Questions for Discussion
1.How do you describe the importance of data in analytics? Can we think of analytics without data? Explain.
Exercises
Teradata University and Other Hands-on Exercises
4. Go to UCI data repository (archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets.html) and identify a large data set that contains both numeric and nominal values. Using Microsoft Excel or any other statistical software:
Calculate and interpret central tendency measures for each and every variable.
Calculate and interpret the dispersion/spread measures for each and every variable.
12. Go to data.gov—a U.S. government–sponsored data portal that has a very large number of data sets on a wide variety of topics ranging from healthcare to education, climate to public safety. Pick a topic that you are most passionate about. Go through the topic-specific information and explanation provided on the site. Explore the possibilities of downloading the data, and use your favorite data visualization tool to create your own meaningful information and visualizations.