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Guerrilla Data Analytics (GDAT)\{\Large How to Get Beyond Monitoring}

From Linear Regression to Machine Learning Complete with a review of the R programming languageand application of R statistical tools

Instructor: Dr. Neil J. Gunther

Performance Dynamics Educational Services

Data comes from the Devil. Therefore, you need to know how to waterboard it with the right statistical tools to get it to tell you the truth.

Contents

1 Purpose
2 Certification
3 Course Goals
4 Dates and Registration
5 Who Should Attend?
6 Course Outline
6.1 GDAT Day 1
6.2 GDAT Day 2
6.3 GDAT Day 3
6.4 GDAT Day 4
6.5 GDAT Day 5
7 Registration and Materials
7.1 Registration
7.2 Textbook
7.3 Location
7.4 Meals

1 Purpose

You already understand the essential concepts of computer system capacity planning (e.g., Level II certification) and you've collected cubic light years of performance data. But now you realize that's not sufficient. Why? Because raw performance data is not the same thing as performance information. To extract the pertinent information, you need to transform your data. And that's precisely what this class teaches you. Moreover, the data analysis techniques we present are general purpose, and therefore not tied to any particular computing platform or data collection tools.Although there are no prerequisites, it is strongly recommended that you take the Level II GCaP classbefore embarking on the this Level III GDAT class.

2 Certification

This class (GDAT) corresponds to Guerrilla Capacity Planner: Level III certification, where the levels are defined as:

  1. Entry level for newbies, e.g., Guerrilla Boot Camp (GBOOT), which is usually offerred on a demand basis only. Please contact Performance Dynamicsif you would like to take this Level I class.
  2. Exposure to a wide variety of computer systems capacity planning concepts, methods, and tools that can be adapted opportunistically to support the needs of enterprise-level platform-independent performance management.
  3. Detailed study of a particular capacity planning technique or performance analysis tool, e.g., Guerrilla Data Analysis Techniques (GDAT). A printed certificate reflecting the level of achievement is awarded to each attendee at the completion of the respective course.

3 Course Goals

After completing this course, students will know how to:

4 Dates and Registration

Check out the schedulefor dates and online registration.

5 Who Should Attend?

Computer system administrators, mainframe system operators, network system administrators, performance engineers, test engineers, IT consultants, data center managers, Devops, IT technical managers and software development engineers. This course does not assume any prior experience with performance analysis methods, but a working knowledge of computer systems and high school algebra is helpful.

6 Course Outline

Class typically begins at 9am and the instructor is generally available until 9pm each day.
Many class discussions have been known to continue over dinner.
A morning break of half an hour is serviced around 10:30am
Seated lunch service is provided from Noon until 1pm.
A serviced afternoon break of half an hour occurs around 3:00pm
A large number of practical exercises (with solutions in R) will be given and discussed throughout the five days. You are encouraged to bring a laptop computer.

6.1 GDAT Day 1

How to Detect Bad Data

Introduction to R

Expressing Measurement Error

6.2 GDAT Day 2

Review of Elementary Statistics

Histograms and Distributions

6.3 GDAT Day 3

Regression Analysis

Multivariate and Nonlinear Regression

6.4 GDAT Day 4

Application Scalability Analysis

Applying Regression Analysis to Web Traffic

6.5 GDAT Day 5

Taming the Data Torrent

Machine Learning for CaP

Wild (Not Mild) Distributions

Review and Class Discussion

7 Registration and Materials

7.1 Registration

All registration is now done online. Please consult the Guerrilla Training Schedulefor current pricing and conditions.

7.2 Textbook

There is no separate Guerilla book for the GDAT course but, this reading listincludes books that are referred to during the class.

7.3 Location

See the Guerrilla Training Schedulefor details about the hotel location and room reservations. The city of Pleasanton is right next door to Castro Valley.

7.4 Meals

Lunch is provided each day.