#Big Data Course

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The Importance of Data Analytics for Better Business Decision Making

In today's business context, data has emerged as a critical asset for strategic decision-making processes. With the development of digital technologies and the rise of big data, organizations are increasingly turning to data analytics to gain actionable insights. This article investigates the revolutionary role of data analytics in business decision making, including its relevance, benefits, and limitations.

The significance of data analytics:

Data analytics is the methodical analysis of large databases to discover useful patterns, trends, and correlations. Organizations can extract important insights from heterogeneous data sources by using advanced statistical algorithms, machine learning approaches, and data visualization technologies. These insights serve as the cornerstone for educated decision-making in a variety of fields, including marketing, finance, operations, and customer service.

Enhancing Decision Making using Data Analytics:

Data analytics enables organizations to make data-driven decisions based on factual facts rather than intuition or hypothesis. Businesses may better predict industry trends, client preferences, and upcoming possibilities by analyzing historical data and real-time information. This allows them to better allocate resources, manage risks, and capitalize on competitive advantages.

Furthermore, data analytics enables scenario analysis and predictive modeling, allowing businesses to forecast future events and assess various courses of action. Whether it's anticipating sales performance, optimizing pricing tactics, or finding operational inefficiencies, data-driven insights help decision makers develop plans that are aligned with organizational goals.

Advantages of Data-Driven Decision Making:

Adoption of data analytics provides numerous benefits for firms looking to acquire a competitive advantage in today's dynamic industry. This includes:

Improved Accuracy: Data analytics allows organizations to base their decisions on empirical evidence, minimizing the possibility of errors or biases that come with subjective decision-making processes.

Improved Efficiency: By automating data analysis processes and streamlining decision-making workflows, firms can increase operational efficiency and resource utilization.

Enhanced Strategic Insights: Data analytics offers deeper insights into market dynamics, customer behavior, and competitive landscapes, allowing organizations to develop more successful strategic plans and initiatives.

Agility and Adaptability: Real-time analytics enable firms to respond swiftly to changing market conditions, new trends, and customer preferences, fostering agility and adaptability in decision making.

Challenges and Considerations: Data analytics offer significant benefits, but implementation can be challenging. Organizations must deal with problems such as data quality, privacy concerns, talent shortages, and technological difficulties. Furthermore, in the age of data-driven decision making, it is vital to ensure ethical data use and compliance with regulatory frameworks.

Conclusion:

In conclusion, data analytics has developed as a critical component of modern corporate decision making, providing organizations with unmatched insights into their operations, customers, and markets. Businesses that leverage the power of data analytics can open new opportunities, manage risks, and gain a competitive advantage in today's fast changing landscape. However, success in exploiting data analytics is dependent not only on technology skills, but also on organizational culture, talent development, and ethical concerns. As businesses embrace data-driven decision making, the revolutionary power of data analytics will continue to redefine industries and drive innovation.

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[isthereintruthnobeauty1968]

i liked the little data and spock exchange in unification and it made sense what w their opposite directions wrt desire to associate with 'humanity'. that said i think worf is a more direct parallel to spock in that respect

[chickenisamazing]

I have like. Three friends in school I guess. The Sri Lankan girl and white guy from my program and that one brown guy who's not in my program but is in some of my classes. I think I might be befriending those two DS undergrads, that guy who sat next to me yesterday and the older retired gay man with the delightful southern accent. And there's the Chinese girl who's my partner for my project in database systems who's not even from the comp sci department (she's from math which is way cooler). I think I don't need to be nervous.

[mvishnukumar]

What are some challenging concepts for beginners learning data science, such as statistics and machine learning?

Hi,

For beginners in data science, several concepts can be challenging due to their complexity and depth. 

Here are some of the most common challenging concepts in statistics and machine learning:

Statistics:

Probability Distributions: Understanding different probability distributions (e.g., normal, binomial, Poisson) and their properties can be difficult. Knowing when and how to apply each distribution requires a deep understanding of their characteristics and applications.

Hypothesis Testing: Hypothesis testing involves formulating null and alternative hypotheses, selecting appropriate tests (e.g., t-tests, chi-square tests), and interpreting p-values. The concepts of statistical significance and Type I/Type II errors can be complex and require careful consideration.

Confidence Intervals: Calculating and interpreting confidence intervals for estimates involves understanding the trade-offs between precision and reliability. Beginners often struggle with the concept of confidence intervals and their implications for statistical inference.

Regression Analysis: Multiple regression analysis, including understanding coefficients, multicollinearity, and model assumptions, can be challenging. Interpreting regression results and diagnosing issues such as heteroscedasticity and autocorrelation require a solid grasp of statistical principles.

Machine Learning:

Bias-Variance Tradeoff: Balancing bias and variance to achieve a model that generalizes well to new data can be challenging. Understanding overfitting and underfitting, and how to use techniques like cross-validation to address these issues, requires careful analysis.

Feature Selection and Engineering: Selecting the most relevant features and engineering new ones can significantly impact model performance. Beginners often find it challenging to determine which features are important and how to transform raw data into useful features.

Algorithm Selection and Tuning: Choosing the appropriate machine learning algorithm for a given problem and tuning its hyperparameters can be complex. Each algorithm has its own strengths, limitations, and parameters that need to be optimized.

Model Evaluation Metrics: Understanding and selecting the right evaluation metrics (e.g., accuracy, precision, recall, F1 score) for different types of models and problems can be challenging.

Advanced Topics:

Deep Learning: Concepts such as neural networks, activation functions, backpropagation, and hyperparameter tuning in deep learning can be intricate. Understanding how deep learning models work and how to optimize them requires a solid foundation in both theoretical and practical aspects.

Dimensionality Reduction: Techniques like Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (t-SNE) for reducing the number of features while retaining essential information can be difficult to grasp and apply effectively.

To overcome these challenges, beginners should focus on building a strong foundation in fundamental concepts through practical exercises, online courses, and hands-on projects. Seeking clarification from mentors or peers and engaging in data science communities can also provide valuable support and insights.

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[jcmarchi]

MIT researchers discover the universe’s oldest stars in our own galactic backyard

New Post has been published on https://thedigitalinsider.com/mit-researchers-discover-the-universes-oldest-stars-in-our-own-galactic-backyard/

MIT researchers discover the universe’s oldest stars in our own galactic backyard

MIT researchers, including several undergraduate students, have discovered three of the oldest stars in the universe, and they happen to live in our own galactic neighborhood.

The team spotted the stars in the Milky Way’s “halo” — the cloud of stars that envelopes the entire main galactic disk. Based on the team’s analysis, the three stars formed between 12 and 13 billion years ago, the time when the very first galaxies were taking shape.

The researchers have coined the stars “SASS,” for Small Accreted Stellar System stars, as they believe each star once belonged to its own small, primitive galaxy that was later absorbed by the larger but still growing Milky Way. Today, the three stars are all that are left of their respective galaxies. They circle the outskirts of the Milky Way, where the team suspects there may be more such ancient stellar survivors.

“These oldest stars should definitely be there, given what we know of galaxy formation,” says MIT professor of physics Anna Frebel. “They are part of our cosmic family tree. And we now have a new way to find them.”

As they uncover similar SASS stars, the researchers hope to use them as analogs of ultrafaint dwarf galaxies, which are thought to be some of the universe’s surviving first galaxies. Such galaxies are still intact today but are too distant and faint for astronomers to study in depth. As SASS stars may have once belonged to similarly primitive dwarf galaxies but are in the Milky Way and as such much closer, they could be an accessible key to understanding the evolution of ultrafaint dwarf galaxies.

“Now we can look for more analogs in the Milky Way, that are much brighter, and study their chemical evolution without having to chase these extremely faint stars,” Frebel says.

She and her colleagues have published their findings today in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS). The study’s co-authors are Mohammad Mardini, at Zarqa University, in Jordan; Hillary Andales ’23; and current MIT undergraduates Ananda Santos and Casey Fienberg.

Stellar frontier

The team’s discoveries grew out of a classroom concept. During the 2022 fall semester, Frebel launched a new course, 8.S30 (Observational Stellar Archaeology), in which students learned techniques for analyzing ancient stars and then applied those tools to stars that had never been studied before, to determine their origins.

“While most of our classes are taught from the ground up, this class immediately put us at the frontier of research in astrophysics,” Andales says.

The students worked from star data collected by Frebel over the years from the 6.5-meter Magellan-Clay telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory. She keeps hard copies of the data in a large binder in her office, which the students combed through to look for stars of interest.

In particular, they were searching ancient stars that formed soon after the Big Bang, which occurred 13.8 billion years ago. At this time, the universe was made mostly of hydrogen and helium and very low abundances of other chemical elements, such as strontium and barium. So, the students looked through Frebel’s binder for stars with spectra, or measurements of starlight, that indicated low abundances of strontium and barium.

Their search narrowed in on three stars that were originally observed by the Magellan telescope between 2013 and 2014. Astronomers never followed up on these particular stars to interpret their spectra and deduce their origins. They were, then, perfect candidates for the students in Frebel’s class.

The students learned how to characterize a star in order to prepare for the analysis of the spectra for each of the three stars. They were able to determine the chemical composition of each one with various stellar models. The intensity of a particular feature in the stellar spectrum, corresponding to a specific wavelength of light, corresponds to a particular abundance of a specific element.

After finalizing their analysis, the students were able to confidently conclude that the three stars did hold very low abundances of strontium, barium, and other elements such as iron, compared to their reference star — our own sun. In fact, one star contained less than 1/10,000 the amount of iron to helium compared to the sun today.

“It took a lot of hours staring at a computer, and a lot of debugging, frantically texting and emailing each other to figure this out,” Santos recalls. “It was a big learning curve, and a special experience.”

“On the run”

The stars’ low chemical abundance did hint that they originally formed 12 to 13 billion years ago. In fact, their low chemical signatures were similar to what astronomers had previously measured for some ancient, ultrafaint dwarf galaxies. Did the team’s stars originate in similar galaxies? And how did they come to be in the Milky Way?

On a hunch, the scientists checked out the stars’ orbital patterns and how they move across the sky. The three stars are in different locations throughout the Milky Way’s halo and are estimated to be about 30,000 light years from Earth. (For reference, the disk of the Milky Way spans 100,000 light years across.)

As they retraced each star’s motion about the galactic center using observations from the Gaia astrometric satellite, the team noticed a curious thing: Relative to most of the stars in the main disk, which move like cars on a racetrack, all three stars seemed to be going the wrong way. In astronomy, this is known as “retrograde motion” and is a tipoff that an object was once “accreted,” or drawn in from elsewhere.

“The only way you can have stars going the wrong way from the rest of the gang is if you threw them in the wrong way,” Frebel says.

The fact that these three stars were orbiting in completely different ways from the rest of the galactic disk and even the halo, combined with the fact that they held low chemical abundances, made a strong case that the stars were indeed ancient and once belonged to older, smaller dwarf galaxies that fell into the Milky Way at random angles and continued their stubborn trajectories billions of years later.

Frebel, curious as to whether retrograde motion was a feature of other ancient stars in the halo that astronomers previously analyzed, looked through the scientific literature and found 65 other stars, also with low strontium and barium abundances, that appeared to also be going against the galactic flow.

“Interestingly they’re all quite fast — hundreds of kilometers per second, going the wrong way,” Frebel says. “They’re on the run! We don’t know why that’s the case, but it was the piece to the puzzle that we needed, and that I didn’t quite anticipate when we started.”

The team is eager to search out other ancient SASS stars, and they now have a relatively simple recipe to do so: First, look for stars with low chemical abundances, and then track their orbital patterns for signs of retrograde motion. Of the more than 400 billion stars in the Milky Way, they anticipate that the method will turn up a small but significant number of the universe’s oldest stars.

Frebel plans to relaunch the class this fall, and looks back at that first course, and the three students who took their results through to publication, with admiration and gratitude.

“It’s been awesome to work with three women undergrads. That’s a first for me,” she says. “It’s really an example of the MIT way. We do. And whoever says, ‘I want to participate,’ they can do that, and good things happen.”

This research was supported, in part, by the National Science Foundation.

[berryblu-soda]

Seedling is such an interesting little story that i love, but i´d be lying if it wasnt almost completely sprouted (hehe) from the visual of those character duos that are a small child + big scary looking creature who acts as their guard, top tier trope frfr

(also huge shoutout to @ashrayus for hearing me out and adding onto the rambles so long ago, bestie the robot story wasnt working, we got plants now 🌱)

[badolmen]

*leaves a comment on every single chapter of a fic as I read it* *author replies to every single comment with increasing giddiness and excitement*

This is good. I’m getting a good grade in fic reader. This is both something that is normal to want and possible to achieve.

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[catboyfurina]

my early childhood education class is really driving home the developmental in developmental disability.... like i knew thats what adhd is classified as but they just keep dropping skill after skill that are standard for Small Children that i do not have D:

[dataly-data-science]

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[mvishnukumar]

Is it possible to transition to a data scientist from a non-tech background at the age of 28?

Hi,

You can certainly shift to become a data scientist from a nontechnical background at 28. As a matter of fact, very many do. Most data scientists have actually shifted to this field from different academic and professional backgrounds, with some of them having changed careers even in their midlife years. 

Build a Strong Foundation:

Devour some of the core knowledge about statistics, programming, and data analysis. Online classes, bootcamps—those are good and many, many convenient resources. Give it a whirl with Coursera and Lejhro for specific courses related to data science, machine learning and programming languages like Python and R.

A data scientist needs to be proficient in at least one or two programming languages. Python is the most used language for data science, for it is simple, and it has many libraries. R is another language that might come in handy for a data scientist, mostly in cases connected with statistical analysis. The study of manipulation libraries for study data and visualization tools includes Pandas for Python and Matplotlib and Seaborn for data, respectively.

Develop Analytical Skills:

The field of data science includes much analytics and statistics. Probability, hypothesis testing, regression analysis would be essential. These skills will help you derive meaningful information out of the data and also allow you to use statistical methods for real-world problems.

Practical experience is very important in the field of data science. In order to gain experience, one might work on personal projects or contribute to open-source projects in the same field. For instance, data analysis on publicly available datasets, machine learning, and creating models to solve particular problems, all these steps help to make the field more aware of skills with one's profile.

Though formal education in data science is by no means a requirement, earning a degree or certification in the discipline you are considering gives you great credibility. Many reputed universities and institutions offer courses on data science, machine learning, and analytics.

Connect with professionals in the same field: try to be part of communities around data science and attend events as well. You would be able to find these opportunities through networking and mentoring on platforms like LinkedIn, Kaggle, and local meetups. This will keep you abreast of the latest developments in this exciting area of research and help you land job opportunities while getting support.

Look out for entry-level job opportunities or internships in the field of data science; this, in effect, would be a great way to exercise your acquired experience so far. Such positions will easily expose one to a real-world problem related to data and allow seizing the occasion to develop practical skills. These might be entry-level positions, such as data analysts or junior data scientists, to begin with.

Stay Current with Industry Trends: Data science keeps on evolving with new techniques, tools, and technologies. Keep up to date with the latest trends and developments in the industry by reading blogs and research papers online and through courses.

Conclusion: 

It is definitely possible to move into a data scientist role if one belongs to a non-tech profile and is eyeing this target at the age of 28. Proper approach in building the base of strong, relevant skills, gaining practical experience, and networking with industry professionals helps a lot in being successful in the transition. This is because data science as a field is more about skills and the ability to solve problems, which opens its doors to people from different backgrounds.