Experimental Design for Data Analysis

This course is a part of Data Analytics Literacy, a 6-course Paths series from Pluralsight.

Providing crisp, clear, actionable points-of-view to senior executives is becoming an increasingly important role of data scientists and data professionals these days. Now, a point-of-view must represent a hypothesis, ideally backed by data. In this course, Experimental Design for Data Analysis, you will gain the ability to construct such hypotheses from data and use rigorous frameworks to test whether they hold true. First, you will learn how inferential statistics and hypothesis testing form the basis of data modeling and machine learning. Next, you will discover how the process of building machine learning models is akin to that of designing an experiment and how training and validation techniques help rigorously evaluate the results of such experiments. Then, you will round out the course by studying various forms of cross-validation, including both singular and iterative techniques to cope with independent, identically distributed data and grouped data. Finally, you will also learn how you can refine your models using these techniques with hyperparameter tuning. When you’re finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge to build and evaluate models, specifically including machine learning models, using rigorous cross-validation frameworks and hyperparameter tuning.