The Best Data Science Theory Guide

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COURSE BREAKDOWN

Java Data Science

Part 1: K-Nearest Neighbors Theory

What is the K-NN algorithm?
What can the K-NN algorithm used for?
How does the K-NN algorithm work? (What does the K stand for?)
Why does K-NN matter?
What are the pros and cons?
What equations do we need to know to build the K-NN algorithm?
What is Euclidean distance?
What is normalizing?
What is a ‘vote’ in K-NN?

Part 2: Decision Trees Theory

What are decision trees?
What is ‘best feature to split on’?
What is Information Gain?
How is Information Gain used in decision trees?
What is entropy?

Part 3: Neural Networks Theory

What are neural networks?
What are the parts to a neural network?
What are neural networks used for?
What projects can we build?
What is a ‘weight’?
What do ‘target result’ and ‘error’ mean in neural networks?
What is an activation function?
What is a step function?
What is an epoch?
What is learning rate?
What is a linear classifier?
What is a binary classifier?
What is supervised learning vs unsupervised learning?
What is the perceptron algorithm?

Part 4: Data Classification and Naive Bayes Theory

What is Sentiment Classification?
What is Bayes Theorem?
What is Naive Bayes?
What are the types of Naive Bayes classifiers?
What does the ‘Naive’ mean?
What is the Bag of Words model?
What is data smoothing?
What is prior probability distribution?
How do you avoid underflow errors?
And more!

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Alexandra Kropf

Alexandra Kropf is Mammoth Interactive's CLO and a software developer with extensive experience in full-stack web development, app development and game development. She has helped produce courses for Mammoth Interactive since 2016, including the Coding Interview series in Java, JavaScript, C++, C#, Python and Swift.

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