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Ninety percent of all currently available data, globally, has been generated over the last two years.1
By simply moving through the daily motions of our modern lives, we are all producing digital
traces about our interactions with both technology and each other - making it possible for
large-scale, high-impact social research to be conducted by those equipped with the skills
and expertise needed to dissect that data. Personal privacy can be preserved in a fashion that
nonetheless allows data to be harnessed for better commutes to work, better management of
health, better access to financial resources, and other positive societal improvements.
Businesses worldwide have realized that harnessing, processing, and analyzing the digital
information produced by individuals, organizations and institutions should be a fundamental
starting point for intelligent decision-making.
Considering that only 0.5% of all currently available data is analyzed and used, theres a
massive opportunity waiting to be taken.
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Recommended reading:
Social Physics: How Social Networks Can Make Us Smarter, Alex Pentland
Outcome:
Students who achieve a final mark of over 70% will earn an MIT certificate in
Computational Data Analysis.
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Dave Shrier
Managing Director of MIT Connection Science. Dave leads other new
initiatives for MIT, advises the European Commission on commercializing
innovation and building regional innovation capacity, and counsels
leadership at private and public companies on growth strategies. He has
also driven over $8.5 billion of growth initiatives for various Fortune 1000
companies, and has served as CEO or COO/CFO for 6 privately funded
companies.
Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye
Postdoctoral researcher in computational privacy at Harvard IQSS
currently working with Professor Latanya Sweeney and Professor Gary
King. Yves-Alexandre received his PhD at the MIT Media Lab under the
supervision of Prof. Alex SandyPentland, and his research aims at
understanding how the unicity of human behavior impacts the privacy of
individuals in large-scale metadata datasets.
Xiaowen Dong
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Human Dynamics Group at MIT Media
Lab. Xiaowens research focuses on emerging signal processing and
machine learning techniques on graphs, and their applications to the
understanding of human behavior, decision making and societal changes.
Prior to joining MIT, he received his PhD degree in Signal Processing from
the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Cam Kerry
Public policy lawyer at Sidley Austin, and speaker and writer on Public
Policy & Technology at Brookings Institution and MIT, where he applies
his experience as a government thought leader on technology and public
policy to current issues in these areas. He is the former General Counsel
for the U.S. Department of Commerce. His work focuses especially on
privacy and information security, and the application of privacy principles
to fast-changing global business and technology.
Arek Stopczynski
Data Scientist currently working in People Analytics, and a Postdoctoral
Fellow at both the Technical University of Denmark and at MIT Media
Lab (Human Dynamics Group). Arek is particularly interested in mobile
technologies, and how they can be used to learn more about human
beings.
Over and above your video lectures from these MIT instructors, youll also engage with
your course material and fellow students via intensive, tutor-led small groups and your
online discussion forum. Youll receive support from your dedicated Performance Coach
throughout to keep you on track with your studies.
ORIENTATION MODULE:
MODULE 3:
R
evisit basic statistical modelling and analysis
methods, and receive an introduction to visual
data interrogation methods.
MODULE 1:
P
ractically manipulate and explore data using
Python as a simple first-cut analysis.
MODULE 4:
PEER NETWORKS
E
ngage with basic concepts of peer networks
and network theory.
D
emonstrate the ability to visually represent and
measure peer networks.
A
pply graph partitioning algorithms to real world
data sets.
MODULE 5:
MODULE 2:
SOURCES OF DATA
P
rogress to second-order analysis and
discover the difference between correlation
and causation, as well as techniques for
differentiating between them.
F
ind out about the different phases in the
analytical approach.
E
xplore the Bandicoot open source Python
toolbox and discover how to leverage Bandicoot
behavioral indicators.
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MODULE 8:
MODULE 6:
DATA IN ACTION
E
xamine problem set examples that look
at the application of data in context and
showcase data policy in action.
R
ecommend interventions to be taken
as a result of your analysis in module
7, and present your final analysis and
recommendations in an appropriate format.
MODULE 7:
APPLICATION OF BIG DATA IN
INDUSTRY
Investigate problem set examples that
cover application of big data insights in
Healthcare, HR tech, Telco and Marketing.
Learn about fascinating use case examples,
such as:
> research from MIT that was able to
predict within 70% accuracy whether
a specific area in London would be
a crime hotspot using anonymized
human behavioral data;
> the use of mobile phone data to model
the spread of malaria, and
> using mobility patterns of purchasing
behavior to predict financial behavior
and risk profiles.
Combine what you have learned in modules
1 to 6 to conduct a full cycle analysis on a
large data set.
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Analysis of Big Data is increasingly about finding connections: connections with the
people around you, and connections between peoples behavior and outcomes. You
can see this in all sorts of places. For instance, one type of Big Data and connection
analysis concerns financial data. Not just the flash crash or the Great Recession, but
also all the other sorts of bubbles that occur. What these are, are systems of people,
communications, and decisions that go badly awry. Big Data shows us the connections
that cause these events. Big data gives us the possibility of understanding how these
systems of people and machines work, and whether theyre stable.
A L E X S A N DY PE N TLA N D - F OUN DIN G F A CU LTY D I R ECTOR OF MI T CONNECTI ON SCI ENCE; COU R SE I NSTR U C T O R
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