Advanced Certification in

Data Science and Artificial

Intelligence
By IIT Madras Digital Skills Academy
 Table of Contents

1. About the Program

2. About IIT Madras Digital Skills Academy

3. About Intellipaat

4. Key Features

5. Career Support

6. Eligibility Criteria & Application Process

7. Learning Path

8. Course Advisor

9. Program Curriculum

10. Certification

11. Success Stories

12. Contact Us

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 About the Program
This Advanced Certification program in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
helps you master the skills looked for by top employers for the various Data
Science roles. This course will be delivered by top professors from IIT Madras and
subject matter experts from the industry. You will master skills like Python,
Machine Learning, Git, Advance Statistics, deploying machine learning models on
cloud, Artificial Intelligence concepts and more. By the end of this certification
course, you will receive career services from Intellipaat to help you get connected
with top MNCs.

Our Data Science and Artificial Intelligence course is an online training program
that aims to make you master all the basic and advanced level skills in the various
tools and technologies involved in the field of Data Science, Machine Learning,
Deep Learning, and Artificial Intelligence.

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 About IIT Madras Digital Skills Academy
IIT Madras Digital Skills Academy has initiated various programs in partnership
with NASSCOM. The courses offered by them aim to upskill millions of students
and professionals in trending technologies through a blend of theoretical and
hands-on knowledge and are taught by leading academicians.

Achievements of IIT Madras:

• NIRF Rank 1 for the last 3 years

• Ranked 50 in Asia by the QS World University Rankings in 2020
• Ranked 63 in Emerging Economic University Rankings in 2020

Upon the completion of this program, you will:

• Receive live lectures from IIT Madras & industry experts

• Receive an advanced certification in Data Science and AI from IIT Madras Digital
Skills Academy & Intellipaat
• Gain alumni status of IIT Madras Digital Skills Academy

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 About Intellipaat
Intellipaat is one of the leading online training providers with more than 600,000
learners across 53+ countries. We are on a mission to democratize education as
we believe that everyone has the right to quality education.

Our courses are delivered by subject matter experts from top MNCs and our
world-class pedagogy enables to quickly learn difficult topics in no time. Our 24/7
technical support and career services will help learners jump-start their careers in
their dream companies.

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Key Features

7 MONTHS OF LIVE 24/7 SUPPORT

CLASSES

20+ REAL-TIME 30+ CASE STUDIES

INDUSTRY
PROJECTS

CERTIFICATION PROGRAM CAREER SERVICES BY

FROM A TOP UNIVERSITY INTELLIPAAT

INDUSTRY-RECOGNIZED LEARN FROM IIT

CERTIFICATION EXPERTS

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 Career Services
Dedicated Learning Manager
Get mentored by experts, receive personalized feedback on your
performance, and clarify your doubts in no time

Personalized Industry Mentor

We match your profile with the right industry mentor based on your past
skills.Your mentor’s guidance will help you get prepared yourself for
your dream job

Mock Interviews
Mock interviews to make you prepare for cracking interviews by top employers

3 Guaranteed Interviews
Upon completion of the assignments and projects, we will help you in
Marketing your resume with our 400 + hiring partners which includes top
start-ups and MNCs.

Resume Preparation & LinkedIn Profile Building

Get assistance in creating a world-class resume from our career services
team

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 Eligibility Criteria & the Application Process
Those wishing to enroll in the Advanced Certification program in Data Science and
Artificial Intelligence will be required to follow the admission process mentioned
below.

Who Can Apply?

▪ Individuals with a keen interest to learn AI and Data Science

▪ IT professionals looking for a career transition as Data Scientists and AI Engineers

▪ Artificial Intelligence and Business Intelligence professionals

Application Process
The application process consists of three simple steps. Candidates have to
submit their application. An offer of admission will be made to the selected
candidates, and their application will be accepted upon the payment of the
admission fee.

SUBMIT APPLICATION
Tell us a bit about yourself and why you want to join

ADMISSION TEST & APPLICATION REVIEW

Clear the admission test and have a personal interview with our interview
panel

ADMISSION LETTER
Shortlisted candidates would be offered the admission letter

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 Learning Path

ELECTIVE COURSES
• Data Analysis with MS Excel
• Data Wrangling with SQL
• Natural Language Processing and its Applications

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Course Advisors & Faculty

Dr. Arun K. Tangirala

Professor, IIT Madras

Dr. Arun K. Tangirala, Ph.D. from University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada,

is an IIT Madras Professor with expertise in Analytical Chemistry and a keen
interest in the fields of Controller Performance Monitoring, Time-Frequency
Analysis of Processes, Multivariate Data Analysis, Fuel Cells, etc.

Dr. Nirav Bhatt

Assistant Professor, IIT Madras

Dr. Nirav Bhatt works as an Assistant Professor for Bio-Tech Department, IIT
Madras. He holds a Docteur es Science (DSc) from EPFL, Switzerland. His
research interests span the Modelling and Optimization of Biological
Networks, Machine Learning, and data analysis of engineering systems.

Prof. Babji Srinivasan

Associate Professor, IIT Madras

Prof. Babji Srinivasan is an Associate Professor for Applied Mechanics,

IITM. He earned his Ph.D. from Texas Tech University in 2011. His research
interests include Behavioral Informatics, Cognitive Systems Engineering and
Human Cyber-Physical Systems.

Madhu Babu Cherukuri

Sr. Data Scientist at Intel Corporation

He carries over 15 years of expertise in handling various analytics projects,

using several types of ML algorithms in multiple business domains. He also
comes with extensive knowledge in SAS, SQL, R, Python and is proficient in
Big Data Environment.

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 Vinayak Panchaman
Business Intelligence Consultant at IKEA

Vinayak has over 13+ years of experience and specializes in Data Modeling
, preparing KPIs, SQL query, Functional Dashboards with Qlik, Power BI,
Sentiment Analysis, etc along with holding a CSM (Certified Scrum Master)
certification.

Prof. SHANKAR NARASIMHAN

Professor, IITM

A fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engg.,his research area includes

data mining, process design & optimization, FDD etc. He has co-authored
several reconciliation papers, a book and a course ‘Data Science for
Engineers' on the NPTEL platform.

Mr. Suresh Ramadurai

DATA SCIENCE CONSULTANT

Spending 25 yrs in data science, he has excelled in driving profitable brands

using research & analytics in advertising , market research in companies like
JWT, IBM etc. An alumnus of IIT Delhi & IIM Bangalore, he currently teaches
analytics.

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Program Curriculum
Preparatory Classes:

Python & Linux – Basic Python libraries and functions will be taught to you
along with the fundamentals of Linux operating system.

Core Curriculum:
Module 1: Git
1.1 What is Version Control?

1.2 Types of Version Control System

1.3 Introduction to SVN

1.4 Introduction to Git

1.5 Git Lifecycle

1.6 Common Git commands

1.7 Working with branches in Git

1.8 Merging branches

1.9 Resolving merge conflicts

1.10 Git workflow

Module 2: Python with Data Science

2.1 Introduction to Data Science using Python

2.2 Python basic constructs

2.3 Statistics and probability

2.4 OOPs in Python

2.5 NumPy for mathematical computing

2.6 SciPy for scientific computing

2.7 Data manipulation

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 Module 3: Advanced Statistics
3.1 Central tendency

3.2 Variability

3.3 Hypothesis testing

3.4 Anova

3.5 Correlation

3.6 Regression

3.7 Probability definitions and notation

3.8 Joint probabilities

3.9 The sum rule, conditional probability, and the product rule

3.10 Bayes theorem

Module 4: Machine Learning & Prediction Algorithms

4.1 Machine learning using Python

4.2 Supervised learning

4.3 Unsupervised learning

4.4 Dimensionality reduction

4.5 Time-series forecasting

Module 5: Data Science at Scale with PySpark

5.1 Introduction to Big Data and Apache Spark

5.2 Apache Spark framework and RDDs

5.3 PySpark SQL and Data Frames

Module 6: AI & Deep Learning using TensorFlow

6.1 Introduction to Deep Learning and Neural Networks

6.2 Multi-layered Neural Networks

6.3 Artificial Neural Networks and various methods

6.4 Deep Learning libraries

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 Module 7: Deploying Machine Learning Models on Cloud (MLOps)
7.1 Need for MLOps

7.2 Deploying Machine learning programs in the production environment

7.3 Working with Jenkins & Docker for deploying Machine Learning solutions

Module 8: Data Visualization with Tableau

8.1 Introduction to data visualization

8.2 Architecture of Tableau

8.3 Working with metadata and data blending

8.4 Creation of sets

8.5 Working with filters

8.6 Organizing data and visual analytics

8.7 Working with mapping

8.8 Working with calculations and expressions

8.9 Working with parameters

8.10 Charts and graphs

8.11 Dashboards and stories

8.12 Tableau Prep

8.13 Integration of Tableau with R and Hadoop

Module 9: Data Science Capstone Project

In the Data Science Capstone project, you will use all the knowledge and skills you have

acquired throughout in this advanced certification program and gain industry experience in

the domain.

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Self-Paced Courses

Module 10: Data Analysis with MS Excel

10.1 Entering data

10.2 Referencing in formulas

10.3 Name range

10.4 Understanding logical functions & conditional formatting

10.5 Important formulas in Excel

10.6 Working with Dynamic table

10.7 Data transformation for analysis

10.8 Working with charts for data visualization

10.9 Pivot tables in Excel

10.10 Working with Macros in Excel and working with VBA

Module 11: Data Wrangling with SQL

11. 1 Introduction to SQL
11.2 Database normalization and entity-relationship model
11.3 SQL operators
11.4 Working with SQL: Join, tables, and variables
11.5 Deep dive into SQL
11.6 Functions
11.7 Working with Subqueries
11.8 SQL views, functions, and stored procedures

Module 12: Natural Language Processing and its Applications

12.1 Overview of Natural Language Processing and text mining

12.2 Text mining, cleaning, and processing

12.3 Text classification

12.4 Sentence structure, sequence tagging, sequence tasks, and language modeling

12.5 Introduction to semantics and vector space model

12.6 Dialog systems

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CASE STUDIES AND PROJECT WORK
Learners will work on multiple case studies and projects from different domains
as mentioned below:

1. Face Detection
Analyse how computer vision works. Work with glob and haarcascade classifier to
detect faces from various images.
2. AI Chatbot
Work with IBM Watson AI Chatbot. Create your own AI chatbot and see how IBM
Cloud platform helps you to create the chatbot on the backs of possibly the most
advanced machine learning system available.
3. Housing Price Prediction
Work with House prize kaggle dataset and predict the sale price for each house with 79
explanatory variables describing every aspect of the residential houses.

4. HR Analytics
Work with HR Analytics dataset and understand how hacks can help you to reimagine
HR problem statements. Understand the features of the dataset and in the end
evaluate the model by metric identification process.

5. Joke Rating Prediction

Work with the dataset is taken from the famous jester online Joke Recommender
system dataset and create a model to predict the ratings for jokes given by the users
provided the ratings provided by the same users for another set of jokes.

6. Work with Pyspark & RDD

Work with PySpark which is a python API for Spark and and use RDD using Py4J
package. Work with SparkConf that provides the configurations for running a Spark
Application.

7. Restaurant Revenue Prediction

Work with Ensemble Model on the Dataset for predicting annual restaurant sales using
various features like opening data, type of city, type of restaurant. Work with packages
like caret, Boruta, dplyr to analyse the dataset and predict the annual sales.

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8. Build Recommendation Engine Using Netflix Prize Data Set
Create your own recommender engine using SVD algorithm to predict movies on
Netflix based on the past ratings of the movies. Work with various packages like
numpy, pandas, matplotlib.pyplot to handle missing values from the dataset and can
recommend movies to the users.

9. Build the Book Recommender Application

Work with packages like recommenderlab, dplyr, tidyr, stringr,corrplot and many others
to create your book recommender engine using the ‘user-based collaborative filtering’
model that will recommend the books based on past ratings.

10. Legendary’ of pokemon

Extract various pokemons based on some particular parameter and use a classification
model to predict the ‘Legendary’ of pokemon. Work with the regression algorithm to
predict the attack and defence of a particular Pokemon.

11. Census Project

Work with census income dataset from UCI MAchine Learning repository that contains
income information for more than 48k individuals. Use data handling techniques to
handle missing values. Work with various supervised Machine Learning models to
predict the annual income of the people.

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Certification
After the completion of the course, candidates will get certificate
from IITMadras Digital Skills Academy.

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Intellipaat Success Stories
Melwin Rodrigues
After working for several years in customer care, Intellipaat
helped me make the change to the Data Science domain. I
can’t thank Intellipaat enough for helping me achieve what I
thought was extremely difficult.

Ankit Kumar
Initially, being a B.Com graduate, I wasn't sure whether I
could pursue Data Science. But, Intellipaat proved to me that
this domain can be easily picked up by anyone from any
background.

Gaurav Saboo
Intellipaat has not just helped me learn new skills but also
how to implement them in my current job, which led to a
promotion. Yes!! I got promoted with a salary hike and all
the credit goes to Intellipaat.

Shehzin Mulla
My experience with Intellipaat was very satisfying as
I upskilled and received several job opportunities as
well. The lifetime access to the course helped me
rejoin the classes and become more confident in my
technical skills, especially in analytics.

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