| Detailed information | 
                    
                                
                    
                      | Original study plan | 
                      Master's programme Bioinformatics 2016W | 
                    
                      
                    
                      | Objectives | 
                      Data analysis and visualization are essential to most fields in science and engineering. The goal of this course is to provide students with a basic tool chest of methods for pre-processing, analyzing, and visualizing scientific data.
 | 
                    
                      
                    
                      | Subject | 
                      - Scatter plots and box plots
 - Basics of classification
 - Basics of regression
 - ANOVA
 - Clustering
 - Principal component analysis (+ visualization, including spectral maps)
 - Singular value decomposition (+ visualization)
 - Matrix factorization (+ visualization)
 - Independent component analysis
 
  | 
                    
                                                            
                    
                      | Criteria for evaluation | 
                      The final grade is based on a combined assessment of homework and a final exam.
 | 
                    
                       
                    
                                 
                    
                      | Methods | 
                      Slide presentations complemented by online demos and examples presented on the blackboard; demos are based on the scientific computing platform R
 | 
                    
                                     
                    
                      | Language | 
                      English | 
                    
                      
                    
                      | Study material | 
                      Electronic course material and example code are made available for download 
 | 
                    
                      
                    
                      | Changing subject? | 
                      No | 
                    
                                        
                      | Corresponding lecture | 
                      675MLDAMDAK13: KV Basic Methods of Data Analysis (3 ECTS)
 | 
                    
    
                                        
                      | Earlier variants | 
                      They also cover the requirements of the curriculum (from - to) 675MLDAMDAK13: KV Basic Methods of Data Analysis (2013W-2016S)
  |