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Master of Science in
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If you are reading this, you may wish to accelerate your career in Data Science. With
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WHY DATA SCIENCE
WITH UPGRAD AND LJMU

INTEGRATED MASTER’S ONE-ON-ONE

FROM IIIT-B AND LJMU MENTORSHIP
Do a PG Diploma from IIIT Bangalore Get mentored by a thesis supervisor
& Master of Science from LJMU for the dissertation project.

GLOBAL ACCESS GET ALUMNI STATUS +

TO JOBS LIBRARY ACCESS
Get 360 degree career support and Earn Alumni status of IIIT Bangalore and
access to opportunities globally LJMU, with digital library access from
LJMU

INSIGHTS FROM
LJMU FACULTY

PROF PAULO LISBOA DR ATIF WARAICH

HOD - Applied Mathematics Faculty - Computer Science
LJMU LJMU

PROF DHIYA AL-JUMEILY DR GABRIELA CZANNER

Associate Dean Faculty - Engineering and Tech
LJMU LJMU
CONCEPTS FROM
INDUSTRY EXPERTS

TEJAS SANGHVI ANSHUMAN GUPTA

Vice President Director - Data Science
Fractal Analytics Pitney Bowes

UJJYAINI MITRA S. ANAND

Head of Analytics CEO
Viacom 18 Gramener

SAMEER DHANRAJANI KALPANA SUBBARAMAPPA

CSO Ex-Assis. VP, Decision Sciences
Fractal Analytics GENPACT

SAI ALLURI
PRO Analytics & HINDOL BASU
Strategy Manager Partner
Uber Tata IQ

INSIGHTS FROM
IIIT-B FACULTY
PROF. S. SADAGOPAN
Director
IIIT Bangalore

CHANDRASHEKAR
TRICHA ANJALI RAMANATHAN
Associate Professor Dean (Academics)
IIIT Bangalore IIIT Bangalore

DINESH BABU JAYAGOPI G SRINIVASARAGHAVAN

Assistant Professor Professor
IIIT Bangalore IIIT Bangalore
MASTER OF SCIENCE IN
DATA SCIENCE.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
MASTER OF SCIENCE IN DATA SCIENCE

PG DIPLOMA IN DATA SCIENCE

12 months 110 credits

After successful completion of the PG Diploma in

Next
Data Science upGrad and IIIT-B

RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES
2 months 10 credits

MASTER’S DISSERTATION
4 months 60 credits
PROGRAM
CURRICULUM
Note: This curriculum is subject to change based on inputs from IIIT-B, LJMU and industry
modules marked as (*) are optional.

INTRODUCTION TO DATA MANAGEMENT

(DURATION: 12 MONTHS) 110 CREDITS

DATA ANALYTICS IN EXCEL

Taught by one of the most renowned data scientists in the country - S. Anand, CEO, Gramener,
this module takes you from a beginner level Excel user to an almost professional user

VISUALISATION USING TABLEAU

Learn an important and widely used tool for Data Analysts - Tableau

BUSINESS PROBLEM SOLVING USING DATA ANALYSIS

INTRODUCTION TO PYTHON
Sharpen your Data Analysis skills with Python, which is the choice of language for simplicity,
readability and quick deployment

PROGRAMMING IN PYTHON
Learn how to solve problems using programming

PYTHON FOR DATA SCIENCE

Learn to clean and manipulate the data using Python's powerful data analysis libraries - NumPy
and Pandas

DATA VISUALISATION IN PYTHON

Make your data alive with visuals using Python and tools like Tableau

ANALYTICS PROBLEM SOLVING

This module covers the concepts of the CRISP - DM framework for business problem-solving

EXPLORATORY DATA ANALYSIS

Derive initial insights from the data using Excel. Learn from the best - S. Anand, CEO of Gramener

CASE STUDY - UBER SUPPLY DEMAND GAP

Uber needs your help! Apply the statistical concepts to solve Uber's problem and present your
results using engaging visuals

GDP ASSIGNMENT
Be a part in the success story of India by helping the CMs focus on areas which will foster
economic development for their respective states.
INFERENTIAL STATISTICS
Build a solid statistical foundation. This will help you understand data and the results of your
analysis

HYPOTHESIS TESTING
Understand how to formulate and test hypotheses to solve a business problem

STATISTICS ASSIGNMENT
An assignment based on the concepts learnt in Inferential Statistics and Hypothesis Testing

CREDIT EDA CASE STUDY

Use EDA to analyse patterns in the data that will help you identify individuals capable of
repaying the loan

MACHINE LEARNING I
LINEAR REGRESSION
Learn to implement linear regression. Help a digital media company understand why their
viewership is falling and propose recommendations to increase viewership

LINEAR REGRESSION ASSIGNMENT

Build a model to understand how factors like car prices vary on and help a Chinese company
enter the US car market

LOGISTIC REGRESSION
Use logistic regression to solve a Case Study to predict employee attrition in a firm and help
them plan their manpower

CLUSTERING
Learn how to create segments based on similarities using k-means and hierarchical clustering.
Use this to create customer segments that can be targeted using different marketing stategies

PRINCIPLE COMPONENT ANALYSIS (PCA)

Learn how to reduce the dimensions of data to make it useful for analysis. Use it to understand
how movie recommendations work

CLUSTERING & PCA ASSIGNMENT

Use the concepts that you learnt in Clustering and Principal Component Analysis to cluster
a group of countries

LEAD SCORING CASE STUDY

Help the sales team of your company identify which leads are worth pursuing

MACHINE LEARNING II
MODEL SELECTION
Learn how to benchmark and select the best algorithm for a given dataset and problem
statement
ADVANCED REGRESSION
This module takes a more advanced look at linear regression models

ADVANCED REGRESSION ASSIGNMENT

Build a regularized regression model to understand the most important variables to predict the
house prices in Australia

TREE MODELS
Tree models represent the way we make decisions. Learn how decisions are made in this
powerful classification algorithm

BUSINESS PROBLEM SOLVING

Learn how to approach open ended real world problems using data as a lever to draw
actionable insights

TIME SERIES
Learn how to make predictions using time dependent data. Use it to forecast energy
consumption, stock prices and sales

CASE STUDY - TELECOM CHURN

Help a telecom giant predict if a customer will churn or not. Apply multiple algorithms simultane-
ously to identify the one that works the best

BIG DATA AND SQL

DATA ANALYSIS USING SQL
Learn basic and advance concepts of SQL and add another language to your programming
tool kit!

ADVANCED SQL
Learn the advanced concepts of SQL and gain mastery over this programming language

SQL ASSIGNMENT
Apply the basics of investing and your knowledge of Data Science to determine when to buy and
sell a stock

HADOOP
Hadoop is a distributed computing framework. Learn how to analyze data with millions of rows
quickly using distribute frameworks

HIVE AND SQOOP

Apache Hive is the query language for Big Data applications. Learn it from the inventor of the
language himself - Joydeep Sen Sarma

HIVE - CASE STUDY

Use Hive to analyse the taxi trips data collected by the New York Taxi and Limousine Commission
DOMAIN ELECTIVES
BFSI
ACQUISITION ANALYTICS
Understand the component of acquisition strategies and practice hands-on exercise of data
analytics for acquiring the potential customers

ASSIGNMENT - ACQUISITION ANALYTICS*

Build a response model based on the clients, campaign and economic information provided by
the Portuguese Bank

ENGAGEMENT ANALYTICS
Now that you have learnt how to acquire customers, learn how to engage them and prevent
their attrition

RISK ANALYTICS
Learn about the risk associated with customers who default on their loan or credit, and the
analytics related to it

COURSE PROJECT
Help CredX identify the ideal applicants to provide credit cards by building an application
scorecard

E-COMMERCE
MARKET MIX MODELLING
Learn how to optimise your marketing spends in order to maximise the ROI

RECOMMENDATION SYSTEMS
Learn about the algorithms that power the recommendation engines of the e-commerce sites

ASSIGNMENT - RECOMMENDATION SYSTEMS*

Build a recommendation engine based on beer preferences of users

PRICE OPTIMIZATION
Learn how prices are dynamically optimised on an e-commerce platform

A\B TESTING*
Understand the concept behind A/B tests and also learn how to execute an A/B test in Optimizely

COURSE PROJECT
Model the impact of different marketing levers on the sales figure of ElecKart

HEALTHCARE
PAYER ANALYTICS
In this module, you will explore the different analytics opportunities that exist in the healthcare
payer space
ASSIGNMENT - PAYER ANALYTICS*
Stratify patients according to the risk of cost they pose to the healthcare payer

PROVIDER ANALYTICS
In this module, you will explore the different analytics opportunities that exist in the healthcare
provider space

ANALYTICS IN THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES

Learn how pharmaceutical companies harness the power of data analytics

COURSE PROJECT
Decipher the CMS hospital star rating system using supervised and unsupervised models

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

BASICS OF TEXT PROCESSING
Get started with the Natural Language Toolkit, learn the basics of text processing in Python

LEXICAL PROCESSING
Learn to extract features from unstructured text and build machine learning models on text
data

SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS

Conduct sentiment analysis, learn to parse English sentences and extract meaning from them

SYNTACTIC PROCESSING ASSIGNMENT*

POS tagging is a crucial part of Syntactic Analysis. Build a POS tagger using a CRF classifier
and by modifying Viterbi

OTHER PROBLEMS IN TEXT ANALYTICS

Explore the applications of text analytics in new areas and various business domains

BUILDING CHATBOTS WITH RASA

Learn the fundamentals of building chatbots using open source chatbot building
framework -Rasa

DEEP LEARNING AND NEURAL NETWORKS

INFORMATION FLOW IN A NEURAL NETWORK
Understand the components and structure of artificial neural networks

TRAINING A NEURAL NETWORK

Learn the cutting edge techniques used to train highly complex neural networks

NEURAL NETWORKS - ASSIGNMENT*

Implementing multiclass classification on MNIST dataset using raw NN model in Numpy

CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS

Use CNNs to solve complex image classification problems
RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS
Study LSTMs and RNNs applications in text analytics

CREATING AND DEPLOYING NETWORKS USING TENSORFLOW AND KERAS

Build and deploy your own deep neural networks on a website, learn to use tensorflow
API and Keras

NEURAL NETWORKS PROJECT - GESTURE RECOGNITION

In this module, you'll experiment and create a model that identifies the gestures with
considerable accuracy

MINI CAPSTONE
BOOSTING
Learn about another type of ensemble modelling which is boosting

MINI CAPSTONE
Apply the concepts learnt in the program to solve a real industry use case

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
(DURATION: 2 MONTHS) 10 CREDITS

WHAT IS RESEARCH?
Familiarise with different aspects of research
- Intro to research
- Importance of research
- Criticism in research and its importance
- Peer reviews in research and its importance

TYPES OF RESEARCH
Develop an understanding of various research design and techniques
- Descriptive vs Analytical
- Applied vs Fundamental
- Quantitative vs Qualitative
- Bayesian vs Frequentist Approach

RESEARCH PROCESS
Learn about the different steps in the research process and how to evaluate a literature
- Research question
- Hypothesis and aims
- Formulating a Problem
- Literature review
RESEARCH PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Learn how to plan the project timelines and arrange for data & software
- Understand the different steps involved in a project cycle
- Project Requirements on Data
- Identifying the milestones in a research project
- Learn how to track the progress using Gantt Chart

REPORT WRITING AND PRESENTATION

Master good scientific writing and proper presentation skills
- Art of writing papers
- Parts of a paper
- Tools to write papers
- Publishing papers: Journals + Seminars

SCIENTIFIC ETHICS
Develop an understanding of the ethical dimension in research
- Citation Methods and Rules
- Honor Code
- Research Claims
- IPh

MASTER’S DISSERTATION
(DURATION: 4 MONTHS) 60 CREDITS

MASTER’S THESIS
Articulate, research and present your project.
- Monthly Checkpoints
- Submission

An example of project outlines is here:

- Investigate the risk factors for eye disease from complex longitudinal datasets
- Investigate a diagnosis of eye diseases using imaging ophthalmic data
- Multi-task learning for drug design and discovery
- Using stacking for brain tumour discrimination
- Investigate dietary patterns and metabolite fingerprints of takeaway (fast) food consumers
using PCA and Clustering methods
- Longitudinal studies to investigate the complex link between corporate environment
engagement, green disclosure, business model transformation and supply chain
performance
- Preventing credit card fraud through pattern recognition
- Developing a recommender system for a Media giant
- Using social media feed to place tweets regarding natural disasters on a map
PROGRAM
DETAILS
PROGRAM STARTS
Please refer to the website for program start dates

DURATION
18 months

PROGRAM FLOW
12 months - PG Diploma in Data Science
2 months - Research Methodology
4 months - Master’s Dissertation

WEEKLY COMMITMENT
12 hours per week

PROGRAM FEE
₹4,85,000 (Incl. of all taxes)
Flexible Payment Options Available

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