Master of Science in Data Science: Get the Full Picture

Master of Science in
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Table of
Contents
2 About upGrad
3 Why upGrad?
4 Program Highlights
5 Faculty and Industry Experts

8 upGrad Learning Experience
10 Industry Projects
11 Learning Path
12 Master’s Curriculum
45 Meet the Class
46 Career Support
47 Experience upGrad Offline
48 Hear from Our Learners
49 Program Details and Admission Process

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About
upGrad
upGrad has delivered over 20 million hours of
learning, delivering programs by collaborating with
universities across the world including Liverpool
John Moores University, IIT Madras, IIIT Bangalore
and Deakin Business School among others.
Online education is a fundamental Intelligence, is excited to offer a one-

disruption that will have a far-reaching of-its-kind, academically rigorous and
impact. upGrad was founded taking this industrially relevant Master of Science in
into consideration. upGrad is an online Data Science.
education platform to help individuals
develop their professional potential in the The faculty includes an average of 15+
most engaging learning environment. years of experience. The faculty covers
the conceptual depths of topics such
Since its inception, upGrad has delivered as Data Science, Machine Learning and
over 20 million hours of learning, delivering AI, and Big Data Analytics. These will be
programs by collaborating with universities complemented by industry-relevant case
across the world, including LJMU, IIT Madras, studies from major industry verticals by
IIIT Bangalore and Deakin Business industry leaders with 8+ years of experience
School among others. And it doesn’t end from upGrad’s industry network.
there.
Furthermore, our strong placement network,
upGrad, in collaboration with IIIT industry mentorship and the credibility of a
Bangalore, a renowned university Master’s Degree will provide you with just
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Science, Machine Learning and Artificial in Data Science!
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Program
Highlights
Dual Accreditation and Alumni Status
Get certified by IIITB and LJMU, UK and
gain dual alumni status on successful
completion of the program along
with access to LJMU’s digital library.
Programming Language & Tools

Learn 5+ Programming Languages and
Tools like Python, Tableau, MySQL and
more. Optional modules for further
upskilling.building, career fairs, industry
mentors and much more.
For the Industry, by the Industry
Learn from 60+ case studies and
industry experts who mentor
you throughout the program.
5 Specialisations
Choose from 5 specialisation-
son the basis of your back-
ground and career aspirations
and get the learning you want.
Live Classroom Session

Live Classroom hour with Dr Manoj
Jayabalan, Post-Doctoral Fellow at
LJMU, to solve queries related to
dissertation.
Global Access to Jobs

With 360-degree career support
and dual alumni status, gain global
access to jobs.
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Faculty and Industry

Experts
Dr. Debabrata Das Chandrashekar Ramanathan S. Anand

Director, IIITB Dean Academics, IIITB CEO, Gramener
Dr. Debabrata Das is Director of IIITB. Prof. Chandrashekar has a PhD from A gold medallist from IIM Bangalore,
He has received his PhD from IIT-KGP. Mississippi State University and an alumnus of IIT Madras and London
His main areas of research are IoT and experience of over 10 years in several Business School, Anand is among the
Wireless Access Network. multinational organisations. top 10 data scientists in India with 20
years of experience.
Tricha Anjali Behzad Ahmadi Anshuman Gupta

Ex-Associate Dean, IIIT-B Data Scientist Walmart Labs Director - Data Science, Pitney Bowes
Prof Tricha has a Ph.D from Georgia An M. Tech graduate and PhD from He has a PhD (Dual) from Penn State
Tech as well as an integrated M.Tech. Jersey Institute of Technology, Behzad University as well as a BTech Degree
from IIT Bombay. Her research interests possesses tremendous years of expe- from IIT Bombay.
include computer networks. rience in Data Science and ML.
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Prof. G. Srinivasaraghavan Mirza Rahim Baig Sajan Kedia

Professor, IIITB Ex- Lead Analyst, Flipkart Ex- Data Science Lead, Myntra
Prof. Srinivasaraghavan has a PhD in Mirza is a veteran professional with Sajan graduated from IIT, BHU and has
Computer Science from IIT-K and 18 10+ years of experience in applications tons of experience in Data Science, Big
years of experience with Infosys and of data science, machine learning in Data, Spark, Machine Learning and
several other MNCs. e-commerce and healthcare. Natural Language Processing.
Rajesh Sabapathy Prof. Dhiya Al-Jumeily Bijoy Kumar Khandelwal

Sr Director, Data Science, UHG Group Professor - AI, LJMU COO, Actify Data Labs
Rajesh has 10+ years of experience A Senior Member of the IEEE and a Bijoy comes with a deep understanding
leading Data Science teams in various Chartered IT Professional. He is a fellow of the private and cloud architectures
domains solving complex problems of the UK Higher Education Academy. and has helped numerous companies
using Deep Learning & ML technique. make the transition.
Ujjyaini Mitra Ankit Jain

Head of Analytics, Zee5 ML Engineering Manager, Meta
An alumnus of McKinsey and Co, An alumnus of IIT Bombay, UCB, and

Flipkart and Bharati Airtel with over HBS with over 9 years of experience.
11 years of experience. Ankit has been recognised as 40
Under40 Data Scientist for 2022.
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Dr. Atif Waraich Prof. Paulo Lisboa Dr Gabriela Czanner

Faculty - Computer Science, Head of Dept - Applied Mathematics, Faculty - Engineering and Technology,
LJMU LJMU LJMU
A Senior Faculty of Engineering and Studied Mathematical Physics at LU A Senior Lecturer in Statistics and Data
Technology at LJMU who has multiple and was the chairman of Industrial Science at the Department of Applied
publications in the healthcare domain. Mathematics at LJMU in 1996 and Head Mathematics at LJMU. Her research
of Graduate School in 2002. focus is Advanced Statistics for
Decision Support.
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Learning
Path Preparatory Course
0 week
Data Toolkit
12 weeks
Machine Learning
10 weeks
Choose any of the 5 Specialisations

22 weeks (with 4 weeks of Capstone)
Natural Language Deep Learning Business Business Intel- Data Engineer-

Processing Tools: Python, Ex- Analytics ligence/ Data ing
Tools: Python, Excel cel, TensorFlow Tools: Python, Analyics Tools: Hadoop,
mySQL, Excel Tools: Python, Pow- HBase, Sqoop,
er BI, Excel, mySQL, Hive, Flume,
MongoDB, Shiny, PySpark, Spark,
Tableau Airflow
Executive PG Executive PG Executive PG Executive PG Executive PG

Programme in Programme in Programme in Programme in Data Programme in
Data Science Data Science Data Science Science Data Science
(Natural Language (Deep Learning) (Business (Business (Data Engineering)
Processing) Analytics) Intelligence/ Data
Analytics)
Research Methodology Dissertation
MSc - LJMU MSc - LJMU MSc - LJMU MSc - LJMU MSc - LJMU
(Natural Language (Deep Learning) (Business Analytics) (Business Intelligence/ (Data Engineering)
Processing) Data Analytics)
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Master’s of Science
in Data Science
COMMON CONTENT
PRE-PROGRAMME PREPARATORY CONTENT
DATA ANALYSIS IN EXCEL
1. INTRODUCTION TO EXCEL Taught by one of the most renowned data

scientists in the country (S.Anand, CEO,
2. DATA ANALYSIS IN EXCEL - I:
Gramener), this module takes you from
FUNCTIONS, FORMULAE, AND
a beginner level Excel user to an almost
CHARTS
professional user.
3. DATA ANALYSIS IN EXCEL - II:
PIVOTS AND LOOKUPS
ANALYTICS PROBLEM SOLVING
1. THE CRISP-DM FRAMEWORK This module covers concepts of the CRISP-

- BUSINESS AND DATA DM framework for business problem-solving.
UNDERSTANDING
2. CRISP-DM FRAMEWORK
- DATA PREPARATION,
MODELLING, EVALUATION
AND DEPLOYMENT
COURSE 1: DATA TOOLKIT

INTRODUCTION TO PYTHON
1. UNDERSTANDING THE Build a foundation for the most in-demand 2 WEEKS

UPGRAD CODING CONSOLE programming language of the 21st century.
2. BASICS OF PYTHON
3. DATA STRUCTURES IN
PYTHON
4. CONTROL STRUCTURE AND

FUNCTIONS IN PYTHON
5. OOP IN PYTHON
*The Curriculum is subject to change as per the inputs from university or industry experts
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PROGRAMMING IN PYTHON
1. LOGIC AND SYNTAX Learn how to approach and solve logical 1 WEEK
BUILDING problems using programming.
2. DATA STRUCTURES: LISTS,

STRINGS, DICTIONARIES, AND
STACKS
3. TIME COMPLEXITY
4. SEARCHING AND SORTING
5. TWO POINTERS
6. RECURSION
PYTHON FOR DATA SCIENCE
1. INTRODUCTION TO NUMPY Learn how to manipulate datasets in Python 1 WEEK

using Pandas which is the most powerful
2. INTRODUCTION TO
library for data preparation and analysis.
MATPLOTLIB
3. INTRODUCTION TO PANDAS
4. GETTING AND CLEANING

DATA
DATA VISUALIZATION IN PYTHON
1. INTRODUCTION TO DATA Humans are visual learners and hence no 1 WEEK

VISUALIZATION task related to data is complete without
visualisation. Learn to plot and interpret
2. DATA VISUALISATION USING
various graphs in Python and observe how
SEABORN
they make data analysis and drawing insights
easier.
EXPLORATORY DATA ANALYSIS
1. DATA SOURCING Learn how to find and analyse the patterns in 1 WEEK
the data to draw actionable insights.
2. DATA CLEANING
3. UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS
4. BIVARIATE ANALYSIS AND

MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS
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CREDIT EDA CASE STUDY
1. PROBLEM STATEMENT Solve a real industry problem through the 1 WEEK

concepts learnt in exploratory data analysis.
2. EVALUATION RUBRIC
3. FINAL SUBMISSION
4. SOLUTION
INFERENTIAL STATISTICS
1. BASICS OF PROBABILITY Build a strong statistical foundation and learn 1 WEEK

how to ‘infer’ insights from a huge population
2. DISCRETE PROBABILITY
using a small sample.
DISTRIBUTIONS
3. CONTINUOUS PROBABILITY
DISTRIBUTIONS
4. CENTRAL LIMIT THEOREM
HYPOTHESIS TESTING
1. CONCEPTS OF HYPOTHESIS Understand how to formulate and validate 1 WEEK

TESTING - I: NULL AND hypotheses for a population to solve real-life
ALTERNATE HYPOTHESIS, business problems.
MAKING A DECISION, AND
CRITICAL VALUE METHOD
2. CONCEPTS OF HYPOTHESIS
TESTING - II: P-VALUE
METHOD AND TYPES OF
ERRORS
3. INDUSTRY DEMONSTRATION
OF HYPOTHESIS TESTING:
TWO-SAMPLE MEAN AND
PROPROTION TEST, A/B
TESTING
DATA ANALYSIS USING SQL
1. DATABASE DESIGN Data in companies is definitely not stored in 1 WEEK

excel sheets! Learn the fundamentals of da-
2. DATABASE CREATION IN
tabase and extract information from RDBMS
MYSQL WORKBENCH
using the structured query language.
3. QUERYING IN MYSQL
4. JOINS AND SET OPERATIONS
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ADVACED SQL & BEST PRACTICES
1. WINDOW FUNCTIONS Apply advanced SQL concepts like window- 1 WEEK

ing and procedures to derive insights from
2. CASE STATEMENTS, STORED
data and answer pertinent business ques-
ROUTINES AND CURSORS
tions.
3. QUERY OPTIMISATION AND
BEST PRACTICES
4. PROBLEM-SOLVING USING
SQL
SQL ASSIGNMENT: RSVP MOVIES
1. PROBLEM STATEMENT In this assignment, you will work on a movies 1 WEEK

dataset using SQL to extract exciting insights.
3. FINAL SUBMISSION
4. SOLUTION
COURSE 2 - MACHINE LEARNING I

LINEAR REGRESSION
1. SIMPLE LINEAR REGRESSION Venture into the machine learning community 2 WEEKS
by learning how one variable can be predict-
2. SIMPLE LINEAR REGRESSION
ed using several other variables through a
IN PYTHON
housing dataset where you will predict the
3. MULTIPLE LINEAR prices of houses based on various factors.
REGRESSION
4. MUTLIPLE LINEAR
REGRESSION IN PYTHON
5. INDUSTRY RELEVANCE OF
LINEAR REGRESSION
LINEAR REGRESSION ASSIGNMENT 1 WEEK
1. PROBLEM STATEMENT Build a model to understand the factors on

which the demand for bike sharing systems
vary on and help a company optimise its
3. FINAL SUBMISSION revenue.
4. SOLUTION
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LOGISTIC REGRESSION 2 WEEKS
1. UNIVARIATE LOGISTIC Learn your first binary classification tech-

REGRESSION nique by determining which customers of a
telecom operator are likely to churn versus
2. MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC
who are not to help the business retain
REGRESSION: MODEL
customers.
BUILDING AND EVALUATION
3. LOGISTIC REGRESSION:
INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS
CLASSIFICATION USING DECISION TREES
1. INTRODUCTION TO DECISION Learn how the human decision making 1 WEEK

TREES process can be replicated using a decision
treeand tune it to suit your needs.
2. ALGORITHMS FOR DECISION
TREES CONSTRUCTION
3. HYPERPARAMETER TUNING
IN DECISION TREES
UNSUPERVISED LEARNING: CLUSTERING
1. INTRODUCTION TO Learn how to group elements into different 1 WEEK

CLUSTERING clusters when you don’t have any pre-
defined labels to segregate them through
2. K-MEANS CLUSTERING
K-means clustering, hierarchical clustering,
3. HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING and more.
4. OTHER FORMS OF
CLUSTERING: K-MODE,
K-PROTOTYPE, DB SCAN
BASICS OF NLP AND TEXT MINING
1. REGEX AND INTRODUCTION Do you get annoyed by the constant spams 1 WEEK
TO NLP in your mailbox? Wouldn’t it be nice if we had
a program to check your spellings? In this
2. BASIC LEXICAL PROCESSING
module learn how to build a spell checker &
3. ADVANCED LEXICAL spam detector using techniques like phonet-
PROCESSING ic hashing, bag-of-words, TF-IDF, etc.
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BUSINESS PROBLEM SOLVING
1. INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS Learn how to approach open ended real 1 WEEK

PROBLEM SOLVING world problems using data as a lever to draw
actionable insights.
2. BUSINESS PROBLEM
SOLVING: CASE STUDY
DEMONSTRATIONS
CASE STUDY: LEAD SCORING
1. PROBLEM STATEMENT Help the Sales team of your company iden- 1 WEEK
tify which leads are worth pursuing through
this classification case study.
3. FINAL SUBMISSION
4. SOLUTION
SPECIALISATION: DEEP LEARNING

COURSE 3 - MACHINE LEARNING II
BAGGING & RANDOM FOREST
1. POPULAR ENSEMBLES Learn how powerful ensemble algorithms can 1 WEEK

improve your classification models by build-
2. INTRODUCTION TO RANDOM
ing random forests from decision trees.
FORESTS
3. FEATURE IMPORTANCE IN
RANDOM FORESTS
4. RANDOM FORESTS IN
PYTHON
BOOSTING 1 WEEK
1. INTRODUCTION TO Learn about ensemble modelling through

BOOSTING AND ADABOOST bagging and boosting and understand how
weak algorithms can be transformed into
2. GRADIENT BOOSTING
stronger ones.
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MODEL SELECTION & GENERAL ML TECHNIQUES
1. PRINCIPLES OF MODEL Learn the pros and cons of simple and 1 WEEK
SELECTION complex models and the different methods
for quantifying model complexity, alongwith
2. MODEL EVALUATION
general machine learning techniques like
3. MODEL SELECTION: BEST feature engineering, model evaluation, and
PRACTICES many more.
PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS 1 WEEK
1. PRINICIPAL COMPONENT Understand important concepts related to

ANALYSIS AND SINGULAR dimensionality reduction, the basic idea and
VALUE DECOMPOSITION the learning algorithm of PCA, and its practi-
cal applications on supervised and unsuper-
2. PRINCIPAL COMPONENT
vised problems.
ANALYSIS IN PYTHON
ADVANCED REGRESSION
1. GENERALIZED LINEAR In this module, take a more advanced look 1 WEEK

REGRESSION at regression models and learn the concepts
related to regularization.
2. REGULARIZED REGRESSION
ADVANCED ML CASE STUY 1 WEEK
1. PROBLEM STATEMENT Build a regularized regression model to

understand the most important variables to
predict the house prices in Australia.
3. FINAL SUBMISSION
4. SOLUTION
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COURSE 4 - ADVANCED MACHINE LEARNING AND DEEP LEARNING

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS
1. INTRODUCTION TO In this module, you will learn how to analyse 2 WEEKS

TIME SERIES AND ITS and forecast a series that varies with time.
COMPONENTS
2. WORKING WITH STATIONARY

TIME SERIES
3. END-TO-END ANALYSIS OF
TIME SERIES
INTRODUCTION TO NEURAL NETWORKS AND ANN
1. STRUCTURE OF NEURAL Learn the most sophisticated and cut- 3 WEEKS

NETWORKS ting-edge technique in machine learning -
Artificial Neural Networks or ANNs
2. FEED FORWARD IN NEURAL
NETWORKS
3. BACKPROPAGATION IN
NEURAL NETWORKS
4. MODIFICATIONS TO NEURAL
NETWORKS
5. HYPERPARAMETER TUNING
IN NEURAL NETWORKS
NEURAL NETWORK ASSIGNMENT
1. PROBLEM STATEMENT Build a neural network from scratch in Ten- 1 WEEK

sorflow to identify the type of skin cancer
from image.
3. FINAL SUBMISSION
4. SOLUTION
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COURSE 5 - ADVANCED DEEP LEARNING AND COMPUTER VISION

CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS
1. INTRODUCTION TO Learn the basics of CNN and OpenCV and 2 WEEKS

CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL how to classify image data using various
NETWORKS architectures which you will then implement
using Python and Keras.
2. BUILDING CNNS WITH
PYTHON AND KERAS
3. CNN ARCHITECTURES AND

TRANSFER LEARNING
4. STYLE TRANSFER AND

OBJECT DETECTION
CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS -INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS
1. INDUSTRY DEMONSTRATION: Apply CNNs to Computer Vision tasks like 1 WEEK

USING CNNS WITH FLOWERS detecting anomalies in chest X-Ray scans.
IMAGES
2. INDUSTRY DEMONSTRATION:
USING CNNS WITH X-RAY
IMAGES
OBJECT DETECTION & IMAGE SEGMENTATION (OPTIONAL)
1. FUNDAMENTALS OF OBJECT Learn the applications of DL in computer 0 WEEK

DETECTION vision through industry-relevant detection
algorithms such as RCNNs, YOLO and SSD.
2. REGION-BASED DETECTORS
3. ONE-SHOT DETECTORS
4. CUSTOM OBJECT DETECTION
5. SEMANTIC SEGMENTATION
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RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS
1. WHAT MAKES A NEURAL Ever wondered what goes behind machine 1 WEEK
NETWORK RECURRENT translation, sentiment analysis, speech rec-
ognition? Learn how RNN helps in these ar-
2. VARIANTS OF RNNS:
eas having sequential data like text, speech,
BIDIRECTIONAL RNNS AND
videos, and a lot more.
LSTMS
3. BUILDING RNNS IN PYTHON
GESTURE RECOGNITION
1. TWO ARCHITECTURES: 3D Make a Smart TV system which can control 2 WEEKS

CONVS AND CNN-RNN STACK the TV with user’s hand gestures as the re-
mote control
2. UNDERSTANDING
GENERATORS
3. STARTER CODE
WALKTHROUGH
4. PROBLEM STATEMENT AND

FINAL SUBMISSION
COURSE 6 - CAPSTONE PROJECT

CAPSTONE PROJECT
1. AN OVERVIEW OF THE Choose from a range of real-world indus- 4 WEEKS

DOMAIN AND ASSOCIATED try woven projects on advanced topics like
CONCEPTS Recommendation Systems, Fraud Detection,
Emotion Detection from faces, Social Media
2. PROBLEM STATEMENT
Listening, Speech Recognition among many
3. EVALUATION RUBRIC others.
4. MID SUBMISSION
5. FINAL SUBMISSION
6. SOLUTION
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SPECIALISATION: NATURAL LANGUAGE

PROCESSING
COURSE 3 - MACHINE LEARNING II

FORESTS
RANDOM FORESTS
PYTHON
BOOSTING
1. INTRODUCTION TO Learn about ensemble modelling through 1 WEEK

BOOSTING AND ADABOOST bagging and boosting and understand how
weak algorithms can be transformed into
2. GRADIENT BOOSTING
stronger ones.
1. PRINCIPLES OF MODEL Learn the pros and cons of simple and 1 WEEK
for quantifying model complexity, along with
2. MODEL EVALUATION
3. MODEL SELECTION: BEST feature engineering, model evaluation, and
PRACTICES many more.
PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS
1. PRINICIPAL COMPONENT Understand important concepts related to 1 WEEK

ANALYSIS AND SINGULAR dimensionality reduction, the basic idea and
VALUE DECOMPOSITION the learning algorithm of PCA, and its practi-
cal applications on supervised and unsuper-
2. PRINCIPAL COMPONENT
vised problems.
ANALYSIS IN PYTHON
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ADVANCED REGRESSION
1. GENERALIZED LINEAR In this module, take a more advanced look 1 WEEK

REGRESSION at regression models and learn the concepts
related to regularization.
2. REGULARIZED REGRESSION
ADVANCED ML CASE STUY
1. PROBLEM STATEMENT Build a regularized regression model to 1 WEEK

understand the most important variables to
predict the house prices in Australia.
3. FINAL SUBMISSION
4. SOLUTION
COURSE 4 - ADVANCED MACHINE LEARNING AND NATURAL

LANGUAGE PROCESSING
TIME SERIES FORECASTING

COMPONENTS
2. WORKING WITH STATIONARY

TIME SERIES
3. END-TO-END ANALYSIS OF
TIME SERIES
NEURAL NETS FOR NLP
1. UNDERSTANDING NEURAL Learn the most sophisticated and cut- 1 WEEK

NETWORKS ting-edge technique in machine learning -
Artificial Neural Networks or ANNs.
2. LOSS FUNCTIONS AND BACK
PROPAGATION
3. UNDERSTANDING
TENSORFLOW
4. CASE STUDY : IMDB MOVIE

REVIEW CLASSIFICATION
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SYNTACTIC PROCESSING
1. INTRODUCTION TO Learn how to analyse the syntax or the 2 WEEKS

SYNTACTIC PROCESSING grammatical structure of sentences using
POS tagging and Dependency parsing.
2. PARSING
3. INFORMATION EXTRACTION
4. CONDITIONAL RANDOM
FIELDS
SYNCTACTIC PROCESSING ASSIGNMENT
1. PROBLEM STATEMENT Use the techniques such as POS tagging and 1 WEEK
Dependency parsing to extract information
from unstructured text data
3. FINAL SUBMISSION
4. SOLUTION
COURSE 5- ADVANCED NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

SEMANTIC PROCESSING
1. INTRODUCTION TO Learn the most interesting area in the field of 2 WEEKS

SEMANTIC PROCESSING NLP and understand different techniques like
word-embeddings, topic modelling to build
2. DISTRIBUTIONAL SEMANTICS
an application that extracts opinions about
3. INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS OF socially relevant issues.
DISTRBUTIONAL SEMANTICS
4. TOPIC MODELLING
APPLIED DL IN NLP
1. INTRODUCTION TO MACHINE Apply the concepts of DL in natural language 2 WEEKS

TRANSLATION processing problems through encoder-de-
coder architecture, NMTs, and implement
2. ATTENTION-BASED NMT
them in TensorFlow.
MODEL
3. CUSTOM MODEL BUILDING IN

TENSORFLOW
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CASE STUDY: AUTOMATIC TICKET CLASSIFICATION
1. PROBLEM STATEMENT Categorise support tickets with the help of 2 WEEKS

Unsupervised learning and Topic modelling
3. FINAL SUBMISSION
4. SOLUTION

CAPSTONE PROJECT
1. AN OVERVIEW OF THE Choose from a range of real-world indus- 4 WEEKS

DOMAIN AND ASSOCIATED try woven projects on advanced topics like
CONCEPTS Recommendation Systems, Fraud Detection,
Emotion Detection from faces, Social Media
Listening, Speech Recognition among many
3. EVALUATION RUBRIC others.
4. MID SUBMISSION
SPECIALISATION: BUSINESS ANALYTICS

COURSE 3 - ADVANCED MACHINE LEARNING

FORESTS
RANDOM FORESTS
PYTHON
1. PRINCIPLES OF MODEL Learn the pros and cons of simple and 2 WEEKS
for quantifying model complexity, alongwith
2. MODEL BUILDING AND
EVALUATION
feature engineering, model evaluation, and
3. FEATURE ENGINEERING many more.
4. CLASS IMBALANCE
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TIME SERIES FORECASTING

COMPONENTS
2. SMOOTHING TECHNIQUES
3. INTRODUCTION TO AR
MODELS
4. BUILDING AR MODELS
MODEL SELCTION CASE STUDY
1. PROBLEM STATEMENT Apply your business acumen to the newly 1 WEEK

learnt machine learning techniques, and
select the right model most appropriate for a
3. FINAL SUBMISSION provided business scenario.
4. SOLUTION
COURSE 4 - DATA VISUALISATION AND STORYTELLING

VISUALISATION USING TABLEAU
1. DATA EXPLORATION IN Learn basic visualisation techniques using 1 WEEK

TABLEAU the most in-demand visualization tool in the
industry.
2. VISUALISING AND ANALYSING
DATA IN TABLEAU WITH
BASIC PLOTS
ADVANCED EXCEL
1. EXCEL FUNCTIONS Learn the advanced concepts in Excel and 1 WEEK

start to perform data analysis like a pro!
2. DATA ANALYSIS IN EXCEL
3. ADVANCED TOOLS AND

VISUALISATIONS
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VISUALISATION USING POWERBI
1. POWERBI: INTRODUCTION Take your visualization game a step forward 1 WEEK

AND SETUP by understanding how to operate PowerBI.

DATA IN POWERBI
3. DATA TRANSFORMATIONS
USING POWERBI
STRUCTURED PROBLEM SOLVING USING FRAMEWORKS
1. INTRODUCTION TO Learn how to attack a business problem 1 WEEK

STRUCTURED PROBLEM using various structured frameworks like 5W,
SOLVING 5WHYs, and SPIN.
2. INTERVIEWING AND
FRAMEWORKS - I: 5W AND
5WHYS
3. INTERVIEWING AND
FRAMEWORKS - II: SPIN
4. INDUSTRY DEMONSTRATIONS
ON FRAMEWORKS
5. UNDERSTANDING BUSINESS
MODEL CANVAS AND ISSUE
TREE FRAMEWORK
ON ISSUE TREE FRAMEWORK
7. SPECIALIZED FRAMEWORKS
FOR BUSINESS PROBLEMS:
7PS, 5CS, ETC.
DATA STORYTELLING
1. INTRODUCTION TO DATA Learn how to effectively strategise, com- 1 WEEK

STORYTELLING municate, and fine grain your data analysis
projects and understand how to optimal-
2. COMPONENTS OF A
ly present your findings to technical and
GOOD STORY WITH
non-technical stakeholders and upgrade your
DATA - UNDERSTANDING
storytelling skills.
YOUR STAKEHOLDER AND
STAKEHOLDER EMPATHY,
LEVELS OF DETAILS FOR
DIFFERENT STAKEHOLDERS
- CXO/LEADERSHIP VS TEAM
PRESENTATIONS, VISUALS, ETC.
3. GOLDEN RULES FOR DATA

STORYTELLING
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AIRBNB CASE STUDY
1. PROBLEM STATEMENT Use your newly learnt UI tools skills to anal- 1 WEEK
yse an AirBnB dataset to make important
business decisions. But the analysis is just a
3. FINAL SUBMISSION small part; can you also effectively present it
4. SOLUTION using Data Storytelling to the right stakehold-
ers?
COURSE 5: SOLVING BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS

OPERATIONS RESEARCH IN EXCEL
1. INTRODUCTION & CONCEPTS Learn about the world of operations research 1 WEEK
OF OPTIMISATION through linear and integer optimisations.
2. OPTIMISATION USING EXCEL
3. OPTIMISATION USING
PYTHON
4. OR IN INDUSTRY -
WAREHOUSE PROBLEM,
ASSIGNMENT PROBLEM, JOB-
SHOP SCHEDULING, ETC.
DATA ARCHITECTURE
1. COMPONENTS OF EFFECTIVE Given a broad business challenge, describe 1 WEEK

DATA ARCHITECTURE how you would approach the development of
a Machine Learning Architecture strategy us-
2. TECHOLOGY AND
ing the Structured Problem Solving Method.
INFRASTRUCTURE
3. TOOLS TO BUILD
AN EFFECTIVE DATA
ARCHITECTURE
DATA STRATEGY
1. BACKGROUND OF DATA Understand how to identify the right business 2 WEEKS

STRATEGY problems (Revenue/Cost Perspective, Val-
ue Chain) using the DS project assessment
2. CORE OF DATA STRATEGY-I
framework. You will also learn how to man-
3. CORE OF DATA STRATEGY-II age a product from production to deploy-
4. CASE STUDIES FOR DATA ment and understand the overall lifecycle
STRATEGY management of an Analytics/DS project.
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BUSINESS CASE STUDY
1. PROBLEM STATEMENT Understand how a project in the industry is 2 WEEKS

taken up and solved through a comprehen-
sive business case study.
3. FINAL SUBMISSION
4. SOLUTION

CAPSTONE PROJECT
1. POWER BI - OPTIONAL Solve an end-to-end real-life industry prob- 4 WEEKS

lem from a wide variety of domains.
2. AN OVERVIEW OF THE
DOMAIN AND ASSOCIATED
CONCEPTS
5. MID SUBMISSION
6. FINAL SUBMISSION
7. SOLUTION
SPECIALISATION: BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE/

DATA ANALYTICS
COURSE 3: ADVANCED DBS AND BIG DATA ANALYTICS
DATA MODELLING
1. DATABASE DESIGN RECAP In this module, you will learn and use data 1 WEEK
modelling on a dataset to solve a business
2. BUILDING BLOCKS OF DATA
problem.
MODELLING
3. PROBLEM SOLVING USING

DATA MODELLING
4. DATA MODELLING: OPTIONAL

ASSIGNMENT
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ADVANCED SQL AND BEST PRACTICES
1. WINDOW FUNCTIONS Apply advanced SQL concepts like window- 1 WEEK

ing and procedures to derive insights from
2. CASE STATEMENTS, STORED
data and answer pertinent business ques-
ROUTINES, AND CURSORS
tions
3. QUERY OPTIMISATION AND
BEST PRACTICES
4. PROBLEM SOLVING USING

SQL
INTRODUCTION TO BIG DATA AND CLOUD
1. BIG DATA AND CLOUD Understand the basics of big data and cloud 1 WEEK
COMPUTING and learn to work with an EMR cluster on a
cloud-based service.
2. AMAZON WEB SERVICES
3. BIG DATA STORAGE AND

PROCESSING - HADOOP
4. EMR CLUSTER IN AWS
ANALYTICS USING SPARK
1. EXPLORATORY DATA Use PySpark to do EDA and Predictive Analy- 2 WEEKS

ANALYSIS WITH PYSPARK sis using Spark’s ML library.
2. PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS WITH

SPARK MLLIB
BIG DATA CASE STUDY
1. PROBLEM STATEMENT Use your analytics skills to work on a large 1 WEEK

dataset in cloud to solve an industry prob-
lem.
3. FINAL SUBMISSION
4. SOLUTION
COURSE 4 - DATA VISUALISATION AND STORYTELLING

VISUALISATION USING TABLEAU
1. DATA EXPLORATION IN Learn basic visualisation techniques using 1 WEEK

TABLEAU the most in-demand visualization tool in the
industry.
DATA IN TABLEAU WITH
BASIC PLOTS
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ADVANCED EXCEL
1. EXCEL FUNCTIONS Learn the advanced concepts in Excel and 1 WEEK

start to perform data analysis like a pro!
2. DATA ANALYSIS IN EXCEL
3. ADVANCED TOOLS AND

VISUALISATIONS
VISUALISATION USING POWERBI
1. POWERBI: INTRODUCTION Take your visualization game a step forward 1 WEEK

AND SETUP by understanding how to operate PowerBI.

DATA IN POWERBI
3. DATA TRANSFORMATIONS
USING POWERBI
STRUCTURED PROBLEM SOLVING USING FRAMEWORKS
1. INTRODUCTION TO Learn how to attack a business problem 1 WEEK

STRUCTURED PROBLEM using various structured frameworks like 5W,
SOLVING 5WHYs, and SPIN.
2. INTERVIEWING AND
FRAMEWORKS - I: 5W AND
5WHYS
3. INTERVIEWING AND
FRAMEWORKS - II: SPIN
ON FRAMEWORKS
5. UNDERSTANDING BUSINESS
MODEL CANVAS AND ISSUE
TREE FRAMEWORK
ON ISSUE TREE FRAMEWORK
7. SPECIALIZED FRAMEWORKS
FOR BUSINESS PROBLEMS:
7PS, 5CS, ETC.
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DATA STORYTELLING
1. INTRODUCTION TO DATA Learn how to effectively strategise, com- 1 WEEK

STORYTELLING municate, and fine grain your data analysis
projects and understand how to optimal-
2. COMPONENTS OF A
ly present your findings to technical and
GOOD STORY WITH
non-technical stakeholders and upgrade your
DATA - UNDERSTANDING
storytelling skills.
YOUR STAKEHOLDER AND
STAKEHOLDER EMPATHY,
LEVELS OF DETAILS FOR
DIFFERENT STAKEHOLDERS
- CXO/LEADERSHIP VS TEAM
PRESENTATIONS, VISUALS, ETC.
3. GOLDEN RULES FOR DATA

STORYTELLING
AIRBNB CASE STUDY
1. PROBLEM STATEMENT Use your newly learnt UI tools skills to anal- 1 WEEK
yse an AirBnB dataset to make important
business decisions. But the analysis is just a
3. FINAL SUBMISSION small part; can you also effectively present it
4. SOLUTION using Data Storytelling to the right stakehold-
ers?
COURSE 5: ADVANCED PROBLEM SOLVING AND PROGRAMMING

DATA STRUCTURES - SETS, DICTIONARIES, STACKS, QUEUES
1. IN-BUILT DATA STRUCTURES Learn user defined data structures -Stack, 1 WEEK
Queue, Trees in Python that help in ad-
2. STACK
vanced data manipulation
3. QUEUE
4. TREES
SEARCHING AND SORTING
1. SEARCHING Learn most fundamental searching and 1 WEEK

sorting algorithms and design techniques
2. SORTING
3. TWO POINTERS
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01
ALGORITHM ANALYSIS + RECURSION
1. ALGORITHM ANALYSIS Learn how to assess the efficiency your code 1 WEEK
using algorithm analysis techniques and
2. TIME AND SPACE
learn to write recursive algorithms
COMPLEXITY
3. RECURSION
ADVANCED DATABASE PROGRAMMING USING PANDAS
1. ADVANCED DATA WRANGLING Learn and implement advanced wrangling 1 WEEK

WITH PANDAS - I functions and techniques in Pandas related
to date-time, multi-columns aggregation,
2. ADVANCED DATA WRANGLING
hierarchical indexing, and more.
WITH PANDAS - II
PYTHON & SQL LAB
1. SQL: TIMED TEST + In this competitive assignment, you will solve 2 WEEKS
ASSIGNMENT a variety of programming questions in both
SQL and Python in a timed environment. You
2. PYTHON: TIMED TESTS I & II
will also demonstrate one of the questions
3. VIDEO SUBMISSION through a video submission to help improve
your interviewing skills.

CAPSTONE PROJECT
1. AN OVERVIEW OF THE Solve an end-to-end real-life industry prob- 4 WEEKS

DOMAIN AND ASSOCIATED lem from a wide variety of domains.
CONCEPTS
4. MID SUBMISSION
5. FINAL SUBMISSION
6. SOLUTION
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SPECIALISATION: DATA ENGINEERING

COURSE 3 - DATA ENGINEERING - I
DATA MANAGEMENT AND RELATIONAL DATABASE MODELLING
1. ENTERPRISE DATA Understand the concepts of Data Manage- 1 WEEK

MANAGEMENT ment and learn to model data from a Rela-
tional Database.
2. RELATIONAL DATABASE
MODELLING
3. NORMAL FORMS AND ER

DIAGRAMS
INTRODUCTION TO BIG DATA (OPTIONAL)
1. 4VS OF BIG DATA This module you will learn what big data is, 0 WEEK
its various characteristics, and its determin-
2. BIG DATA: INDUSTRY CASE
ing factors. You will also get an idea of the
STUDIES
various sources of big data and the wide
range of big data applications in different
industries such as retail, healthcare, and
finance.
INTRODUCTION TO CLOUD AND AWS SETUP
1. INTRODUCTION TO CLOUD Understand what is cloud and setup your 1 WEEK

AWS account which will be required duing
2. AWS SETUP
the program.
INTRODUCTION TO HADOOP AND MAPREDUCE PROGRAMMING
1. CONCEPTS RETAILED TO Understand the world of distributed data 1 WEEK

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING processing and storage with Hadoop. Learn
to write MapReduce jobs in Python.
2. HADOOP DISTRIBUTED FILE
SYSTEM
3. MAPREDUCE PROGRAMMING
IN PYTHON
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01
ASSIGNMENT (OPTIONAL)
1. INTRODUCTION, PROBLEM Solve an assignment to brush up the skills 0 WEEK

STATEMENT AND GRADING learnt so far.
RUBRICS
NOSQL DATABASES AND APACHE HBASE

NOSQL DATABASES AND MONGODB(OPTIONAL)
1. CONCEPTS OF NOSQL Learn the concepts of NoSQL databases. 1 WEEK

DATABASES Understand the working of Apache HBase.
2. INTRODUCTION TO APACHE
HBASE
3. HBASE PYTHON API
4. COMPARISION OF NOSQL
DATABASES
DATA WAREHOUSING (OPTIONAL) 0 WEEK
1. INTRODUCTION TO DATA Understand the intricacies behind designing

WAREHOUSE AND DATA a data warehouse and a data lake for use
LAKES case/s.
2. DESIGNING DATA
WAREHOUSING FOR AN ETL
DATA PIPELINE
3. DESIGNING DATA LAKE FOR

AN ETL DATA PIPELINE
DATA INGESTION WITH APACHE SQOOP AND APACHE FLUME
1. INTRODUCTION TO DATA Get familiar with the challenges involed in 1 WEEK

INGESTION data ingestion. Use Sqoop and Flume to
ingest structured and unstructured data into
2. STRUCTURED DATA
Hadoop.
INGESTION WITH SQOOP
3. UNSTRUCTURED DATA
INGESTION WITH FLUME
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MAP REDUCE PROGRAMMING ASSIGNMENT
1. PROBLEM STATEMENT AND Practise MapReduce Programming on a Big 1 WEEK

SAMPLE DATASET Dataset.
2. SOLUTION
COURSE 4 - DATA ENGINEERING - II

HIVE & QUERYING
1. FUNDAMENTALS OF APACHE Manage and query a data warehouse with 2 WEEKS

HIVE Apache Hive. Learn to write optimized HQL
for large scale data analysis.
2. WRITING HQL FOR DATA
ANALYSIS
3. PARTITIONING AND
BUCKETING WITH HIVE

RUBRICS
AMAZON REDSHIFT
1. DATA WAREHOUSING WITH Learn to deploy a Redshift cluster and use it 1 WEEK
REDSHIFT for querying data.
2. ANALYZE DATA WITH

REDSHIFT
INTRODUCTION TO APACHE SPARK
1. SPARK ARCHITECTURE Get introduced to Apache Spark, a lighting 1 WEEK

fast big data processing engine.
2. RDD, DATAFRAME
API,SPARKSQL
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01
PROJECT: ETL DATA PIPLINE
1. INTRODUCTION AND Make use of Sqoop, Redshift & Spark to de- 2 WEEKS
PROBLEM STATEMENT sign an ETL data pipeline.
2. GRADING RUBRICS AND

SUBMISSION
AWS CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE (OPTIONAL) 0 WEEK
1. THE AWS CLOUD PLATFORM Do a deep dive into AWS Cloud
2. BUILDING AND DEPLOYING

VIRTUAL MACHINES
3. AWS CLOUD STORAGE

SOLUTIONS
4. APPLICATION DEPLOYMENT
5. CLOUD ADMINISTRATION
AND SECURITY
6. LOAD BALANCING AND

BACKUP STRATEGIES
7. CLOUD AUTOMATION
COURSE 5 - DATA ENGINEERING - III

OPTIMISING SPARK FOR LARGE SCALE DATA PROCESSING
1. RUNNING SPARK ON Use PySpark to create large scale data pro- 1 WEEK
MULTINODE CLUSTER cessing applications.
2. SPARK MEMORY & DISK

OPTIMISATION
3. OPTIMISING SPARK CLUSTER

ENVIRONMENT
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APACHE FLINK (OPTIONAL)
1. INTRODUCTION TO APACHE Get Introduced to Apahce Flink and learn 0 WEEK

FLINK query batch data
2. BATCH DATA PROCESSING

Use DataStream API to create a stream pro-
WITH FLINK
cessing application
3. STREAM PROCESSING WITH
APACHE FLINK
4. SQL API
REAL-TIME DATA STREAMING WITH APACHE KAFKA
1. INTRO TO REAL-TIME Understand the producer-consumer architec- 1 WEEK

DATA PROCESSING ture of Apache Kafka. Learn to set up a Kafka
ARCHITECTURES cluster for managing real-time data.
2. FUNDAMENTALS OF APACHE
KAFKA
3. SETTING UP KAFKA
PRODUCER AND CONSUMER
4. KAFKA CONNECT API &

KAFKA STREAMS
REAL-TIME DATA PROCESSING USING SPARK STREAMING
1. SPARK STREAMING Learn about the real-time data processing 1 WEEK

ARCHITECTURE architecture of Apache Spark. Build Spark
Streaming applications to process data in
2. SPARK STREAMING APIS
real-time.
3. BUILDING STREAM
PROCESSING APPLICATION
WITH SPARK
4. COMPARISION BETWEEN
SPARK STREAMING AND
FLINK
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01
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RUBRICS
BUILDING AUTOMATED DATA PIPELINES WITH AIRFLOW 1 WEEK
1. FUNDAMENTS OF AIRFLOW Automate Data Pipelines with Airflow.
2. WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT
WITH AIRFLOW
3. AUTOMATING AN ENTIRE
DATA PIPELINE WITH
AIRFLOW
ANALYTICS USING PYSPARK
1. EXPLORATORY DATA Use PySpark to do EDA and Predictive Analy- 1 WEEK

ANALYSIS WITH PYSPARK sis using Spark’s ML library.
2. PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS WITH

SPARK MLLIB
PROJECT: REAL TIME DATA PROCESSING
1. INTRODUCTION AND Build an end-to-end real-time data process- 1 WEEK

PROBLEM STATEMENT ing application using Spark Streaming and
Kafka.
2. GRADING RUBRICS AND
SUBMISSION

CAPSTONE PROJECT
1. AN OVERVIEW OF THE The capstone project will stich all the compo- 4 WEEKS
DOMAIN AND ASSOCIATED nents of data engineering together.
CONCEPTS
4. MID SUBMISSION
5. FINAL SUBMISSION
6. SOLUTION
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COURSE - RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES (8 WEEKS)

INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH AND RESEARCH PROCESS
FAMILIARISE WITH What is research, importance of reseach, what is data, what

DIFFERENT ASPECTS is information, what is knowledge?
OF RESEARCH AND Importance of research, types of originality, characteristics
FORMULATE A RESEARCH of research, research process
QUESTION Criticism in research and its importance, Peer reviews in
research and its importance
Types of research: Scientific vs Rest, Objectives of research
Structure of a research proposal: Components of the
Research proposal covered over the course
Identify a research problem, formulate a research question,
characteristics of a good research question
RESEARCH DESIGN
DEVELOP AN Types of research methods and pyramid of evidence

UNDERSTANDING OF 1. Study of existing researches and links between them
VARIOUS RESEARCH 2. Applied and incremental
DESIGNS 3. Discover
Applied vs Fundamental, Quantitative vs Qualitative,
Bayesian vs Frequentis, Hypothesis driven research vs
Exploratory resarch
Sample Size and Power, Precision vs accuracy trade-off,
p-value vs confidence intervals using a case study
LITERATURE REVIEWING
LEAN HOW TO READ AND Intro to lit review process, what is a lit review, benefits of lit
CRITIQUE A PAPER, AND review, literature reivew process (read, analyse and cite)
HOW TO CITE A PAPER How to read and critique a paper
Types of sources that could be cited during research, the
importance of citations and how to cite
What makes a good reference, How to use reference
management software, Related scientific ethics
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RESEARCH PROJECT MANAGEMENT
LEARN HOW TO PLAN Project management in reseach: research question, planning of

THE PROJECT AND HOW the project, initiation, monitoring, closure.
TO ARRANGE FOR DATA Project requirements on data: data collection, data access,
data sources, availability, credibility and usability of data from
different sources.
Project requirements on analysis software: Analytical methods
in Data Science, software requirement (R, Minitab, Matlab…),
and data cleaning skills.
Project requirements on time: planning, breaking the work
down to tasks, Gantt Charts, Milestones identification and
Deliverables, Re-planning.
REPORT WRITING AND PRESENTATION SKILLS
MASTER GOOD Art of writing a paper

SCIENTIFIC WRITING AND Parts of a paper
PROPER PRESENTATION Tools to write papers
SKILLS Publishing papers: Journals + Seminars
Citation Methods and Rules
Defending your thesis
SCIENTIFIC ETHICS
DEVELOP AN Honor Code, Definition of Plagiarism, Type of Plagiarism, Code

UNDERSTANDING OF THE of good practice
ETHICAL DIMENSION IN Research Claims, Professional Standard, IP, Conflict of Interest
RESEARCH Legal aspects of data: Ethical Approvals for studies involving
humans such as questionaire based research, Storing Primary
Data,
COURSE - DISSERTATION (16 WEEKS)

SUBMITTING THE IN- Representative Thesis to Select From:
DEPTH RESEARCH Investigate dietary patterns and metabolite fingerprints of
WORK IN A FINAL takeaway (fast) food consumers using PCA and clustering
THESIS REPORT AND methods
PRESENTING IT. Investigate a diagnosis of eye diseases using imaging ophthalmic
data
Structure medical images with information geometry
Using Social media feed to place tweets regarding natural
disasters on a map
Preventing credit card fraud through pattern recognition
Developing a recommender system for a Media giant
Risk modelling for Financial activities and Investment Banking
Disclaimer: Program curriculum is subject to change basis inputs from the institute and experts. Please refer to the website for update details, or speak to our
Admission Counsellors.
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Meet the
Class
INDUSTRIES OUR STUDENTS COME FROM
5% Healthcare
5% E-Commerce
1% Telecom
57% IT
1% Finance
15% Other
1% Consulting
1% Education
3% Retail
1% Manufacturing
10% BFSI
WORK EXPERIENCE 15% 6.1-9 years

21% 3.1-6 years
33% 0-3 years 11% 9.1-12 years
20% +12.1 years

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Master of Science in

Appearances Are Often Deceptive

5 Faculty and Industry Experts

45 Meet the Class

47 Experience upGrad Offline

48 Hear from Our Learners

49 Program Details and Admission Process

Online education is a fundamental Intelligence, is excited to offer a one-

Programming Language & Tools

Live Classroom Session

Global Access to Jobs

Faculty and Industry

Dr. Debabrata Das Chandrashekar Ramanathan S. Anand

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Rajesh Sabapathy Prof. Dhiya Al-Jumeily Bijoy Kumar Khandelwal

Ujjyaini Mitra Ankit Jain

An alumnus of McKinsey and Co, An alumnus of IIT Bombay, UCB, and

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Research Methodology Dissertation

1. INTRODUCTION TO EXCEL Taught by one of the most renowned data

ANALYTICS PROBLEM SOLVING

1. THE CRISP-DM FRAMEWORK This module covers concepts of the CRISP-

COURSE 1: DATA TOOLKIT

1. UNDERSTANDING THE Build a foundation for the most in-demand 2 WEEKS

4. CONTROL STRUCTURE AND

2. DATA STRUCTURES: LISTS,

4. SEARCHING AND SORTING

PYTHON FOR DATA SCIENCE

1. INTRODUCTION TO NUMPY Learn how to manipulate datasets in Python 1 WEEK

4. GETTING AND CLEANING

DATA VISUALIZATION IN PYTHON

1. INTRODUCTION TO DATA Humans are visual learners and hence no 1 WEEK

EXPLORATORY DATA ANALYSIS

4. BIVARIATE ANALYSIS AND

CREDIT EDA CASE STUDY

1. PROBLEM STATEMENT Solve a real industry problem through the 1 WEEK

1. BASICS OF PROBABILITY Build a strong statistical foundation and learn 1 WEEK

4. CENTRAL LIMIT THEOREM

1. CONCEPTS OF HYPOTHESIS Understand how to formulate and validate 1 WEEK

DATA ANALYSIS USING SQL

1. DATABASE DESIGN Data in companies is definitely not stored in 1 WEEK

4. JOINS AND SET OPERATIONS

ADVACED SQL & BEST PRACTICES

1. WINDOW FUNCTIONS Apply advanced SQL concepts like window- 1 WEEK

SQL ASSIGNMENT: RSVP MOVIES

1. PROBLEM STATEMENT In this assignment, you will work on a movies 1 WEEK

COURSE 2 - MACHINE LEARNING I

LINEAR REGRESSION ASSIGNMENT 1 WEEK

1. PROBLEM STATEMENT Build a model to understand the factors on

LOGISTIC REGRESSION 2 WEEKS

1. UNIVARIATE LOGISTIC Learn your first binary classification tech-