying to Analysis means we analyze always what
find conclusions about future. has happened in the past
MACHINE LEARNING
Analytics
In general data is passed to a machine learning tool to perform descriptive data analytics
through set of algorithms built in it. Here both data analytics and data analysis is done by the
tool automatically. Hence we can say that Data analysis is a sub component of data analytics.
And data analytics is a sub component of machine learning tool. All these are described in
figure 0.2. The output of this machine learning tool generates a model. And from this model
predictive analytics and prescriptive analytics can be performed because the model gives
output as data to machine learning tool. This cycle continues till we get an efficient output.
UNIT - I
1.1 DESIGN DATA ARCHITECTURE AND MANAGE THE DATA FOR ANALYSIS
Data architecture is composed of models, policies, rules or standards that govern which
data is collected, and how it is stored, arranged, integrated, and put to use in data systems
and in organizations. Data is usually one of several architecture domains that form the
pillars of an enterprise architecture or solution architecture.
Various constraints and influences will have an effect on data architecture design. These
include enterprise requirements, technology drivers, economics, business policies and data
processing needs.
• Enterpriserequirements
These will generally include such elements as economical and effective system
expansion, acceptable performance levels (especially system access speed), transaction
reliability, and transparent data management. In addition, the conversion of raw data such as
transaction records and image files into more useful information forms through such
features as data warehouses is also a common organizational requirement, since this enables
managerial decision making and other organizational processes. One of the architecture
techniques is the split between managing transaction data and (master) reference data.
Another one is splitting data capture systems from data retrieval systems (as done in a
datawarehouse).
• Technologydrivers
These are usually suggested by the completed data architecture and database
architecture designs. In addition, some technology drivers will derive from existing
organizational integration frameworks and standards, organizational economics, and
existing site resources (e.g. previously purchased software licensing).
• Economics
These are also important factors that must be considered during the data architecture phase.
It is possible that some solutions, while optimal in principle, may not be potential
candidates due to their cost. External factors such as the business cycle, interest rates,
market conditions, and legal considerations could all have an effect on decisions relevant to
data architecture.
• Businesspolicies
Business policies that also drive data architecture design include internal organizational
policies, rules of regulatory bodies, professional standards, and applicable governmental
laws that can vary by applicable agency. These policies and rules will help describe the
manner in which enterprise wishes to process their data.
• Data processingneeds
These include accurate and reproducible transactions performed in high volumes, data
warehousing for the support of management information systems (and potential data
mining), repetitive periodic reporting, ad hoc reporting, and support of various
organizational initiatives as required (i.e. annual budgets, new productdevelopment).
The logical view/user's view, of a data analytics represents data in a format that is
meaningful to a user and to the programs that process those data. That is, the logical
view tells the user, in user terms, what is in the database. Logical level consists of data
requirements and process models which are processed using any data modelling techniques to
result in logical data model.
Physical level is created when we translate the top level design in physical tables in
the database. This model is created by the database architect, software architects, software
developers or database administrator. The input to this level from logical level and various
data modeling techniques are used here with input from software developers or database
administrator. These data modelling techniques are various formats of representation of data
such as relational data model, network model, hierarchical model, object oriented model,
Entity relationship model.
Implementation level contains details about modification and presentation of data through
the use of various data mining tools such as (R-studio, WEKA, Orange etc). Here each tool
has a specific feature how it works and different representation of viewing the same data.
These tools are very helpful to the user since it is user friendly and it does not require much
programming knowledge from the user.
Observation Method:
we need to clearly differentiate our own observations from the observations provided to us by
other people. The range of data storage genre found in Archives and Collections, is suitable
for documenting observations e.g. audio, visual, textual and digital including sub-genres
of note taking, audio recording and video recording.
There exist various observation practices, and our role as an observer may vary
according to the research approach. We make observations from either the outsider or insider
point of view in relation to the researched phenomenon and the observation technique can be
structured or unstructured. The degree of the outsider or insider points of view can be seen as
a movable point in a continuum between the extremes of outsider and insider. If you decide
to take the insider point of view, you will be a participant observer in situ and actively
participate in the observed situation or community. The activity of a Participant observer in
situ is called field work. This observation technique has traditionally belonged to the data
collection methods of ethnology and anthropology. If you decide to take the outsider point of
view, you try to try to distance yourself from your own cultural ties and observe the
researched community as an outsider observer. These details are seen in figure 1.2.
Experimental Designs
There are number of experimental designs that are used in carrying out and
experiment. However, Market researchers have used 4 experimental designs most frequently.
These are –
A completely randomized design (CRD) is one where the treatments are assigned
completely at random so that each experimental unit has the same chance of receiving any
one treatment. For the CRD, any difference among experimental units receiving the same
treatment is considered as experimental error. Hence, CRD is appropriate only for
experiments with homogeneous experimental units, such as laboratory experiments, where
environmental effects are relatively easy to control. For field experiments, where there is
generally large variation among experimental plots in such environmental factors as soil, the
CRD is rarely used. CRD is mainly used in agricultural field.
Step 1. Determine the total number of experimental plots (n) as the product of the number of
treatments (t) and the number of replications (r); that is, n = rt. For our example, n = 5 x 4 =
20. Here, one pot with a single plant in it may be called a plot. In case the number of
replications is not the same for all the treatments, the total number of experimental pots is to
be obtained as the sum of the replications for each treatment. i.e.,
n= i
Step 2. Assign a plot number to each experimental plot in any convenient manner; for
example, consecutively from 1 to n.
Step 3. Assign the treatments to the experimental plots randomly using a table of random
numbers.
Example 1: Assume that a farmer wishes to perform the experiment to determine which of
his 3 fertilizers to use on 2800 tress. Assuming that farmer has a farm divided in to 3 terraces,
where those 2800 trees can be divided in the below format
Solution
Scenario 1
First we divide the 2800 trees in to random assignment of almost 3 equal parts
Random Assignment1: 933 trees
Random Assignment2: 933 trees
Random Assignment3: 934 trees
So for example random assignment1 we can assign fertilizer1, random assignment2 we can
assign fertilizer2, random assignment3 we can assign fertilizer3.
Scenario 2
Thus the farmer will be able analyze and compare various fertilizer performance on different
terrace.
Example 2:
A company wishes to test 4 different types of tyre. The tyres lifetime as determined
from their threads are given. Where each tyre has been tried on 6 similar automobiles
assigned at random to their tyres. Determine whether there is a significant difference between
tyres at .05 level.
Solution:
Null Hypothesis: There is no difference between the tyres in their life time.
We choose a random value closest to the average of all values in the table and subtract that
for each tyre in the automobile, for example by choosing 35
Now by using ANOVA (one way classification) Table, We calculate the F- Ratio.
F-Ratio:
The F ratio is the ratio of two mean square values. If the null hypothesis is true, you
expect F to have a value close to 1.0 most of the time. A large F ratio means that the variation
among group mean is more than you'd expect to see by chance
If the value of F-Ratio is closer to 1 it means that null hypothesis is true. If F-ratio is
greater than then we assume that the null hypothesis is false.
In this scenario the value of F-ratio is greater than 1. This indicates there will be variation
between samples. So assumed null hypothesis will be false
Level of significance = 0.05 (given in question)
Degrees of Freedom = (3, 20)
Critical value = 3.10 (calculated from 5 percentage table)
F-Ratio >critical value (i.e) 2.376> 3.10
Hence assumed null hypothesis is false. This indicates there is life time difference between
tyres.
A randomized block design, the experimenter divides subjects into subgroups called
blocks, such that the variability within blocks is less than the variability between blocks.
Then, subjects within each block are randomly assigned to treatment conditions. Compared to
a completely randomized design, this design reduces variability within treatment conditions
and potential confounding, producing a better estimate of treatment effects.
The table below shows a randomized block design for a hypothetical medical experiment.
Gender Treatment
Placebo Vaccine
Male 250 250
Female 250 250
Subjects are assigned to blocks, based on gender. Then, within each block, subjects are
randomly assigned to treatments (either a placebo or a cold vaccine). For this design, 250
men get the placebo, 250 men get the vaccine, 250 women get the placebo, and 250 women
get the vaccine.
It is known that men and women are physiologically different and react differently to
medication. This design ensures that each treatment condition has an equal proportion of men
and women. As a result, differences between treatment conditions cannot be attributed to
gender. This randomized block design removes gender as a potential source of variability and
as a potential confounding variable.
LSD - Latin Square Design - A Latin square is one of the experimental designs which has a
balanced two-way classification scheme say for example - 4 X 4 arrangement. In this scheme
each letter from A to D occurs only once in each row and also only once in each column. The
balance arrangement, it may be noted that, will not get disturbed if any row gets changed with
the other.
A B C D
B C D A
C D A B
D A B C
The balance arrangement achieved in a Latin Square is its main strength. In this design, the
comparisons among treatments, will be free from both differences between rows and
columns. Thus the magnitude of error will be smaller than any other design.
FD - Factorial Designs - This design allows the experimenter to test two or more variables
simultaneously. It also measures interaction effects of the variables and analyzes the impacts
of each of the variables.
In a true experiment, randomization is essential so that the experimenter can infer cause and
effect without any bias.
Internal sources
If available, internal secondary data may be obtained with less time, effort and money
than the external secondary data. In addition, they may also be more pertinent to the situation
at hand since they are from within the organization. The internal sources include
Accounting resources- This gives so much information which can be used by the marketing
researcher. They give information about internal factors.
Sales Force Report- It gives information about the sale of a product. The information
provided is of outside theorganization.
Internal Experts- These are people who are heading the various departments. They can give
an idea of how a particular thing isworking
Miscellaneous Reports- These are what information you are getting from operational
reports.If the data available within the organization are unsuitable or inadequate, the marketer
should extend the search to external secondary data sources.
Government Publications- Government sources provide an extremely rich pool of data for
the researchers. In addition, many of these data are available free of cost on internet websites.
There are number of government agencies generating data. These are:
Director General of Commercial Intelligence- This office operates from Kolkata. It gives
information about foreign trade i.e. import and export. These figures are provided region-
wise and country-wise.
Ministry of Commerce and Industries- This ministry through the office of economic
advisor provides information on wholesale price index. These indices may be related to a
number of sectors like food, fuel, power, food grains etc. It also generates All India
Consumer Price Index numbers for industrial workers, urban, non-manual employees and
cultural labourers.
Reserve Bank of India- This provides information on Banking Savings and investment. RBI
also prepares currency and finance reports.
Labour Bureau- It provides information on skilled, unskilled, white collared jobs etc.
National Sample Survey- This is done by the Ministry of Planning and it provides social,
economic, demographic, industrial and agricultural statistics.
State Statistical Abstract- This gives information on various types of activities related to the
state like - commercial activities, education, occupation etc.
The Bombay Stock Exchange (it publishes a directory containing financial accounts, key
profitability and other relevant matter)
Various Associations of Press Media. Export Promotion Council.
Syndicate Services- These services are provided by certain organizations which collect and
tabulate the marketing information on a regular basis for a number of clients who are the
subscribers to these services. So the services are designed in such a way that the information
suits the subscriber. These services are useful in television viewing, movement of consumer
goods etc. These syndicate services provide information data from both household as well as
institution.
In collecting data from household they use three approaches Survey- They conduct surveys
regarding - lifestyle, sociographic, general topics. Mail Diary Panel- It may be related to 2
fields - Purchase and Media.
Various syndicate services are Operations Research Group (ORG) and The Indian
Marketing Research Bureau (IMRB).
Importance of Syndicate Services
Syndicate services are becoming popular since the constraints of decision making are
changing and we need more of specific decision-making in the light of changing
environment. Also Syndicate services are able to provide information to the industries at a
low unit cost.
Disadvantages of Syndicate Services
The information provided is not exclusive. A number of research agencies provide
customized services which suits the requirement of each individual organization.
International Organization- These includes
The International Labour Organization (ILO)- It publishes data on the total and active
population, employment, unemployment, wages and consumer prices
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and development (OECD) - It publishes data
on foreign trade, industry, food, transport, and science andtechnology.
Based on various features (cost, data, process, source time etc.) various sources of
data can be compared as per table 1.
Sensor data is the output of a device that detects and responds to some type of input
from the physical environment. The output may be used to provide information or input to
another system or to guide a process. Examples are as follows
• A photosensor detects the presence of visible light, infrared transmission (IR) and/or
ultraviolet (UV) energy.
• Lidar, a laser-based method of detection, range finding and mapping, typically uses a
low-power, eye-safe pulsing laser working in conjunction with a camera.
• A charge-coupled device (CCD) stores and displays the data for an image in such a way
that each pixel is converted into an electrical charge, the intensity of which is related to a
color in the color spectrum.
• Smart grid sensors can provide real-time data about grid conditions, detecting outages,
faults and load and triggering alarms.
• Wireless sensor networks combine specialized transducers with a communications
infrastructure for monitoring and recording conditions at diverse locations. Commonly
monitored parameters include temperature, humidity, pressure, wind direction and speed,
illumination intensity, vibration intensity, sound intensity, powerline voltage, chemical
concentrations, pollutant levels and vital body functions.
The simplest form of signal is a direct current (DC) that is switched on and off; this is
the principle by which the early telegraph worked. More complex signals consist of an
alternating-current (AC) or electromagnetic carrier that contains one or more data streams.
Data must be transformed into electromagnetic signals prior to transmission across a
network. Data and signals can be either analog or digital. A signal is periodic if it consists
of a continuously repeating pattern.
The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a space based navigation system that
provides location and time information in all weather conditions, anywhere on or near the
Earth where there is an unobstructed line of sight to four or more GPS satellites. The system
provides critical capabilities to military, civil, and commercial users around the world. The
United States government created the system, maintains it, and makes it freely accessible to
anyone with a GPS receiver.
Accuracy and Precision: This characteristic refers to the exactness of the data. It cannot
have any erroneous elements and must convey the correct message without being misleading.
This accuracy and precision have a component that relates to its intended use. Without
understanding how the data will be consumed, ensuring accuracy and precision could be off-
target or more costly than necessary. For example, accuracy in healthcare might be more
important than in another industry (which is to say, inaccurate data in healthcare could have
more serious consequences) and, therefore, justifiably worth higher levels of investment.
Legitimacy and Validity: Requirements governing data set the boundaries of this
characteristic. For example, on surveys, items such as gender, ethnicity, and nationality
are typically limited to a set of options and open answers are not permitted. Any answers
other than these would not be considered valid or legitimate based on the survey’s
requirement. This is the case for most data and must be carefully considered when
determining its quality. The people in each department in an organization understand what
data is valid or not to them, so the requirements must be leveraged when evaluating data
quality.
Reliability and Consistency: Many systems in today’s environments use and/or collect the
same source data. Regardless of what source collected the data or where it resides, it cannot
contradict a value residing in a different source or collected by a different system. There must
be a stable and steady mechanism that collects and stores the data without contradiction or
unwarranted variance.
Timeliness and Relevance: There must be a valid reason to collect the data to justify the
effort required, which also means it has to be collected at the right moment in time. Data
collected too soon or too late could misrepresent a situation and drive inaccurate
decisions.
Availability and Accessibility: This characteristic can be tricky at times due to legal and
regulatory constraints. Regardless of the challenge, though, individuals need the right level of
access to the data in order to perform their jobs. This presumes that the data exists and is
available for access to be granted.
Granularity and Uniqueness: The level of detail at which data is collected is important,
because confusion and inaccurate decisions can otherwise occur. Aggregated, summarized
and manipulated collections of data could offer a different meaning than the data
implied at a lower level. An appropriate level of granularity must be defined to provide
sufficient uniqueness and distinctive properties to become visible. This is a requirement for
operations to function effectively.
Noisy data is meaningless data. The term has often been used as a synonym for
corrupt data. However, its meaning has expanded to include any data that cannot be
understood and interpreted correctly by machines, such as unstructured text.
Noisy data
• Examples: distortion of a person’s voice when talking on a poor phone and “snow” on
television screen
• We can talk about signal to noise ratio.
Left image of 2 sine waves has low or zero SNR; the right image are the two waves
combined with noise and has high SNR
Origins of noise
BUT...Missing (null) values may have significance in themselves (e.g. missing test in a
medical examination, deathdate missing means still alive!)
Duplicate Data
Data set may include data objects that are duplicates, or almost duplicates of one another
• Data Cleaning: Data is cleansed through processes such as filling in missing values,
smoothing the noisy data, or resolving the inconsistencies in the data.
• Data Integration: Data with different representations are put together and conflicts
within the data are resolved.
• Data Transformation: Data is normalized, aggregated and generalized.
• Data Reduction: This step aims to present a reduced representation of the data in a
data warehouse.
1. Data Cleaning:
The data can have many irrelevant and missing parts. To handle this part, data cleaning is
done. It involves handling of missing data, noisy data etc.
1. Binning Method:
This method works on sorted data in order to smooth it. The whole data is
divided into segments of equal size and then various methods are performed to
complete the task. Each segmented is handled separately. One can replace all
data in a segment by its mean or boundary values can be used to complete the
task.
2. Regression:
Here data can be made smooth by fitting it to a regression function.The
regression used may be linear (having one independent variable) or multiple
(having multiple independent variables).
3. Clustering:
This approach groups the similar data in a cluster. The outliers may be
undetected or it will fall outside the clusters.
2. Data Transformation:
This step is taken in order to transform the data in appropriate forms suitable for mining
process. This involves following ways:
1. Normalization:
It is done in order to scale the data values in a specified range (-1.0 to 1.0 or 0.0 to
1.0)
2. Attribute Selection:
In this strategy, new attributes are constructed from the given set of attributes to help
the mining process.
3. Discretization:
This is done to replace the raw values of numeric attribute by interval levels or
conceptual levels.
4. Concept Hierarchy Generation:
Here attributes are converted from level to higher level in hierarchy. For Example-
The attribute “city” can be converted to “country”.
3. Data Reduction:
Since data mining is a technique that is used to handle huge amount of data. While working
with huge volume of data, analysis became harder in such cases. In order to get rid of this, we
uses data reduction technique. It aims to increase the storage efficiency and reduce data
storage and analysis costs.
UNIT – II
INTRODUCTION TO ANALYTICS
2.1 Introduction to Analytics
As an enormous amount of data gets generated, the need to extract useful insights is a
must for a business enterprise. Data Analytics has a key role in improving your business.
Here are 4 main factors which signify the need for Data Analytics:
• Gather Hidden Insights – Hidden insights from data are gathered and then analyzed
with respect to business requirements.
• Generate Reports – Reports are generated from the data and are passed on to the
respective teams and individuals to deal with further actions for a high rise in
business.
• Perform Market Analysis – Market Analysis can be performed to understand the
strengths and the weaknesses of competitors.
• Improve Business Requirement – Analysis of Data allows improving Business to
customer requirements and experience.
Data Analytics refers to the techniques to analyze data to enhance productivity and
business gain. Data is extracted from various sources and is cleaned and categorized to
analyze different behavioral patterns. The techniques and the tools used vary according to the
organization or individual.
Data analysts translate numbers into plain English. A Data Analyst delivers value to their
companies by taking information about specific topics and then interpreting, analyzing,
and presenting findings in comprehensive reports. So, if you have the capability to collect
data from various sources, analyze the data, gather hidden insights and generate reports, then
you can become a Data Analyst. Refer to the image below:
In general data analytics also deals with bit of human knowledge as discussed below
in figure 2.2 in this under each type of analytics there is a part of human knowledge required
in prediction. Descriptive analytics requires the highest human input while predictive
analytics requires less human input. In case of prescriptive analytics no human input is
required since all the data is predicted.
In general data analytics deals with three main parts, subject knowledge, statistics and
person with computer knowledge to work on a tool to give insight in to the business. In the
mainly used tool is Rand Phyton as shown in figure 2.3
With the increasing demand for Data Analytics in the market, many tools have emerged
with various functionalities for this purpose. Either open-source or user-friendly, the top tools
in the data analytics market are as follows.
• R programming – This tool is the leading analytics tool used for statistics and data
modeling. R compiles and runs on various platforms such as UNIX, Windows, and Mac
OS. It also provides tools to automatically install all packages as per user-requirement.
• Python – Python is an open-source, object-oriented programming language which is easy
to read, write and maintain. It provides various machine learning and visualization
libraries such as Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, Matplotlib, Pandas, Keras etc. It also can be
assembled on any platform like SQL server, a MongoDB database or JSON
• Tableau Public – This is a free software that connects to any data source such as Excel,
corporate Data Warehouse etc. It then creates visualizations, maps, dashboards etc with
real-time updates on the web.
• QlikView – This tool offers in-memory data processing with the results delivered to the
end-users quickly. It also offers data association and data visualization with data being
compressed to almost 10% of its original size.
• SAS – A programming language and environment for data manipulation and analytics,
this tool is easily accessible and can analyze data from different sources.
• Microsoft Excel – This tool is one of the most widely used tools for data analytics.
Mostly used for clients’ internal data, this tool analyzes the tasks that summarize the data
with a preview of pivot tables.
• RapidMiner – A powerful, integrated platform that can integrate with any data source
types such as Access, Excel, Microsoft SQL, Tera data, Oracle, Sybase etc. This tool is
mostly used for predictive analytics, such as data mining, text analytics, machine
learning.
• KNIME – Konstanz Information Miner (KNIME) is an open-source data analytics
platform, which allows you to analyze and model data. With the benefit of visual
programming, KNIME provides a platform for reporting and integration through its
modular data pipeline concept.
• OpenRefine – Also known as GoogleRefine, this data cleaning software will help you
clean up data for analysis. It is used for cleaning messy data, the transformation of data
and parsing data from websites.
• Apache Spark – One of the largest large-scale data processing engine, this tool executes
applications in Hadoop clusters 100 times faster in memory and 10 times faster on disk.
This tool is also popular for data pipelines and machine learning model development.
Apart from the above-mentioned capabilities, a Data Analyst should also possess skills
such as Statistics, Data Cleaning, Exploratory Data Analysis, and Data Visualization. Also, if
you have knowledge of Machine Learning, then that would make you stand out from the
crowd.
Data analytics is mainly involved in field of business in various concerns for the
following purpose and it varies according to business needs and it is discussed below in
detail. Nowadays majority of the business deals with prediction with large amount of data to
work with.
Using big data as fundamental factor of making decision which need new capability, most
firms are far away from accessing all data resources. Companies in various sectors have
acquired crucial insight from the structured data collected from different enterprise systems
and anatomize by commercial database management systems. Eg:
1.) Facebook and Twitter to standard the instantaneous influence on campaign and to
examine consumer opinion about their products
2.) Some companies, like Amazon, eBay, and Google, considered as early commandants,
examining factors that control performance to define what raise sales revenue and
user interactivity.
Hadoop is an open source software platform that enables processing of large data sets in a
distributed computing environment", it discusses some concepts according to big data, the
rules for building, organizing and analyzing huge data-sets in the business environment, they
offered 3 architecture layers and also they indicate some graphical tools to explore and
represent unstructured-data, the authors specified how the famous companies could improve
their business. Eg: Google, Twitter and Facebook show their attention in processing big data
within cloud-environment
The Map() step: Each worker node applies the Map() function to the local data and writes the
output to atemporary storage space. The Map() code is run exactly once for each K1 key
value, generating output that isorganized by key values K2. A master node arranges it so that
for redundant copies of input data only one isprocessed.
The Shuffle ()step: The map output is sent to the reduce processors, which assign the K2 key
value that eachprocessor should work on, and provide that processor with all of the map-
generated data associated with that keyvalue, such that all data belonging to one key are
located on the same worker node.
The Reduce() step: Worker nodes process each group of output data(perkey) in parallel,
executing the userprovidedReduce() code; each function is run exactly once for each K2 key
value pro-duced by the map step.
Produce the final output: The MapReduce system collects all of the reduce outputs and sorts
them by K2 to producethe final out-come.
Fig.2.4 shows the classical “word count problem” using the MapReduce paradigm. As shown
in Fig.2.4, initially aprocess will split the data into a subset of chunks that will later be
processed by the mappers. Once the key/values aregenerated by mappers, a shuffling process
is used to mix (combine) these key values (combining the same keys in the sameworker
node). Finally, the reduce functions are used to count the words that generate a common
output as a result of thealgorithm. As a result of the execution or wrappers/reducers, the out-
put will generate a sorted list of word counts from theoriginal text input.
IBM and Microsoft are prominent representatives. IBM represented many big data options
that enable users to storing, managing, and analyzing data through various resources; it has a
good rendering on business-intelligence also healthcare areas. Compared with IBM, also
Microsoft showed powerful work in the area of cloud computing activities and techniques
another example is Face-book and Twitter, who are collecting various data from user's
profiles and using it to increase their revenue
Big data analytics and Business intelligence are united fields which became widely
significant in the business and academic area, companies are permanently trying to make
insight from the extending the three V's ( variety, volume and velocity) to support decision
making
2.4 Databases
Database is an organized collection of structured information, or data, typically
stored electronically in a computer system. A database is usually controlled by
The database can be divided into various categories such as text databases,
desktop database programs, relational database management systems (RDMS), and NoSQL
and object-oriented databases
A text database is a system that maintains a (usually large) text collection and
provides fast and accurate access to it. Eg: Text book, magazine, journals, manuals, etc..
NoSQL databases are non-tabular, and store data differently than relational
tables. NoSQL databases come in a variety of types based on their data model. The main
types are document, key-value, wide-column, and graph. Eg: JSON,Mango DB,CouchDB etc
Object-oriented databases (OODB) are databases that represent data in the form
of objects and classes. In object-oriented terminology, an object is a real-world entity, and a
class is a collection of objects. Object-oriented databases follow the fundamental principles
of object-oriented programming (OOP). Eg: c++, java, c#, small talk, LISP etc..
In any database we will be working with data to perform any kind of analysis and
predication. In relational data base management system we normally use rows to represent
data and columns to represent the attribute.
InNominal Data there is no natural ordering in values in the attribute of the dataset.
Eg: color, Gender, nouns (name, place, animal, thing). These categories cannot be predefined
with order for example there is no specific way to arrange gender of 50 students in a class. In
this case the first student can be male or female similarly for all 50 students. So ordering
cannot be valid.
In Ordinal Data there isnatural ordering in values in the attribute of the dataset. Eg:
size (S, M, L, XL, XXL), rating (excellent, good, better, worst). In the above example we can
quantify the amount of data after performing ordering which gives valuable insights into the
data.
Discrete Attribute which takes only finite number of numerical values (integers). Eg:
number of buttons, no of days for product delivery etc.. These data can be represented at
every specific interval in case of time series data mining or even in ratio based entries.
Continuous Attribute which takes finite number of fractional values. Eg: price,
discount, height, weight, length, temperature, speed etc….. These data can be represented at
every specific interval in case of time series data mining or even in ratio based entries.
Data modelling is nothing but a process through which data is stored structurally in a
format in a database. Data modelling is important because it enables organizations to make
data-driven decisions and meet varied business goals.
The entire process of data modelling is not as easy as it seems, though. You are
required to have a deeper understanding of the structure of an organization and then propose
a solution that aligns with its end-goals and suffices it in achieving the desired objectives.
Data modeling can be achieved in various ways. However, the basic concept of each
of them remains the same. Let’s have a look at the commonly used data modeling methods:
Hierarchical model
As the name indicates, this data model makes use of hierarchy to structure the data in
a tree-like format as shown in figure 2.6. However, retrieving and accessing data is difficult
in a hierarchical database. This is why it is rarely used now.
Relational model
The network model is inspired by the hierarchical model. However, unlike the
hierarchical model, this model makes it easier to convey complex relationships as each record
can be linked with multiple parent records as shown in figure 2.8. In this model data can be
shared easily and the computation becomes easier.
This database model consists of a collection of objects, each with its own features and
methods. This type of database model is also called the post-relational database model as
shown in figure 2.8.
Entity-relationship model
The entity relationship diagram explains relation between variables and with their
primary key and foreign key as shown in figure 2.10. along with this it also explains the
multiple instances of relation between tables.
Now that we have a basic understanding of data modeling, let’s see why it is important.
You will agree with us that the main goal behind data modeling is to equip your business and
contribute to its functioning. As a data modeler, you can achieve this objective only when
you know the needs of your enterprise correctly.
It is essential to make yourself familiar with the varied needs of your business so that you can
prioritize and discard the data depending on the situation.
Key takeaway: Have a clear understanding of your organization’s requirements and organize
your data properly.
Things will be sweet initially, but they can become complex in no time. This is why it is
highly recommended to keep your data models small and simple, to begin with.
Once you are sure of your initial models in terms of accuracy, you can gradually introduce
more datasets. This helps you in two ways. First, you are able to spot any inconsistencies in
the initial stages. Second, you can eliminate them on the go.
Key takeaway: Keep your data models simple. The best data modeling practice here is to use
a tool which can start small and scale up as needed.
Organize your data based on facts, dimensions, filters, and order
You can find answers to most business questions by organizing your data in terms of four
elements – facts, dimensions, filters, and order.
Let’s understand this better with the help of an example. Let’s assume that you run four e-
commerce stores in four different locations of the world. It is the year-end, and you want to
analyze which e-commerce store made the most sales.
In such a scenario, you can organize your data over the last year. Facts will be the overall
sales data of last 1 year, the dimensions will be store location, the filter will be last 12
months, and the order will be the top stores in decreasing order.
This way, you can organize all your data properly and position yourself to answer an array
of business intelligence questions without breaking a sweat.
Key takeaway: It is highly recommended to organize your data properly using individual
tables for facts and dimensions to enable quick analysis.
While you might be tempted to keep all the data with you, do not ever fall for this trap!
Although storage is not a problem in this digital age, you might end up taking a toll over your
machines’ performance.
More often than not, just a small yet useful amount of data is enough to answer all the business-
related questions. Spending huge on hosting enormous data of data only leads to performance
issues, sooner or later.
Key takeaway: Have a clear opinion on how much datasets you want to keep. Maintaining
more than what is actually required wastes your data modeling, and leads to performance
issues.
Data modeling is a big project, especially when you are dealing with huge amounts of data.
Thus, you need to be cautious enough. Keep checking your data model before continuing to
the next step.
For example, if you need to choose a primary key to identify each record in the dataset
properly, make sure that you are picking the right attribute. Product ID could be one such
attribute. Thus, even if two counts match, their product ID can help you in distinguishing
each record. Keep checking if you are on the right track. Are product IDs same too? In those
aces, you will need to look for another dataset to establish the relationship.
Key takeaway: It is the best practice to maintain one-to-one or one-to-many relationships.
The many-to-many relationship only introduces complexity in the system.
Key takeaway: Data models become outdated quicker than you expect. It is necessary that
you keep them updated from time to time.
The Wrap Up
Data modeling plays a crucial role in the growth of businesses, especially when you
organizations to base your decisions on facts and figures. To achieve the varied business
intelligence insights and goals, it is recommended to model your data correctly and use
appropriate tools to ensure the simplicity of the system.
In statistics, imputation is the process of replacing missing data with substituted values. ...
Because missing data can create problems for analyzing data, imputation is seen as a way
to avoid pitfalls involved with list-wise deletion of cases that have missing values.
Advantages:
• Works well with numerical dataset.
• Very fast and reliable.
Disadvantage:
• Does not work with categorical attributes
• Does not correlate relation between columns
• Not very accurate.
• Does not account for any uncertainty in data
The k nearest neighbours is an algorithm that is used for simple classification. The algorithm
uses ‘feature similarity’ to predict the values of any new data points. This means that the new
point is assigned a value based on how closely it resembles the points in the training set. This can
be very useful in making predictions about the missing values by finding the k’s closest
neighbours to the observation with missing data and then imputing them based on the non-
missing values in the neighbourhood.
Advantage:
• This method is very accurate than mean, median and mode
Disadvantage:
• Sensitive to outliers
UNIT-3
BLUE Property
assumptions
• The Gauss Markov theorem tells us that if a certain set of assumptions are met, the
ordinary least squares estimate for regression coefficients gives you the Best Linear
Unbiased Estimate (BLUE) possible.
• Linearity:
o The parameters we are estimating using the OLS method must be themselves
linear.
• Random:
o Our data must have been randomly sampled from the population.
• Non-Collinearity:
o The regressors being calculated aren’t perfectly correlated with each other.
• Exogeneity:
o The regressors aren’t correlated with the error term.
• Homoscedasticity:
o No matter what the values of our regressors might be, the error of the variance is
constant.
• Checking how well our data matches these assumptions is an important part of estimating
regression coefficients.
• When you know where these conditions are violated, you may be able to plan ways to
change your experiment setup to help your situation fit the ideal Gauss Markov situation
more closely.
• In practice, the Gauss Markov assumptions are rarely all met perfectly, but they are still
useful as a benchmark, and because they show us what ‘ideal’ conditions would be.
• They also allow us to pinpoint problem areas that might cause our estimated regression
coefficients to be inaccurate or even unusable.
• and generated by the ordinary least squares estimate is the best linear unbiased estimate
(BLUE) possible if
• The first of these assumptions can be read as “The expected value of the error term is
zero.”. The second assumption is collinearity, the third is exogeneity, and the fourth is
homoscedasticity.
Regression Concepts
Regression
• Each xi corresponds to the set of attributes of the ith observation (known as explanatory
variables) and yi corresponds to the target (or response) variable.
• The explanatory attributes of a regression task can be either discrete or continuous.
Regression (Definition)
• Regression is the task of learning a target function f that maps each attribute set x into a
continuous-valued output y.
• To find a target function that can fit the input data with minimum error.
• The error function for a regression task can be expressed in terms of the sum of absolute
or squared error:
• Suppose we wish to fit the following linear model to the observed data:
• where w0 and w1 are parameters of the model and are called the regression coefficients.
• A standard approach for doing this is to apply the method of least squares, which
attempts to find the parameters (w0,w1) that minimize the sum of the squared error
• These equations can be summarized by the following matrix equation' which is also
known as the normal equation:
• Since
• the normal equations can be solved to obtain the following estimates for the parameters.
• Thus, the linear model that best fits the data in terms of minimizing the SSE is
• We can show that the general solution to the normal equations given in D.6 can be
expressed as follow:
• Thus, linear model that results in the minimum squared error is given by
• In summary, the least squares method is a systematic approach to fit a linear model to the
response variable g by minimizing the squared error between the true and estimated value
of g.
• Although the model is relatively simple, it seems to provide a reasonably accurate
approximation because a linear model is the first-order Taylor series approximation for
any function with continuous derivatives.
Logistic Regression
• Consider a procedure in which individuals are selected on the basis of their scores in a
battery of tests.
• After five years the candidates are classified as "good" or "poor.”
• We are interested in examining the ability of the tests to predict the job performance of
the candidates.
• Here the response variable, performance, is dichotomous.
• We can code "good" as 1 and "poor" as 0, for example.
• The predictor variables are the scores in the tests.
• In a study to determine the risk factors for cancer, health records of several people were
studied.
• Data were collected on several variables, such as age, gender, smoking, diet, and the
family's medical history.
• The response variable was the person had cancer (Y = 1) or did not have cancer (Y = 0).
• The relationship between the probability π and X can often be represented by a logistic
response function.
• It resembles an S-shaped curve.
• The probability π initially increases slowly with increase in X, and then the increase
accelerates, finally stabilizes, but does not increase beyond 1.
• Intuitively this makes sense.
• Consider the probability of a questionnaire being returned as a function of cash reward,
or the probability of passing a test as a function of the time put in studying for it.
• The shape of the S-curve can be reproduced if we model the probabilities as follows:
• A sigmoid function is a bounded differentiable real function that is defined for all real
input values and has a positive derivative at each point.
• Modeling the response probabilities by the logistic distribution and estimating the
parameters of the model given below constitutes fitting a logistic regression.
• In logistic regression the fitting is carried out by working with the logits.
• The Logit transformation produces a model that is linear in the parameters.
• The method of estimation used is the maximum likelihood method.
• The maximum likelihood estimates are obtained numerically, using an iterative
procedure.
OLS:
• The ordinary least squares, or OLS, can also be called the linear least squares.
• This is a method for approximately determining the unknown parameters located in a
linear regression model.
• According to books of statistics and other online sources, the ordinary least squares is
obtained by minimizing the total of squared vertical distances between the observed
responses within the dataset and the responses predicted by the linear approximation.
• Through a simple formula, you can express the resulting estimator, especially the single
regressor, located on the right-hand side of the linear regression model.
• For example, you have a set of equations which consists of several equations that have
unknown parameters.
• You may use the ordinary least squares method because this is the most standard
approach in finding the approximate solution to your overly determined systems.
• In other words, it is your overall solution in minimizing the sum of the squares of errors
in your equation.
• Data fitting can be your most suited application. Online sources have stated that the data
that best fits the ordinary least squares minimizes the sum of squared residuals.
• “Residual” is “the difference between an observed value and the fitted value provided by
a model.”
• is a method used in estimating the parameters of a statistical model, and for fitting a
statistical model to data.
• If you want to find the height measurement of every basketball player in a specific
location, you can use the maximum likelihood estimation.
• Normally, you would encounter problems such as cost and time constraints.
• If you could not afford to measure all of the basketball players’ heights, the maximum
likelihood estimation would be very handy.
• Using the maximum likelihood estimation, you can estimate the mean and variance of the
height of your subjects.
• The MLE would set the mean and variance as parameters in determining the specific
parametric values in a given model.
• For j = 1,2,···, (k - 1). The model parameters are estimated by the method of maximum
likelihood. Statistical software is available to do this fitting.
UNIT-4
Regression vs. Segmentation
⎯ We use linear or logistic regression technique for developing accurate models for
predicting an outcome of interest.
⎯ Often, we create separate models for separate segments.
⎯ Segmentation methods such as CHAID or CRT is used to judge their effectiveness
⎯ Creating separate model for separate segments may be time consuming and not worth the
effort.
⎯ But, creating separate model for separate segments may provide higher predictive power.
⎯ Market Segmentation
⎯ Dividing the target market or customers on the basis of some significant features which
could help a company sell more products in less marketing expenses.
⎯ Companies have limited marketing budgets. Yet, the marketing team is expected to
makes large number of sales to ensure rising revenue & profits.
⎯ A product is created in two ways:
⎯ Create a product after analyzing (research) the needs and wants of target market –
For example: Computer. Companies like Dell, IBM, Microsoft entered this
market after analyzing the enormous market which this product upholds.
⎯ Create a product which evokes the needs & wants in target market – For example:
iPhone.
⎯ Once the product is created, the ball shifts to the marketing team’s court.
⎯ As mentioned above, they make use of market segmentation techniques.
⎯ This ensures the product is positioned to the right segment of customers with high
propensity to buy.
⎯ A very similar approach can also be used for developing a linear regression model.
⎯ Logistic regression uses 1 or 0 indicator in the historical campaign data, which indicates
whether the customer has responded to the offer or not.
⎯ Usually, one uses the target (or ‘Y’ known as dependent variable) that has been identified
for model development to undertake an objective segmentation.
⎯ Remember, a separate model will be built for each segment.
⎯ A segmentation scheme which provides the maximum difference between the segments
with regards to the objective is usually selected.
⎯ Below is a simple example of this approach.
Objective Segmentation
• Segmentation to identify the type of customers who would respond to a particular offer.
• Segmentation to identify high spenders among customers who will use the e-commerce
channel for festive shopping.
• Segmentation to identify customers who will default on their credit obligation for a loan
or credit card.
Non-Objective Segmentation
• Segmentation of the customer base to understand the specific profiles which exist within
the customer base so that multiple marketing actions can be personalized for each
segment
• Segmentation of geographies on the basis of affluence and lifestyle of people living in
each geography so that sales and distribution strategies can be formulated accordingly.
• Segmentation of web site visitors on the basis of browsing behavior to understand the
level of engagement and affinity towards the brand.
• Hence, it is critical that the segments created on the basis of an objective segmentation
methodology must be different with respect to the stated objective (e.g. response to an
offer).
• However, in case of a non-objective methodology, the segments are different with respect
to the “generic profile” of observations belonging to each segment, but not with regards
to any specific outcome of interest.
• The most common techniques for building non-objective segmentation are cluster
analysis, K nearest neighbor techniques etc.
• Each of these techniques uses a distance measure (e.g. Euclidian distance, Manhattan
distance, Mahalanobis distance etc.)
• This is done to maximize the distance between the two segments.
• This implies maximum difference between the segments with regards to a combination of
all the variables (or factors).
Tree Building
• goal
o to create a model that predicts the value of a target variable based on several input
variables.
• Classification tree analysis is when the predicted outcome is the class to which the
data belongs.
• Regression tree analysis is when the predicted outcome can be considered a real
number. (e.g. the price of a house, or a patient’s length of stay in a hospital).
• A decision tree
o is a flow-chart-like structure
o each internal (non-leaf) node denotes a test on an attribute
o each branch represents the outcome of a test,
o each leaf (or terminal) node holds a class label.
o The topmost node in a tree is the root node.
• Decision-tree algorithms:
o ID3 (Iterative Dichotomiser 3)
o C4.5 (successor of ID3)
o CART (Classification and Regression Tree)
o CHAID (CHI-squared Automatic Interaction Detector). Performs multi-level
splits when computing classification trees.
o MARS: extends decision trees to handle numerical data better. Conditional
Inference Trees.
• Statistics-based approach that uses non-parametric tests as splitting criteria, corrected for
multiple testing to avoid over fitting.
• This approach results in unbiased predictor selection and does not require pruning.
• ID3 and CART follow a similar approach for learning decision tree from training tuples.
• Splits are found that maximize the homogeneity of child nodes with respect to the value
of the dependent variable.
• Impurity Measure:
• GINI Index Used by the CART (classification and regression tree) algorithm, Gini
impurity is a measure of how often a randomly chosen element from the set would be
incorrectly labeled if it were randomly labeled according to the distribution of labels in
the subset.
• Gini impurity can be computed by summing the probability fi of each item being chosen
times the probability 1-fi of a mistake in categorizing that item.
• It reaches its minimum (zero) when all cases in the node fall into a single target category.
• To compute Gini impurity for a set of items, suppose i ε {1, 2... m}, and let fi be the
fraction of items labeled with value i in the set.
• Pruning
• After building the decision tree, a tree-pruning step can be performed to reduce the size
of the decision tree.
• Pruning helps by trimming the branches of the initial tree in a way that improves the
generalization capability of the decision tree.
• The errors committed by a classification model are generally divided into two types:
o training errors
o generalization errors.
• Training error
o also known as resubstitution error or apparent error.
o it is the number of misclassification errors committed on training records.
• generalization error
o is the expected error of the model on previously unseen records.
o A good classification model must not only fit the training data well, it must also
accurately classify records it has never seen before.
• A good model must have low training error as well as low generalization error.
• Model overfitting
o Decision trees that are too large are susceptible to a phenomenon known as
overfitting.
o A model that fits the training data too well can have a poorer generalization error
than a model with a higher training error.
o Such a situation is known as model overfitting.
• Model underfitting
o The training and test error rates of the model are large when the size of the tree is
very small.
o This situation is known as model underfitting.
o Underfitting occurs because the model has yet to learn the true structure of the
data.
o Model complexity
o To understand the overfitting phenomenon, the training error of a model can be
reduced by increasing the model complexity.
o Overfitting and underfitting are two pathologies that are related to the model
complexity.
• Applications
o ARIMA models are important for generating forecasts and providing
understanding in all kinds of time series problems from economics to health care
applications.
o In quality and reliability, they are important in process monitoring if observations
are correlated.
o designing schemes for process adjustment
o monitoring a reliability system over time
o forecasting time series
o estimating missing values
o finding outliers and atypical events
o understanding the effects of changes in a system
• Forecast Accuracy can be defined as the deviation of Forecast or Prediction from the
actual results.
Error = Actual demand – Forecast
OR
ei = At – Ft
• We measure Forecast Accuracy by 2 methods :
• Mean Forecast Error (MFE)
o For n time periods where we have actual demand and forecast values:
o Ideal value = 0;
o MFE > 0, model tends to under-forecast
o MFE < 0, model tends to over-forecast
• While MFE is a measure of forecast model bias, MAD indicates the absolute size of the
errors
ETL Approach
• Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) refers to a process in database usage and especially
in data warehousing that:
o Extracts data from homogeneous or heterogeneous data sources
o Transforms the data for storing it in proper format or structure for querying and
analysis purpose
o Loads it into the final target (database, more specifically, operational data store,
data mart, or data warehouse)
• Usually all the three phases execute in parallel since the data extraction takes time, so
while the data is being pulled another transformation process executes, processing the
already received data and prepares the data for loading and as soon as there is some data
ready to be loaded into the target, the data loading kicks off without waiting for the
completion of the previous phases.
• ETL systems commonly integrate data from multiple applications (systems), typically
developed and supported by different vendors or hosted on separate computer hardware.
• The disparate systems containing the original data are frequently managed and operated
by different employees.
• For example, a cost accounting system may combine data from payroll, sales, and
purchasing.
o Extract
▪ The Extract step covers the data extraction from the source system and
makes it accessible for further processing.
▪ The main objective of the extract step is to retrieve all the required data
from the source system with as little resources as possible.
▪ The extract step should be designed in a way that it does not negatively
affect the source system in terms or performance, response time or any
kind of locking.
o Transform
▪ The transform step applies a set of rules to transform the data from the
source to the target.
▪ This includes converting any measured data to the same dimension (i.e.
conformed dimension) using the same units so that they can later be
joined.
▪ The transformation step also requires joining data from several sources,
generating aggregates, generating surrogate keys, sorting, deriving new
calculated values, and applying advanced validation rules.
o Load
▪ During the load step, it is necessary to ensure that the load is performed
correctly and with as little resources as possible.
▪ The target of the Load process is often a database.
▪ In order to make the load process efficient, it is helpful to disable any
constraints and indexes before the load and enable them back only after
the load completes.
▪ The referential integrity needs to be maintained by ETL tool to ensure
consistency.
• Staging
o It should be possible to restart, at least, some of the phases independently from
theothers.
o For example, if the transformation step fails, it should not be necessary to
restart the Extract step.
o We can ensure this by implementing proper staging. Staging means that the
data is simply dumped to the location (called the Staging Area) so that it can
then be read by the next processing phase.
o The staging area is also used during ETL process to store intermediate results
of processing.
o This is ok for the ETL process which uses for this purpose.
o However, the staging area should be accessed by the load ETL process only.
o It should never be available to anyone else; particularly not to end users as
it isnot intended for data presentation to the end-user.
o May contain incomplete or in-the-middle-of-the-processing data.
UNIT-5
Data Visualization
Data Visualization
• Data visualization is the art and practice of gathering, analyzing, and graphically
representing empirical information.
• They are sometimes called information graphics, or even just charts and graphs.
• The goal of visualizing data is to tell the story in the data.
• Telling the story is predicated on understanding the data at a very deep level, and
gathering insight from comparisons of data points in the numbers
• Gain insight into an information space by mapping data onto graphical primitives
Provide qualitative overview of large data sets
• Search for patterns, trends, structure, irregularities, and relationships among data.
• Help find interesting regions and suitable parameters for further quantitative analysis.
• Provide a visual proof of computer representations derived.
• For a data set of m dimensions, create m windows on the screen, one for each dimension.
• The m dimension values of a record are mapped to m pixels at the corresponding
positions in the windows.
• The colors of the pixels reflect the corresponding values.
• To save space and show the connections among multiple dimensions, space filling is
often done in a circle segment.
Methods
• Direct visualization
• Scatterplot and scatterplot matrices
• Landscapes Projection pursuit technique: Help users find meaningful projections of
multidimensional data
• Prosection views
• Hyperslice
• Parallel coordinates
Scatter Plots
Scatterplot Matrices
Parallel Coordinates
Chernoff Faces
Stick Figure
• For a large data set of high dimensionality, it would be difficult to visualize all
dimensions at the same time.
• Hierarchical visualization techniques partition all dimensions into subsets (i.e.,
subspaces).
• The subspaces are visualized in a hierarchical manner
• “Worlds-within-Worlds,” also known as n-Vision, is a representative hierarchical
visualization method.
• To visualize a 6-D data set, where the dimensions are F,X1,X2,X3,X4,X5.
• We want to observe how F changes w.r.t. other dimensions. We can fix X3,X4,X5
dimensions to selected values and visualize changes to F w.r.t. X1, X2
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