Corporate Finance Institute
Classification – Fundamentals & Practical Applications

Overview

Classification – Fundamentals & Practical Applications

Classification problems are one of the most common scenarios we face in data science. This course will help you understand and apply common algorithms to make predictions and drive decision-making in business.

Whether you’re an aspiring data scientist, studying analytics, or have a focus on business intelligence, this course will give you a comprehensive overview of classification problems, solutions, and interpretations.

A slide describing what classification is. Specifically that it splits targets into categories.

From Logistic Regression to KNN and SVM models, you’ll learn how to implement techniques in Excel and Python and how to create loops to run models in parallel. 

Since model evaluation is so important, we’ll dedicate a whole chapter to interpreting model outputs with evaluation metrics and the confusion matrix. With this, you’ll learn about false negatives, and false positives, and consider the impacts these may have on specific business scenarios.

Finally, we’ll give you a brief insight into more advanced classification techniques such as feature importance, SHAP values, and PDP plots.

A slide explaining decision trees, a type of classification model.

This image shows classification evaluation metrics generated in Python.

Who Should Take This Course?

Whether you’re an aspiring data scientist, studying analytics, or have a focus on business intelligence, this classification course will serve as your comprehensive introduction to this fascinating subject.

You’ll learn all the key terminology to allow you to talk data science with your teams, benign implementing analysis, and understand how data science can help your business.

Classification - Fundamentals & Practical Applications Learning Objectives

  • Distinguish between classic classification techniques including their implicit assumptions and practical use-cases
  • Perform simple logistic regression calculations in Excel & RegressIt
  • Create basic classification models in Python using statsmodels and sklearn modules
  • Evaluate and interpret the performance of classification model outputs and parameters
Classification - Fundamentals & Practical Applications
4.9
Led by Paul van Loon

Level 4

1h 28min

100% online and self-paced

Field of Study: Specialized Knowledge

NASBA CPE Credits: 2

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What You'll Learn

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This Course is Part of the Following Programs

Why stop here? Expand your skills and show your expertise with the professional certifications, specializations, and CPE credits you’re already on your way to earning.

FinTech Industry Professional (FTIP®)

  • Skills Learned Financial Technology Fundamentals, Data Science and Machine Learning, Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain
  • Career Prep Data Science and Machine Learning, Data Analyst, Business Analyst, Software Developer

What Our Members Say

Excellent
Great course, great material, great instructors, fantastic learning experience.

George Sifri

Good course to refresh some classification regression ideas
Practice in Phyton for this course is cumbersome

MATHIUS SERSEN

Excellent Course
Excellent Course with Simple Explanation

jacoub gultom

Very Informative
As in all courses from CFI I learned a lot of things I can apply at work the very next day

Scott LaBrec

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