Additional topics for new Advanced Analytics w/Python course

In Summer I, 2021 (May-June), I started offering a new special topics course called Advanced Analytics with Python (ST: MIS 4900/6900). I’ve been wanting to do this for a while as the number of topics that I want to cover in the Practical Computing for Data Analytics course keeps growing but the number of weeks in a semester does not. The topics covered are:

  • predictive modeling with scikit-learn (we barely touch on this in pcda class)

  • advanced regression modeling (lasso, ridge, and friends)

  • using Excel and Python together

  • datetime and occupancy analysis

  • web scraping

  • interactive data viz

  • simulation modeling with Python

  • geocomputation with Python

  • various software engineering topics relevant to analytics work

There are some topics that everyone does and then you get to choose from the others based on your interests.

You can find the course website at: