Month 1: Foundations of Data Science (Beginner Level)

Module 1:

Introduction to Data Science and Programming

Objective: Understand the core concepts of Data Science and acquire essential programming skills in Python and R.

• What is Data Science? Overview and Career Paths
• The Data Science Workflow: Problem Definition to Deployment
• Introduction to Python Programming
• Working with Python Libraries (NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn)
• Introduction to R for Data Science: Syntax and Key Libraries
• Setting up a Data Science Environment (Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio, VS Code)

Module 2:

Data Collection and Data Cleaning

Objective: Develop a foundational understanding of statistics for analyzing and interpreting data.

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• Introduction to Structured, Semi-Structured, and Unstructured Data
• Data Collection Techniques: APIs, Web Scraping, Databases
• Data Cleaning Fundamentals: Handling Missing Data, Duplicates, Outliers
• Data Wrangling with Pandas (Merging, Aggregating, and Transforming Data) • Introduction to SQL: Basic Queries (SELECT, JOIN, WHERE)

Module 3:

Data Visualization and Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)

Objective: Master basic data visualization and perform EDA to derive insights.

Module 02

• Introduction to Data Visualization and its Importance
• Introduction to Data Visualization and its Importance
• Basic Plots using Matplotlib and Seaborn (Bar, Line, Scatter)
• Advanced Visualization Techniques: Heatmaps, Pairplots, Boxplots
• Introduction to Interactive Visualization with Plotly
• Performing Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) and Feature Engineering • Correlation and Covariance Analysis

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Month 2: Intermediate Data Science (Intermediate Level) Module 4:

Statistics for Data Science

Objective: Develop a foundational understanding of statistics for analyzing and interpreting data.

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• Probability Theory and Key Distributions (Normal, Binomial, Poisson)
• Descriptive Statistics: Mean, Median, Mode, Variance, Skewness
• Inferential Statistics: Hypothesis Testing (t-tests, ANOVA, Chi-Square) • Confidence Intervals and p-Values
• Bayesian Statistics Overview

Module 5:

Introduction to Machine Learning

Objective: Learn key machine learning algorithms and their applications.

• Supervised Learning: Regression and Classification
• Linear Regression and Logistic Regression
• Decision Trees and Random Forests
• K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) and Naive Bayes Classifiers
• Model Evaluation Metrics: Accuracy, Precision, Recall, F1 Score • Introduction to Overfitting, Underfitting, and Cross-validation

Module 6:

Big Data Technologies and Distributed Computing

Objective: Learn about big data tools and distributed systems for large-scale data processing.

• Introduction to Big Data and Hadoop Ecosystem
• Apache Spark for Big Data Analysis (Introduction to PySpark) • Parallel and Distributed Computing Concepts
• Cloud Platforms for Data Science: AWS, Google Cloud, Azure • Data Storage with NoSQL Databases (MongoDB, Cassandra)

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Month 3: Advanced Machine Learning and Data Science (Intermediate to Advanced)

Module 7:

Advanced Machine Learning Algorithms

Objective: Learn and apply more advanced machine learning algorithms.

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• Support Vector Machines (SVM)
• Gradient Boosting: XGBoost, LightGBM
• Ensemble Learning: Bagging, Boosting, Stacking
• Hyperparameter Tuning: Grid Search, Random Search, Bayesian Optimization • Dimensionality Reduction Techniques: PCA, LDA, t-SNE

Module 8:

Time Series Analysis and Forecasting

Objective: Learn how to analyze and forecast time-series data. • Components of Time Series: Trend, Seasonality, Noise

• Time Series Decomposition and Visualization
• ARIMA Models: Auto-regression, Moving Average, Differencing • Forecasting with SARIMA, Exponential Smoothing
• Time Series Forecasting using Machine Learning Models

Module 9:

Introduction to Deep Learning and Neural Networks

Objective: Introduce the fundamentals of deep learning using neural networks.

Module 07

• Introduction to Deep Learning and Neural Networks
• Perceptrons, Activation Functions, Backpropagation
• Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) for Image Processing
• Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) and LSTMs for Sequential Data • Transfer Learning with Pre-trained Models (VGG16, ResNet, BERT)

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Month 4: Advanced Topics in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence

Module 10:

Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Objective: Learn advanced techniques in NLP for processing and analyzing textual data.

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• Text Preprocessing: Tokenization, Lemmatization, Stop Word Removal • Vectorization Methods: Bag-of-Words, TF-IDF
• Sentiment Analysis and Text Classification
• Word Embeddings: Word2Vec, GloVe, FastText

• Named Entity Recognition (NER) and Part-of-Speech Tagging • Advanced NLP with Transformers (BERT, GPT)

Module 11:

Reinforcement Learning

Objective: Explore the foundations of Reinforcement Learning (RL).

• Introduction to Reinforcement Learning Concepts
• Markov Decision Processes (MDP) and Bellman Equations • Q-Learning and Policy Gradients
• Deep Q-Networks (DQN) and AlphaGo
• Applications of RL in Robotics, Gaming, and Finance

Module 12:

AI and Ethics in Data Science

Objective: Understand the ethical implications of data science and AI in the real world.

• Ethical Considerations in Machine Learning and AI
• Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in AI
• Bias in Data and Algorithms
• Privacy and Security in Data Science (GDPR, Data Anonymization) • AI Governance and Responsible AI

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Certification:
Certificate Issuance: Awarded after successful completion of all modules, assignments,

capstone project, and exams.

Job Placement Assistance: Professional job placement support, including resume reviews, interview preparation, and industry networking.

Tools and Technologies:

• Programming Languages: Python (Primary), R, SQL

• Libraries & Frameworks: Pandas, Matplotlib, Scikit-Learn, TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch,

  NLTK, SpaCy, Plotly, XGBoost, LightGBM

• Big Data Tools: Apache Spark, Hadoop, PySpark, Hive

• Cloud Platforms: AWS (SageMaker), Google Cloud, Azure

• Deployment: Docker, Flask, Django, Kubernetes

  This structured, comprehensive syllabus takes students and professionals from the basics of data science to its most advanced topics, with ample opportunities for hands-on learning and career development. Let me know if you’d like further customization or more details!