JPMC Machine Learning Essentials: Phase / Module 1 – Cohort 4

This Data Analytics master class is designed for intelligent IT Professionals who aspire to learn core analytics principles to be used in a practical sense.  This course serves as the foundation to mastering Machine Learning. The applications of data analytics are broad. Analyzing big data can optimize efficiency in many different industries. Improving performance enables businesses to succeed in an increasingly competitive world. One of the earliest adopters is the financial industry. Data analytics has an important role in the banking and finance industries, used to predict market trends and assess risk. Credit scores are an example of data analytics that affects everyone. These scores use many data points to determine lending risk. Data analytics is also used to detect and prevent fraud to improve efficiency and reduce risk for financial institutions. The use of data analytics goes beyond maximizing profits and ROI, however. Data analytics can provide critical information for healthcare (health informatics), crime prevention, and environmental protection. These applications of data analytics use these techniques to improve our world. Though statistics and data analysis have always been used in scientific research, advanced analytic techniques and big data allow for many new insights.