Caltech CTME Data Analytics

Certificate Program
Duration: 9 Months
Contents
About upGrad 2

About Caltech and Fullstack Academy 3

About Data Analytics Certificate Program 4

Arvind Kaushik - Caltech CTME Data Analytics Instructor 5

Caltech Approved Faculty 6

Key Learning Outcomes 8

Certificate from Caltech and Fullstack Academy 8

Program Curriculum 9

Program Details and Application Steps 14

About upGrad
upGrad has delivered over 2 million learners, delivering programs by collaborating with universities across the world
including University of Maryland, Duke CE, IIT Madras, IIIT Bangalore and Deakin Business School, among others

Online education is a fundamental disruption that will have a far-reaching impact. upGrad
was founded taking this into consideration. upGrad is an online education platform that
helps individuals develop their professional potential in the most engaging learning
environment. Since its inception, upGrad is focused on helping working professionals in
their bid to learn, grow and move up in their careers through a wide range of programs
designed to improve their expertise.

Our research has consistently revealed that the greatest differentiator for professionals
looking to progress into a position of expertise and eminence in their domain is continuous
education. As they move into positions of influence, senior management professionals are
required to bring in-depth knowledge of key business theories along with the execution
aptitude that they have honed and perfected in the course of their careers.

As the ability to partake in the academic rigours of business education becomes limited
due to the demands of work and life, professionals often find themselves in the position of
having to treat their continuing education as a burden that comes in the way of their
professional performance. Through its association with Caltech and Fullstack Academy,
upGrad endeavours to facilitate continuing education for senior professionals without
impeding their career journeys.

Our aim is simple:

We strive to create high-impact,
on-campus hands-on
experiences that prepare
students for meaningful and
productive careers.

Ronnie Screwvala,
Co-founder and Executive Chairman

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About Caltech
The Caltech Center for Technology and Management Education (CTME) provides
customized education programs to professionals in technology-driven organizations. The
Center, in Caltech's Division of Engineering and Applied Science, offers a broad range of
certificate programs, interactive workshops and short courses, including advanced
engineering, project management, operations, data analytics, technical marketing,
leadership, and innovation. In addition to public classes for individuals, CTME provides
customized educational solutions for organizations. For more information about CTME,
visit https://ctme.caltech.edu/cybersecurity

The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) is a world-renowned science and

engineering Institute that marshals some of the world's brightest minds and most
innovative tools to address fundamental scientific questions and pressing societal
challenges. Caltech prizes excellence and ambition. The contributions of Caltech's faculty
and alumni have earned national and international recognition, including 46 Nobel Prizes
and nearly 60 National Media of Science. The institute manages the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory (JPL) for NASA.

About Fullstack Academy

Fullstack Academy is a national tech education provider based in New York City. Founded
in 2012, it offers web development, cybersecurity, data analytics, and DevOps bootcamps.
Fullstack Academy also offers the Grace Hopper Program, an immersive software
engineering course for women+ students, in addition to partnerships with leading
universities across the United States. Graduates have been hired by Google, Facebook,
Amazon, Fortune 100 firms, and startups. For more information, visit
www.fullstackacademy.com.

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About Data Analytics Certificate
Program

Format Duration
Blended 9 months
(Online + Live)

Time Commitment Job Opportunities

10-12 hours per week Get 5 assured interview
opportunities in Data Analytics

Projects
5+ projects and 1 Capstone
Project

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Arvind Kaushik -
Caltech Data Analytics Instructor

Arvind Kaushik
Mr. Kaushik has an MBA from UC Irvine, focusing on Strategic Information
Systems, IT Management, Operations, and Decision Analysis. He has a BS in
Computer Science and Computer Engineering, focusing on SDLC, Database
Engineering, and enterprise-scale Applications. As a life-long learner, he has
advanced studies in Statistics, Big Data, the Internet of Things, and Cybersecurity
Certificate courses from Harvard. He is a Verizon certified Lean Six Sigma Black
Belt, specializing in Consumer Retail Logistics and Reverse Supply Chain.

Arvind Kaushik is a proficient and versatile business technology executive,

working in enterprise applications and data-rich environments that support vital
functions, such as multi-channel sales and service retail operations, supply chain,
finance, audit, and IT. Throughout his 25-year career, he has envisioned,
designed, built, and deployed value-added solutions for business clients and
stakeholders.

Mr. Kaushik's deep experience in business analytics spans technologies, tools,

platforms, and methodologies:
Data - Oracle databases, Teradata (a Caltech spinout) data warehouse, and
GCP/AWS Cloud and Big Data platform
Data Analytics - R, Python, Knime, Alteryx, DataRobot, Domino.
BI Tools - Tableau, Qlik, ThoughtSpot, Looker. Enterprise
Applications - Oracle E-Business Suite ERP, SAP ECC + IS-Retail, Oracle
Enterprise Performance Management
Link : https://ctme.caltech.edu/instructors-team#kaushik

Arvind Kaushik
Caltech CTME Data Analytics Faculty. MBA, UC Irvine, focusing on Strategic
Information Systems, IT Management, Ops, and Decision Analysis

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Caltech Approved Faculty

James H. Faghmous
I build and lead teams that create innovative data products. My expertise is in
developing and executing data analytics strategy, especially in non-technical
settings. I focus on ‘interpretable machine learning’ products that combine data
analytics, domain expertise, and UX for mass product adoption. As a researcher,
I have published in top tier artificial intelligence (AAAI, IJCAI) and data analytics
(SDM, ICDM) conferences and mentored over 25 students including Ph.D.
students and postdocs.

Eva Lee
Professor, Sys Eng; Director-Center for Operations Research in Medicine and
HealthCare, Georgia Institute of Technology.

Georgios Ouzounis
Technologist, visionary and thought leader with over 22 years of experience in
the front lines of scientific research, engineering and entrepreneurship in the
hi-tech industry and across seven countries. Motivated by the quest for
excellence in business practices and recognized for innovation, strategy and
delivery, I have been driving corporate growth in the geospatial, intelligence,
medical, healthcare, insurance, financial and consumer electronics sectors
through leadership and technology. Core fields of expertise include computer
vision, data analytics, machine learning and AI for big data analytics over different
cloud architectures.

Behzad Ahmadi
With over 3 years of experience as a data scientist, experience with data
analytics, machine learning methods, and feature extraction, I have an extensive
knowledge of machine learning, neural networks, classification and pattern
recognition, Support Vector Machine, regression methods, K-means clustering,
anomaly detection, recommender systems, statistics, and modeling.

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Caltech Approved Faculty

Mirza Rahim Baig

I am a data analytics professional with about 11 years of experience in advanced
analytics, machine learning, consulting in the e-commerce and healthcare
domains. Proficient in machine learning and applications; adept at solving
complex problems through data.

Chiranjoy Chowdhuri
Chiranjoy is a data, analytics and AI practitioner with 12 years’ experience of
helping large corporations take strategic, data-driven decisions for better
business outcomes.

Anand S
A gold medallist from IIM Bangalore, an alumnus of IIT Madras and London
School of Business, Anand is among the top 10 data scientists in India.

Vishwa Mohan
Currently working as the Staff Engineer at @LinkedIn India, I bring with me around
10 years of work experience with multiple MNCs, with the expertise on scaling
systems . I have built REST services on SOA architecture that are highly scalable,
especially scaling to e-commerce holiday seasons. I have worked extensively on
web services and have special interest in distributed systems.

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Key Learning Outcomes

Develop your knowledge of the Develop the capacity to use data

most popular analytics tools and analytics tools to solve business
technologies. problems on your own.

Learn how to extract key

Learn about Data Analytics
business insights from data and
uses and ramifications in
convey them to stakeholders in
various industries.
a clear and concise manner.

Create models that forecast

future trends and utilise them to
guide business decisions.

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Program Curriculum
Prep Course 1 Week

The preparatory module introduces you to the fundamentals of data-driven

approach to business problem solving using industry standard tools like Excel and
Powerpoint.

Data Analysis in Excel + Presentation

Simple and Advanced Functions in Excel, Pivot Table, Vlookup and Powerpoint Skills

Business Problem Solving

Approaching open-ended real-world problems using data as a lever to draw

actionable insights.

Course 1- Python Bootcamp 2 Weeks

Take your first steps into the world of programming with the world’s most versatile
language- Python. No prior coding experience is needed.

Welcome Module (to be released on the day

of the webinar with a deadline of 1-day)

Introduction to Python

OOPs, Functions, List Comprehensions, Map, Filter and Reduce

Course2- Python 7 Weeks

Apply python and it’s libraries to solve business problems by analyzing data,
applying statistical tools and representing them with beautiful visualizations.

Programming in Python + Python Graded Questions

Data Structures: Lists, Strings, Dictionaries, and Stacks, Time Complexity,

Searching and Sorting, Two Pointers and Recursion

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Python for Data Analytics

Numpy and Pandas: Array, Vectors, Getting and Cleaning Data

Data Visualisation in Python

Univariate, Bivariate, categorical and time series plots using Searborn and Matplotlib

EDA

Uni and Mutivariate Analysis, Derived Metrics, Skewness, Outliers and Normalization

Python Assignment

Reinforce the concepts learnt in data analytics through this rigorous assignment
involving the past hundred years of movie data.

Course 3- SQL 5 Weeks

Get introduced to relational database management systems and learn how to
manipulate data. This course will teach you basic and advanced SQL techniques
along with various data modelling techniques.

Database Design and Introduction to MySQL:

Stacks, Queues, Trees, Complexity, OLAP and OLTP, RDBMS and SQL Querying

Advanced SQL

Stacks, Queues, Trees, Complexity, OLAP and OLTP, RDBMS and SQL Querying

Data Modelling

DDL, ERD, DML, Database Creation, Querying and Manipulation

Advanced SQL II

Stored Routines, Cursors, Query Optimization and Window Functions

SQL Assignment

Use SQL skills to derive inferences to help a production house with relevant
recommendations.

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Course 4- Tableau 5 Weeks

This course will teach you how to represent the inferences driven from the ana-
lyzed data using beautiful visualizations and interactive dashboards.
Get ready to master the fundamentals required for Tableau Certification. Data
Analysis, Types of Charts and Visualisations on Tableau Interface and Dashboard
Making.

Tableau Certification

Data Analysis, Types of Charts and Visualisations on Tableau Interface and

Dashboard Making. Get ready to master the fundamentals required for Tableau
Certification

Data Storytelling

Components of Data Storytelling, Narrative, 5 Patterns of Insights, Pyramid

Principle

Tableau Assignment

Course 5- Machine Learning 11 Weeks

In this course, you will learn advanced statistical modelling techniques used to
solve business problems like regression, decision trees, forecasting, etc. This
advanced course will also give you the basics of machine learning algorithms
which you can further explore with our optional module.

Inferential Statistics

Discrete & Continuous Distributions and Central Limit Theorem

Hypothesis Testing

Null & Alternate Hypothesis, P - value, Critical Value, A/B Testing

Linear Regression

Best Fit Line, Cost Function, Gradient Descent, Residual Sum of Squares, Residual
Analysis and Prediction

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Logistic Regression

Binary classification, Sigmoid function, Likelihood function, Odds and Log Odds,
Confusion Matrix, Accuracy, Sensitivity, Specivity and ROC Curve

Unsupervised Learning: Clustering

K- Means, Hierchichal clustering, K - Mode and Association Rules

Decision Trees

Homogeneity, Gini Index, Entropy and Information Gain, Tree Truncation and
Pruning and Choosing Hyperparameters

Model Selection

Bias-Variance Tradeoff, Hyperparameters, Cross Validation, One-Hot Encoding and

Class Imbalance

Time Series Forecasting

Basic Components of Time Series Forecasting, Simple Average and Naive

Forecast Methods and Smoothing Techniques

Assignment

Course 6- AWS 4 Weeks

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world leader in cloud computing and storage.
This course will help you understand data storage solutions, data analysis,
modelling and visualisation techniques through AWS’ suite of applications. This
course will make you capable of giving AWS certification examination.

AWS Certification

Understand Data Storage solutions, Analysis, modelling and visualization

techniques through AWS Glacier, Glue, Athena, Redshift and more to be capable
of giving AWS certification examination.

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Course 7- Capstone Project 2 Weeks

Bring your own capstone project that can give you an understanding of data
sourcing, cleaning, analysis and modeling techniques. Work on Storytelling
principles of your capstone.

Optional 12 Weeks

Module 1 Random Forest

Module 2 Boosting
Module 3 Advanced Regression
Module 4 Introduction to Deep Learning - Artificial Neural
Networks, Backpropagation and TensorFlow
Module 5 Convolutional Neural Networks
Module 6 Deep Learning Assignment
Module 7 Introduction to Natural Language Processing -
Lexical Processing
Module 8 Syntactic Processing
Module 9 NLP Assignment
Module 10 Advanced Time Series
Module 11 Domain Specific Modules - BFSI and Healthcare
Module 12 Interview Prep Content

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 Program Details
Program Start Date Duration Program Fees
Refer to the website 9 months INR 3,00,000 (incl taxes)
USD 4000 (for Non Indian
residents)

Minimum Eligibility
English language skills and computer skills
Programming experience not mandatory
The program design and curriculum assumes an undergraduate degree
has been earned by the learner. However, undergraduates and freshers
preferably from STEM discipline can also apply

Admission Process

STEP-1 STEP-2 STEP-3

Complete the Get Shortlisted and Block your
Application Receive the Offer Letter Seat

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