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Make Data Work
September 11, 2018: Training & Tutorials
September 12–13, 2018: Keynotes & Sessions
New York, NY

In-Person Training
Expand your data science and machine learning skills with Python, R, SQL, Spark, and TensorFlow

Ian Cook (Cloudera)
9:00am–5:00pm Tuesday, 09/11/2018
Location: 1A 01/02 Level: Beginner
Average rating: ****.
(4.86, 7 ratings)

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Advancing your career in data science requires learning new languages and frameworks—but learners face an overwhelming array of choices, each with different syntaxes, conventions, and terminology. Ian Cook simplifies the learning process by elucidating the abstractions common to these systems. Through hands-on exercises, you'll overcome obstacles to getting started using new tools.

What you'll learn, and how you can apply it

  • Understand the fundamental abstractions common to data science and machine learning systems
  • Learn how to implement equivalent workflows using Python, R, SQL, Spark, and TensorFlow and overcome the obstacles to getting started

This training is for you because...

  • You want to expand your data science and machine learning skills without getting overwhelmed.

Prerequisites:

  • A basic knowledge of Python or R

Hardware and/or installation requirements:

  • A laptop or a high-resolution tablet with keyboard with a recently updated web browser installed (No locally installed software or packages are required. This training uses Cloudera Data Science Workbench (CDSW).)

Python and R are the leading open source languages for data science and machine learning, but getting comfortable with both of these languages requires grappling with different syntaxes, conventions, and terminology. Pairs of ostensibly comparable packages from PyPI and CRAN often have fundamentally different interfaces, and APIs connecting Python and R to the same external systems are often incongruous. Furthermore, when data scientists attempt to scale workflows from smaller local datasets to larger distributed datasets, they must contend with additional frameworks and interfaces with idiosyncrasies beyond those in the core Python and R ecosystems. But these differences belie a set of fundamental abstractions common to these systems.

Ian Cook illuminates the underlying commonalities of these systems through intuitive explanations and straightforward demonstrations. You’ll learn how:

  • The two-dimensional data structures familiar to data scientists—including SQL tables, NumPy arrays, pandas DataFrames, R data frames, Spark DataFrames, and TensorFlow datasets—are all implementations of the same abstract concept, with only a few important differences.
  • Popular data manipulation interfaces—including SQL, pandas, dplyr, and the Spark DataFrame API—are all based on the same set of relational operations.
  • Machine learning workflows implemented using popular packages and frameworks—including scikit-learn, the caret package for R, Spark MLlib, and the TensorFlow Estimator API—all follow the same fundamental steps: input training data, define features and labels, train model, evaluate model, and make predictions.

By exploring and running Python and R code in Cloudera Data Science Workbench (CDSW), you’ll gain familiarity with these these two languages and their ecosystems of data science tools, plus SQL, Spark, and TensorFlow. By practicing on sets of equivalent data science and machine learning workflows implemented using these different languages and frameworks, you’ll overcome the obstacles to getting started using these tools.

About your instructor

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Ian Cook is a data scientist at Cloudera and the author of several R packages, including implyr. Previously, he was a data scientist at TIBCO and a statistical software developer at AMD. Ian is a cofounder of Research Triangle Analysts, the largest data science meetup group in the Raleigh, North Carolina, area, where he lives with his wife and two young children. He holds an MS in statistics from Lehigh University and a BS in applied mathematics from Stony Brook University.

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Vasan Sivaraman | SVP
09/17/2018 5:47am EDT

Great class! Highly recommend for anyone in or planning to get into Data Science. Good foundational class. Ian was very knowledgeable in the material and delivered the content in an easy-to-understand format.

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Ian Cook | DATA SCIENTIST
08/24/2018 10:44am EDT

Hi Yogesh, Yes, the first half of this training will be about data manipulation. (The second half will be about machine learning.) I’ll show examples of data manipulation tasks in Python using pandas, and I’ll show how to extend those to larger datasets using PySpark and some other tools. I’ll do the same for R (using dplyr, sparklyr, and other packages). If you’re primarily interested in Python, you can focus more on the Python examples. I’ll also show that once you know how to do these tasks in one language or framework (even SQL) it’s surprisingly easy to do it in others when you look past the syntax differences and see the underlying commonalities.

Yogesh Sharma | PROCUREMENT DATA ANALYST
08/24/2018 9:57am EDT

Hi, Does this course cover the data manipulation (data cleaning) using python?