Applied Data Science with Machine Learning Specialization

Duration: 150 Hours

Programming Fundamentals:

 Expressions (2 hours)
o Basic mathematical operations
o String concatenation and string formatting
 Flow Control (4 hours)
o If-else statements
o For and while loops
o Conditional expressions and the ternary operator
o try-except statements for error handling
 Functions (6 hours)
o Defining and calling functions
o Parameters and arguments
o Return values
o Scope, default arguments, and keyword arguments
o Recursion
 Built-in Data Structures (8 hours)
o Lists, tuples, dictionaries, and sets
o List and dictionary comprehension
o Advanced list and dictionary methods, such as sorting and filtering
o Advanced use cases, such as nested data structures

Data Analysis and Visualization:

Numpy (4 hours)
o Introduction to Numpy
o Numpy arrays
o Array operations and manipulations
o Broadcasting
o Linear algebra with Numpy
 Pandas (8 hours)
o Introduction to Pandas
o Series and DataFrame
o Data import and export
 o Data cleaning and preprocessing
o Groupby and aggregation
o Merging and joining DataFrames
 Series & DataFrame (4 hours)
o Indexing and slicing
o Handling missing data
o Data transformation
 Data Visualization using Seaborn and Matplotlib (14 hours)
o Introduction to data visualization
o Matplotlib and Seaborn basics
o Line plots, scatter plots, and histograms
o Bar plots and box plots
o Heatmaps and pair plots
o Advanced visualization techniques, such as facet grids and categorical plots
o Visualization best practices

Machine Learning:

 Supervised Machine Learning: Regression and Classification (15 hours)

o Introduction to supervised machine learning
o Linear regression, multiple linear regression, and regularization
o Logistic regression and classification
o Decision Trees and Random Forest
o Support Vector Machines
 Unsupervised Learning (8 hours)
o Introduction to unsupervised learning
o Clustering: k-means, hierarchical clustering, and density-based clustering
o Dimensionality reduction: PCA and t-SNE
o Anomaly detection
 Recommender Systems (7 hours)
o Introduction to Recommender Systems
o Collaborative filtering
o Content-based filtering
o Hybrid systems
o Matrix factorization and Singular Value Decomposition
o Evaluation of Recommender Systems

Natural Language Processing:

 Introduction to NLP (2 hours)
o Overview of NLP and its applications
o Text data preprocessing
o Tokenization, stemming, and lemmatization
 Text Representation (4 hours)
o Bag of words
o TF-IDF
o Word embeddings
o Sentence embeddings
 Text Classification (4 hours)
o Supervised text classification
o Unsupervised text classification
o Text classification with deep learning
 Named Entities Recognition (NER) (2 hours)
o Introduction to NER
o Rule-based NER
o Statistical NER
o Neural NER
 Sentiment Analysis (4 hours)
o Introduction to sentiment analysis
o Supervised sentiment analysis
o Unsupervised sentiment analysis
o Sentiment analysis with deep learning
 Text Generation (4 hours)
o Introduction to text generation
o Language models
o Text generation using deep learning

Deep Learning:

 Introduction to Deep Learning (2 hours)

o Overview of deep learning and its applications
o Understanding artificial neural networks
 Feedforward Neural Networks (4 hours)
o Introduction to feedforward neural networks
o Backpropagation
o Gradient descent
o Activation functions
 Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) (4 hours)
o Introduction to CNNs
o Convolutional layers
 o Pooling layers
o Applications in image classification
 Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) (4 hours)
o Introduction to RNNs
o Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM)
o Applications in natural language processing and sequential data
 Autoencoders (4 hours)
o Introduction to autoencoders
o Types of autoencoders
o Applications in dimensionality reduction and anomaly detection
 Generative Models (4 hours)
o Introduction to generative models
o Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)
o Variational Autoencoders (VAEs)
o Applications in image generation and text generation

Computer Vision:
 Introduction to Computer Vision (2 hours)
o Overview of computer vision and its applications
o Understanding image data and digital image processing
 Image Processing (4 hours)
o Image enhancement and restoration
o Image segmentation
o Feature extraction and object detection
 Object Detection (4 hours)
o Introduction to object detection
o Scale-Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT)
o Speeded Up Robust Feature (SURF)
o Fast R-CNN, YOLO
 Image Segmentation (4 hours)
o Introduction to image segmentation
o K-means clustering and Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM)
o Semantic segmentation and instance segmentation
 Image Classification (4 hours)
o Introduction to image classification
o Support Vector Machine (SVM)
o Neural networks and CNNs
o Transfer learning
 Object Tracking (4 hours)
o Introduction to object tracking
o Optical flow and Lucas-Kanade algorithm
 o Kalman filter and Particle filter
o Deep learning-based object tracking

MLOps
 Introduction to MLOps (2 hours)
o Overview of MLOps and its importance
o Understanding the MLOps pipeline
 Data Management (4 hours)
o Data collection, cleaning and pre-processing
o Data storage and versioning
 Model Development (4 hours)
o Model selection and tuning
o Hyperparameter tuning
o Model evaluation
 Model Deployment (4 hours)
o Model packaging and deployment
o Continuous integration and delivery
o Model management and monitoring
 Model Governance (4 hours)
o Model explainability and interpretability
o Model documentation and lineage
o Model audit and compliance
 MLOps Tools (4 hours)
o Introduction to MLOps tools
o MLFlow, TensorFlow Extended (TFX) and Kubeflow
o Jenkins, Travis CI and CircleCI
o Prometheus, Grafana and ELK

Note : To help students apply their knowledge in a real-world setting, we will also be
working on several industry-oriented projects throughout the course. These projects will
provide students with hands-on experience and the opportunity to develop a portfolio of
work that they can show to potential employers.