{"id":3300,"date":"2017-05-23T18:07:17","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T16:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geekosas.com\/?p=3300"},"modified":"2026-05-23T18:07:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T16:07:37","slug":"data-science-course-in-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekosas.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/23\/data-science-course-in-r\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Science course in R"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On October 20, I will teach a Data Science course using R.<\/p>\n<p>The topics covered will be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Data Cleaning<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Supervised classification models<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>Logistic regression.<\/li>\n<li>Naive Bayes.<\/li>\n<li>Trees and Random Forest.<\/li>\n<li>Neural Networks.<\/li>\n<li>Grid Search (hyperparameter tuning).<\/li>\n<li>Evaluation of classification models.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Unsupervised models<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>Dimensionality Reduction (PCA) -> Applied example of replicating an investment fund with PCA.<\/li>\n<li>Segmentation: K-Means.<\/li>\n<li>Association Rules.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Web applications in R:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Shiny<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can buy tickets at: <a href=\"https:\/\/welcu.com\/metric-learning\/intensivo-de-r-para-data-science\"><a href=\"https:\/\/welcu.com\/metric-learning\/intensivo-de-r-para-data-science\">https:\/\/welcu.com\/metric-learning\/intensivo-de-r-para-data-science<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions, you can email me at danielfm123@gmail.com or marco@metricars.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>On October 20, I will teach a Data Science course using R. 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