Data Science for Executives Training Course

This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (online or onsite) is aimed at data scientists and developers who wish to learn and build their careers in Data Science using Kaggle.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Learn about data science and machine learning.
• Explore data analytics.
• Learn about Kaggle and how it works.

This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (online or onsite) is aimed at data scientists and developers who wish to use Modin to build and implement parallel computations with Pandas for faster data analysis.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Set up the necessary environment to start developing Pandas workflows at scale with Modin.
• Understand the features, architecture, and advantages of Modin.
• Know the differences between Modin, Dask, and Ray.
• Perform Pandas operations faster with Modin.
• Implement the entire Pandas API and functions.

This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (online or onsite) is aimed at data scientists and developers who wish to use RAPIDS to build GPU-accelerated data pipelines, workflows, and visualizations, applying machine learning algorithms, such as XGBoost, cuML, etc.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Set up the necessary development environment to build data models with NVIDIA RAPIDS.
• Understand the features, components, and advantages of RAPIDS.
• Leverage GPUs to accelerate end-to-end data and analytics pipelines.
• Implement GPU-accelerated data preparation and ETL with cuDF and Apache Arrow.
• Learn how to perform machine learning tasks with XGBoost and cuML algorithms.
• Build data visualizations and execute graph analysis with cuXfilter and cuGraph.

This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (online or onsite) is aimed at data scientists who wish to use the Anaconda ecosystem to capture, manage, and deploy packages and data analysis workflows in a single platform.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Anaconda components and libraries.
• Understand the core concepts, features, and benefits of Anaconda.
• Manage packages, environments, and channels using Anaconda Navigator.
• Use Conda, R, and Python packages for data science and machine learning.
• Get to know some practical use cases and techniques for managing multiple data environments.

This is a 5 day introduction to Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (AI).

The course is delivered with examples and exercises using Python 

Overview

Communications service providers (CSP) are facing pressure to reduce costs and maximize average revenue per user (ARPU), while ensuring an excellent customer experience, but data volumes keep growing. Global mobile data traffic will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 78 percent to 2016, reaching 10.8 exabytes per month.

Meanwhile, CSPs are generating large volumes of data, including call detail records (CDR), network data and customer data. Companies that fully exploit this data gain a competitive edge. According to a recent survey by The Economist Intelligence Unit, companies that use data-directed decision-making enjoy a 5-6% boost in productivity. Yet 53% of companies leverage only half of their valuable data, and one-fourth of respondents noted that vast quantities of useful data go untapped. The data volumes are so high that manual analysis is impossible, and most legacy software systems can’t keep up, resulting in valuable data being discarded or ignored.

With Big Data & Analytics’ high-speed, scalable big data software, CSPs can mine all their data for better decision making in less time. Different Big Data products and techniques provide an end-to-end software platform for collecting, preparing, analyzing and presenting insights from big data. Application areas include network performance monitoring, fraud detection, customer churn detection and credit risk analysis. Big Data & Analytics products scale to handle terabytes of data but implementation of such tools need new kind of cloud based database system like Hadoop or massive scale parallel computing processor ( KPU etc.)

This course work on Big Data BI for Telco covers all the emerging new areas in which CSPs are investing for productivity gain and opening up new business revenue stream. The course will provide a complete 360 degree over view of Big Data BI in Telco so that decision makers and managers can have a very wide and comprehensive overview of possibilities of Big Data BI in Telco for productivity and revenue gain.

Course objectives

Main objective of the course is to introduce new Big Data business intelligence techniques in 4 sectors of Telecom Business (Marketing/Sales, Network Operation, Financial operation and Customer Relation Management). Students will be introduced to following:

• Introduction to Big Data-what is 4Vs (volume, velocity, variety and veracity) in Big Data- Generation, extraction and management from Telco perspective
• How Big Data analytic differs from legacy data analytic
• In-house justification of Big Data -Telco perspective
• Introduction to Hadoop Ecosystem- familiarity with all Hadoop tools like Hive, Pig, SPARC –when and how they are used to solve Big Data problem
• How Big Data is extracted to analyze for analytics tool-how Business Analysis’s can reduce their pain points of collection and analysis of data through integrated Hadoop dashboard approach
• Basic introduction of Insight analytics, visualization analytics and predictive analytics for Telco
• Customer Churn analytic and Big Data-how Big Data analytic can reduce customer churn and customer dissatisfaction in Telco-case studies
• Network failure and service failure analytics from Network meta-data and IPDR
• Financial analysis-fraud, wastage and ROI estimation from sales and operational data
• Customer acquisition problem-Target marketing, customer segmentation and cross-sale from sales data
• Introduction and summary of all Big Data analytic products and where they fit into Telco analytic space
• Conclusion-how to take step-by-step approach to introduce Big Data Business Intelligence in your organization

Target Audience

• Network operation, Financial Managers, CRM managers and top IT managers in Telco CIO office.
• Business Analysts in Telco
• CFO office managers/analysts
• Operational managers
• QA managers

Participants who complete this training will gain a practical, real-world understanding of Data Science and its related technologies, methodologies and tools.

Participants will have the opportunity to put this knowledge into practice through hands-on exercises. Group interaction and instructor feedback make up an important component of the class.

The course starts with an introduction to elemental concepts of Data Science, then progresses into the tools and methodologies used in Data Science.

Audience

• Developers
• Technical analysts
• IT consultants

Format of the Course

• Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

Note

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

Big data is data sets that are so voluminous and complex that traditional data processing application software are inadequate to deal with them. Big data challenges include capturing data, data storage, data analysis, search, sharing, transfer, visualization, querying, updating and information privacy.

This course is meant for Marketing Sales Professionals who are intending to get deeper into application of data science in Marketing/ Sales. The course provides
detailed coverage of different data science techniques used for “upsale”, “cross-sale”, market segmentation, branding and CLV.

Difference of Marketing and Sales - How is that sales and marketing are different?

In very simplewords, sales can be termed as a process which focuses or targets on individuals or small groups. Marketing on the other hand targets a larger group or the general public. Marketing includes research (identifying needs of the customer), development of products (producing innovative products) and promoting the product (through advertisements) and create awareness about the product among the consumers. As such marketing means generating leads or prospects. Once the product is out in the market, it is the task of the sales person to persuade the customer to buy the product. Sales means converting the leads or prospects into purchases and orders, while marketing is aimed at longer terms, sales pertain to shorter goals.

Data science is the application of statistical analysis, machine learning, data visualization and programming for the purpose of understanding and interpreting real-world data. F# is a well suited programming language for data science as it combines efficient execution, REPL-scripting, powerful libraries and scalable data integration.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to use F# to solve a series of real-world data science problems.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Use F#'s integrated data science packages
• Use F# to interoperate with other languages and platforms, including Excel, R, Matlab, and Python
• Use the Deedle package to solve time series problems
• Carry out advanced analysis with minimal lines of production-quality code
• Understand how functional programming is a natural fit for scientific and big data computations
• Access and visualize data with F#
• Apply F# for machine learning

Explore solutions for problems in domains such as business intelligence and social gaming

Audience

• Developers
• Data scientists

Format of the course

• Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at professionals who wish to start a career in Data Science.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Python and MySql.
• Understand what Data Science is and how it can add value to virtually any business. 
• Learn the fundamentals of coding in Python
• Learn supervised and unsupervised Machine Learning techniques, and how to implement them and interpret the results.  

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (online or onsite) introduces the idea of collaborative development in data science and demonstrates how to use Jupyter to track and participate as a team in the "life cycle of a computational idea".  It walks participants through the creation of a sample data science project based on top of the Jupyter ecosystem.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Jupyter, including the creation and integration of a team repository on Git.
• Use Jupyter features such as extensions, interactive widgets, multiuser mode and more to enable project collaboraton.
• Create, share and organize Jupyter Notebooks with team members.
• Choose from Scala, Python, R, to write and execute code against big data systems such as Apache Spark, all through the Jupyter interface.

KNIME Analytics Platform is a leading open source option for data-driven innovation, helping you discover the potential hidden in your data, mine for fresh insights, or predict new futures. With more than 1000 modules, hundreds of ready-to-run examples, a comprehensive range of integrated tools, and the widest choice of advanced algorithms available, KNIME Analytics Platform is the perfect toolbox for any data scientist and business analyst.

This course for KNIME Analytics Platform is an ideal opportunity for beginners, advanced users and KNIME experts to be introduced to KNIME, to learn how to use it more effectively, and how to create clear, comprehensive reports based on KNIME workflows

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at data professionals who wish to use KNIME to solve complex business needs.

It is targeted for the audience that doesn't know programming and intends to use cutting edge tools to implement analytics scenarios

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure KNIME.
• Build Data Science scenarios
• Train, test and validate models
• Implement end to end value chain of data science models

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course or to know more on this program, please contact us to arrange.

KNIME Server is the enterprise software for team-based collaboration, automation, management, and deployment of data science workflows as analytical applications and services.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Schedule analytics workflows to run automatically and give yourself more time to focus on data science.
• Control workflows to automate model management
• Scale and pin workflow execution with well provisioned, high performance server architecture which is configured to your specifications.
• Design, edit, and execute workflows on KNIME Server using the remote workflow editor and take advantage of well provisioned hardware in a secure environment.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course or to know more on this program, please contact us to arrange.

In the first part of this training, we cover the fundamentals of MATLAB and its function as both a language and a platform.  Included in this discussion is an introduction to MATLAB syntax, arrays and matrices, data visualization, script development, and object-oriented principles.

In the second part, we demonstrate how to use MATLAB for data mining, machine learning and predictive analytics. To provide participants with a clear and practical perspective of MATLAB's approach and power, we draw comparisons between using MATLAB and using other tools such as spreadsheets, C, C++, and Visual Basic.

In the third part of the training, participants learn how to streamline their work by automating their data processing and report generation.

Throughout the course, participants will put into practice the ideas learned through hands-on exercises in a lab environment. By the end of the training, participants will have a thorough grasp of MATLAB's capabilities and will be able to employ it for solving real-world data science problems as well as for streamlining their work through automation.

Assessments will be conducted throughout the course to gauge progress.

Format of the Course

• Course includes theoretical and practical exercises, including case discussions, sample code inspection, and hands-on implementation.

Note

• Practice sessions will be based on pre-arranged sample data report templates. If you have specific requirements, please contact us to arrange.