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A Live Introduction to Data Science: Naive Bayes and Holt-Winters Forecasting

3/12/2014

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A month ago I spoke at Strata Conf in Santa Clara. Unlike my usual talks, this one was a 3 hour tutorial taken from my book, Data Smart. Specifically, I spent 3 hours doing chapter 3 and an abbreviated chapter 8. On the whole, I think it was a useful session, so I've posted it online so anybody can follow along.

Chapter 3 is an introduction to supervised machine learning via naive Bayes. And Chapter 8 is demand forecasting using triple exponential smoothing (Holt-Winters).

The first 5 minutes of the first video have garbled audio, but the tech fixes it before too long. My apologies.

To follow along, download the spreadsheets for chapters 3 and 8 from the downloads section of the book's website:
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-111866146X.html

Direct links:
http://media.wiley.com/product_ancillary/6X/11186614/DOWNLOAD/ch03.zip
http://media.wiley.com/product_ancillary/6X/11186614/DOWNLOAD/ch08.zip

You'll need to unzip these spreadsheets and clear some data out of them per my instructions in the talk. Also, you'll need access to spreadsheet software.

PART 1:
You're doing great, hang in there! Part 2:
Can you feel the knowledge washing over you? Part 3:
One lap to go!!! Part 4:
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PV
3/24/2014 03:52:58

Super thanks to John to go through the pain of compressing pivotal parts of the Data Smart book and jam into these videos for Strata conference and publish it.

I purchased the book and for all you Naive audience out there who want to get your feet wet into machine learning, stats, forecast, optimization you name it, this book is the first step.

Thanks John

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