Hindi Vidya Prachar Samiti’s

RAMNIRANJAN JHUNJHUNWALA COLLEGE

OF ARTS, SCIENCE & COMMERCE
(Autonomous)

Affiliated to

University of Mumbai

Syllabus for the M. Sc. Part I

Program: M. Sc. in Data Science & Artificial
Intelligence
Program Code: RJSPGDSAI

(Choice Based Credit System with effect from the academic year
2022 – 2023 for Part I and 2023 – 2024 for Part II)
Hindi Vidya Prachar Samiti’s, Ramniranjan Jhunjhunwala College of Arts, Science & Commerce (Autonomous) M.Sc.
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Syllabus for Approval

Sr. Heading Particulars
No.
1 Title of course M.Sc. in Data Science and
Artificial Intelligence
2 Eligibility for admission B.Sc. Computer Science, B.Sc.
Information Technology and
B.Sc. Statistics. B.Sc.
Mathematics, BTech.
3 Passing Marks 40%
4 No. of Years, Semesters 2 Years, 4 Semesters
5 Level Post Graduate
6 Pattern Semester
7 Status Introduced
8 To be implemented Part I: 2020 – 2021,
from Academic Year Part II: 2021 – 2022

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Program Educational Objectives

1. To enable graduates to excel professionally by adapting to the dynamic needs of the
academia, industry and research in the field of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.
2. To develop in depth understanding of the key technologies in Data Science and Artificial
Intelligence.
3. To enable student to excel in the field of Data Analytics, Data Mining, Machine Learning,
Visualization Techniques, Predictive Analysis and Statistical modelling.
4. To practice the problems of analysis and decision making using big data.
5. To gain practical, hands-on experience with programming languages, data analysis tools and
frameworks through coursework.
6. To enable graduates to use the concepts of machine learning, deep learning and natural
language processing in the applications of Artificial Intelligence.

Program Outcomes
Students who have completed the M.Sc. in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence will be able to:

1. To apply statistical modelling and data analysis techniques to the solution of real-world
business problems, effectively present results using data visualization techniques.
2. To test and train various machine learning algorithms for real world data and applications.
3. To create data warehouse and mine the data for analysis.
4. To analysis big data using various languages and tools.
5. To apply machine learning and deep learning algorithms to real-world problems.
6. To create the applications for analysis using deep learning and natural language processing
concepts.
7. To recognize and analyze ethical issues in data security, integrity and privacy.

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Course Structure
Semester I

Course Code Course Name Group Teaching Scheme Credits

(Hrs/Week)
Lectures Practical
RJSPGITDSAI101 Statistics for Data Science CC 4 - 4
RJSPGITDSAI102 Data Warehousing CC 4 - 4
RJSPGITDSAI103 Artificial Intelligence CC 4 - 4
RJSPGITDSAI1L1 PG Lab – I (FDS) PGL - 2 2
RJSPGITDSAI1L2 PG Lab – II (DW) PGL - 2 2
RJSPGITDSAI1L3 PG Lab – III (AI) MNP - 2 2
RJSPGITDSAI1S1 Seminar – I SE - 1 1
RJSPGITDSAI1P1 Professional Elective – I (Python PE 3 - 3
for DS/ Applied Mathematics for
DS)
RJSPGITDSAI1I1 Career Advancement Course (RIC) CAC 2 - 2
Total 16 8 24

Semester II
Course Code Course Name Group Teaching Scheme Credits
(Hrs/Week)
Lectures Practical
RJSPGITDSAI201 Machine Learning CC 4 - 4
RJSPGITDSAI202 Big Data Technology CC 4 - 4
RJSPGITDSAI203 Soft computing CC 4 - 4
RJSPGITDSAI2L1 PG Lab – IV (ML) PGL - 2 2
RJSPGITDSAI2L2 PG Lab – V (BDT) PGL - 2 2
RJSPGITDSAI2L3 PG Lab – VI (SC) MNP - 2 2
RJSPGITDSAI2R1 Mini Project SE - 1 1
RJSPGITDSAI2P2 Professional Elective – II PE 3 - 3
(IP&CV/CC)
RJSPGITDSAI2I1 Career Advancement Course (BI) CAC 2 - 2
Total 16 8 24

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Semester III
Course Code Course Name Group Teaching Scheme Credits
(Hrs/Week)
Lectures Practical
RJSPGITDSAI301 Natural Language Processing CC 4 - 4
RJSPGITDSAI302 Big Data Analytics CC 4 - 4
RJSPGITDSAI303 Deep Learning CC 4 - 4
RJSPGITDSAI3L1 PG Lab – VII (NLP) PGL - 2 2
RJSPGITDSAI3L2 PG Lab – VIII (BDA) PGL - 2 2
RJSPGITDSAI3L3 PG Lab – IX (DL) DES - 2 2
RJSPGITDSAI3PL4 PG Lab – X (E-I / E-II) PEL 2 2
RJSPGITDSAI3P3 Professional Elective – III PE 4 - 4
(Robotics & RPA/ Block chain)
Total 16 8 24

Semester IV
Course Code Course Name Group Teaching Scheme Credits
(Hrs/Week)
Lectures Practical
RJSPGITDSAI4D2 Dissertation – II (Major Project) DES - 30 12
RJSPGITDSAI4D3 Industrial Internship II - 30 12
Total - 60 24

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Note:

Student have to register for the courses as per the following guidelines:
Sr. No. Category Credits Total
Semester I Semester II Semester Semester Credits
III IV
1 Core Courses (CC) 12 12 12 - 36
(3 Courses) (3 Courses) (3 Courses)
2 PG Labs (PGL) 6 6 6 - 12
(3 Courses) (3 Courses) (3 Courses)
PEL - - 2 (1 Course) 2
3 Mini Project (MNP) - 1 - - 1

4 Seminar (SE) 1 - - - 1
5 Professional 3 3 4 - 10
Electives (PE)
6 Career 2 2 - - 4
Advancement
Course (CAC)
7 Dissertation – II - - - 12 12
(Major Project)
(DES)
8 Industrial - - - 12 12
Internship (II)
Total 24 24 24 24 96
Credits

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Core Courses

Semester I
Course Code Course Name Group Teaching Credits
Scheme
(Hrs/Week)
Lectures Practical
RJSPGITDSAI101 Statistics of Data Science CC 4 - 4
Course Objectives
1. To provide basic knowledge of data science.
2. To provide the foundation on topics in statistical methods and applied probability which
forms the basis for data science.
3. To provide the foundation on topics of mathematics which forms the basis for data
science.
4. To address the issues and the principals of estimation theory, testing hypothesis and
regression and prediction.

Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to
1. Demonstrate the competency on topics like basics of data science, data transformation,
statistical methods, applied probability etc.
2. Apply the various distribution methods to data.
3. Use statistical tests in testing hypothesis on data.
4. Demonstrate the competency on topics like unbiasedness of estimators, methods of
Maximum Likelihood Estimation and Central Limit Theorem.
5. Perform exploratory analysis of multivariate data.

Unit Topics Lectures

Unit I Basics of Data Science 10
Decision Theory, Estimation Theory, Coordinate Systems, Linear
Transformations
Data Collection, Modelling and Compilation, Data Analysis, Data
Presentation and Visualization
Data Science Software Tools, Programming Languages for Data Science,
Applications of Data Science
Unit II Data and Sampling Distributions 10
Random sampling and sample bias: Bias, Random selection, Selection Bias:
Regression to mean, Sampling distributions of a statistic: Central limit
theorem, Standard error, Bootstrap, Resampling, Confidence Intervals.
Distributions
Normal distribution: Standard normal and QQ plots, Long-tailed
distributions, Student’s t-distribution, Binomial distribution, Poisson
distribution, Exponential distribution and Weibull distributions.
Significance Testing
A/B Testing, Hypothesis test: Null hypothesis, Alternative hypothesis,
Oneway and Two-way hypothesis test, Resampling.

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Unit III Basic Probability and Terms 10
Events and their Probabilities, Rules of Probability, Conditional probability
and independence, Permutations and combinations, Bayer’s Theorem,
Descriptive Statistics, Compound probability, Conditional probability.
Data Transformations and quality analysis
Merge, Rollup, Transpose and Append, Missing Analysis and Treatment,
Outlier analysis and treatment.
Unit IV Hypothesis testing 10
Null hypothesis, Alternative hypothesis, One-way and Two-way hypothesis
test, Permutation test, Exhaustive and bootstrap permutation test, P-values,
t-Test, Multiple testing, Degree of Freedom, ANOVA: F-statistics and
twoway ANOVA, Chi-square test, Fisher’s exact test, Power and sample size.
Regression and Prediction
Linear regression, Multiple linear regression, Cross-validation, Model
selection and stepwise selection, Weighted regression, Factor variables in
regression, Interpreting the regression equation, Regression diagnostic,
Polynomial and spline regression.
References
1. “Fundamentals of Data Science: Take the First Step to Become A Data Scientist”, Samuel
Burns, Amazon KDP Printing and Publishing.
2. “Practical Statistics for Data Science”, Peter Bruce, Andrew Bruce, O’Reilly, 2017.
3. “Statistics for Data Science”, James D. Miller, Packt, 2017.
4. “Probability and Statistics for Engineers”, Dr. J. Ravichandran,2010.
5. “R for data Science: Import, Tidy, Transform, Visualize and Model Data”, Hadley Wickham,
Garrett Grolemund.
6. “Data Analysis with R”, Tony Fischetti, 2015.
7. “Mastering Data Analysis with R”, Gergely Daroczi, 2015.
8. “R Cookbook”, Paul Teetor, O’Reilly, 2017.
9. “Practical Data Science Cookbook”, Prabhanjan Tatter, Tony Ojeda, Sean Patrik Murphy,
Benjamin Bengfort, Abhijit Dasgupta, 2nd Edition, Packt, 2014

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Course Code Course Name Group Teaching Credits

Scheme
(Hrs/Week)
Lectures Practical
RJSPGITDSAI102 Data Warehousing CC 4 - 4
Course Objectives
1. To learn the concepts of data warehouse and business intelligence.
2. To provide in-depth knowledge of dimension modelling.
3. To learn how to build and use data warehouse for various applications like Retail Sales,
Order Management, Inventory, Customer Relationship Management.

Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to
1. Create the dimension model for any application.
2. Perform ETL process on source data and send it to data warehouse database.
3. Analyse the data for various applications.

Unit Topics Lectures

Unit I Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, and Dimensional Modeling 10
Primer
Different Worlds of Data Capture and Data Analysis, Goals of Data
Warehousing and Business Intelligence, Dimensional Modeling
Introduction, Kimball’s DW/BI Architecture, Alternative DW/BI
Architectures, Dimensional Modeling Myths.
Unit II Kimball Dimensional Modeling Techniques Overview 10
Fundamental Concepts, Basic Fact Table Techniques, Basic Dimension Table
Techniques, Integration via Conformed Dimensions, Dealing with Slowly
Changing Dimension Attributes, Dealing with Dimension Hierarchies.
Unit III Retail Sales 10
Four-Step Dimensional Design Process, Retail Case Study, Dimension Table
Details, Retail Schema in Action, Retail Schema Extensibility, Fact less Fact
Tables, Dimension and Fact Table Keys, Resisting Normalization Urges.
Order Management
Order Management Bus Matrix, Order Transactions, Invoice Transactions,
Accumulating Snapshot for Order Fulfilment Pipeline.
Unit IV Inventory 10
Value Chain Introduction, Inventory Models, Fact Table Types, Value Chain
Integration, Enterprise Data Warehouse Bus Architecture, Conformed
Dimensions.
Customer Relationship Management
Overview, Customer Dimension Attributes, Bridge Tables for Multivalued
Dimensions, Complex Customer Behavior, Customer Data Integration
Approaches, Low Latency Reality Check.

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References
1. “The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Definitive Guide to Dimensional Modeling”, Ralph
Kimball Margy Ross, Wiley.
2. “The Data Warehouse ETL Toolkit: Practical Techniques for Extracting, Cleaning,
Conforming, and Delivering Data”, Ralph Kimball, Joe Caserta.
3. “Building the Data Warehouse”, Fourth Edition, W. H. Inmon, Wiley.

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Course Code Course Name Group Teaching Credits
Scheme
(Hrs/Week)
Lectures Practical
RJSPGITDSAI103 Artificial Intelligence CC 4 - 4
Course Objectives
1. To gain a historical perspective of AI and its foundations.
2. To become familiar with basic principles of AI toward problem solving, inference,
perception, knowledge representation, and learning.
3. To investigate applications of AI techniques in intelligent agents, expert systems, artificial
neural networks and other machine learning models.
4. Experience AI development tools such as an ‘AI language’, expert system shell, and/or data
mining tool.

Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to
1. Demonstrate fundamental understanding of the history of artificial intelligence (AI) and its
foundations
2. Apply basic principles of AI in solutions that require problem solving, inference,
perception, knowledge representation, and learning.
3. Demonstrate awareness and a fundamental understanding of various applications of AI
techniques in intelligent agents, expert systems, artificial neural networks and other
machine learning models.
4. Demonstrate proficiency developing applications in an 'AI language’.

Unit Topics Lectures

Unit I Introduction and Problem Solving 10
Introduction
What is AI? Foundation of AI, History of AI Intelligent Agents: Agents and
Environment, concept of Rationality, Nature of Environments, Structure of
Agents.
Problem Solving
Problem Solving Agents, Example Problems, searching for solutions,
Uninformed search strategies – (Breadth First, Uniform cost, Depth First,
Depth Limited, Iterative deepening depth first, bidirectional), informed
search strategies – (Greedy best first, A*, Optimality of A*, Memory
bounded), Heuristic Functions.
Beyond Classical Search
Local search algorithms and optimization problems, local search in
continuous spaces, searching with non-deterministic actions, searching with
partial observations, online search agents and unknown environments.
Adversarial Search
Games, Optimal decision in games, Alpha--Beta Pruning, Imperfect RealTime
Decisions, Stochastic Games, Partially Observable Games, Defining
Constraint Satisfaction Problems, Constraint Propagation: Inference in CSPs,
Backtracking Search for CSPs.

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Unit II Knowledge, Reasoning and Planning 10
Logical Agents
Knowledge-Based Agents, Propositional Logic, Propositional Theorem
Proving, Horn clauses and definite clauses, Forward and backward chaining,
Effective Propositional Model Checking
First Order Logic
Syntax and Semantics of First-Order Logic, using First order logic,
Knowledge
Engineering in First-Order Logic
Inference in First Order Logic
Unification and Lifting, Forward Chaining, Backward chaining, resolution
Classical Planning and Acting
Definition, Algorithms for Planning as State-Space Search, planning graphs,
analysis of planning approaches.
Unit III Uncertain Planning and Reasoning 10
Quantifying Uncertainty
Acting under Uncertainty, Basic Probability Notation, Inference Using Full
Joint Distributions, Independence, Bayes' Rule and Its Use.
Probabilistic Reasoning
Representing Knowledge in an Uncertain Domain, The Semantics of
Bayesian Networks, Efficient Representation of Conditional Distributions,
Relational and First-Order Probability Models.
Making Simple Decisions
The Basis of Utility Theory, Utility Functions, Multiattribute Utility Functions,
Decision Networks, The Value of Information.
Making Complex Decisions
Sequential Decision Problems, Value Iteration, Policy Iteration, Partially
Observable MDPs, Decisions with Multiple Agents: Game Theory,
Mechanism Design.
Unit IV Uncertain Planning and Reasoning 10
Quantifying Uncertainty
Acting under Uncertainty, Basic Probability Notation, Inference Using Full
Joint Distributions, Independence, Bayes' Rule and Its Use.
Probabilistic Reasoning
Representing Knowledge in an Uncertain Domain, The Semantics of
Bayesian Networks, Efficient Representation of Conditional Distributions,
Relational and First-Order Probability Models.
Making Simple Decisions
The Basis of Utility Theory, Utility Functions, Multiattribute Utility
Functions, Decision Networks, The Value of Information.
Making Complex Decisions
Sequential Decision Problems, Value Iteration, Policy Iteration, Partially
Observable MDPs, Decisions with Multiple Agents: Game
Theory, Mechanism Design.

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References
1. “Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach”, 3rd Edition, Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig,
Hawkins, J. and Blakeslee, S. On Intelligence. Times Books, 2004.
2. “Artificial Intelligence theory and practice”, Dean, T., Allen, J. and Aloimonos, Y., New York:
Benjamin Cummings,1995.
3. “Essentials of Artificial Intelligence “, Ginsberg, M., Palo Alto, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 1993.
4. “The Description Logic Handbook: Theory, Implementation and Applications “, Baader, F.,
Calvanese, D., McGuinness, D., Nardi, D., & Patel-Schneider, P., Cambridge University Press,
2003.
5. “Knowledge Representation”, Brachman, R. J. & Levesque, H. J., New York: Elsevier,2004.
6. “Expert Systems and Probabilistic Network Models”, Castillo, E., Gutierrez, J. M., Hadi, A. S.,
Berlin: Springer, 1996.
7. “Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition”, Bishop, C. M., New York: Oxford University
Press, 1995.

PG Labs
Course Code Course Name Group Teaching Scheme Credits
(Hrs/Week)
Lectures Practical
RJSPGITDSAI1L1 PG Lab – I PGL - 2 2
Statistics of Data Science
Practical List:

1. Data Collection, Modelling and Compilation.

2. Data Visualization.
3. Exploratory data analysis.
4. Exploring Binary and categorical data.
5. Data and sampling distributions.
6. Significance testing.
7. Data transformations and quality analysis.
8. Hypothesis testing.
9. Regression and prediction.
10. Logistic Regression

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Course Code Course Name Group Teaching Scheme Credits

(Hrs/Week)
Lectures Practical
RJSPGITDSAI1L2 PG Lab – II PGL - 2 2
Data Warehousing
Practical List:

1. Creating the database using various constraints.

2. Using DDL, DML, DCL and TCL statements.
3. Introduction to ER model and Relational Model.
4. Creating Dimension Model for a Datawarehouse.
5. Loading data into the dimension and fact tables.
6. Validating data while loading into a warehouse.
7. ETL - Staging process.
8. Creation of Cube.
9. Using data analysis services for data mining.
10.Creating Reports and charts.

Course Code Course Name Group Teaching Scheme Credits

(Hrs/Week)
Lectures Practical
RJSPGITDSAI1L3 PG Lab - III PGL - 2 2
Artificial Intelligence
Practical List:

1. Write a programme to conduct uninformed

search.(BFS,DFS etc)
2. Write a programme to conduct informed
search.(A*, AO*)
3. Write a programme to conduct heuristic search.(Hill
Climbing)
4. Write a programme to conduct game search.(Tic-
tac-toe,N-Queen,Tower of Hanoi)
5. Simple/Multiple Linear Regression.
6. Bayesian Classification.
7. Decision tree Classification.
8. Write a programme to do reinforcement learning in
a grid world.
9. Write a programme to run value and policy iteration
in a grid world.
10. Implement Artificial Neural Network.

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Professional Electives
Course Code Course Name Group Teaching Scheme Credits
(Hrs/Week)
Lectures Practical
RJSPGITDSAI1P1 Professional Elective – I: PE 3 - 3
Python for Data Science
Course Objectives
1. To learn the concepts of python programming.
2. To provide in-depth knowledge python.
3. To learn how to build and create program for various applications in data science, Data Analysis,
Data analysis.

Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to
1. Create the programs in python for different application.
2. Perform cleansing on data and various functions and classes.
3. Enable students to programming in object-oriented programming.

Unit Topics Lectures

Unit I Introduction of high-level language: 10
Keywords and identifiers, statements & comments, python variables, Datatypes
and type conversion, I/O and import, python operators, Namespace.

Python Flow Control:

If-else, for and while loop, continue and break statement, pass, try catch,

Python Functions:
Functions and arguments, recursion function, lambda function, Built-in function
global local functions, Global keywords, Modules and Packages.

Unit II Python Datatypes: 10

Numbers, List, Tuple, Array, string, Set, Dictionary.

Python Files:
File operation, Directory, Exception handling.

Python Object & Class:

Introduction of OPPs, class, Inheritance, operator overloading.

Unit III Exploratory Data Analysis: data analysis with pandas dataframe, data cleansing, 10
report generation and web scrapping.

Visual Data Analysis: Pyplot, Plotting, Markers, Line, Labels, Grid, Subplot,
Scatter, Bars, histogram, Piecharts, heatmap, boxplot.

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Unit IV Advance Python Programming 10

File handling, read and write files, delete file, with statement.
map, itr and zip functions, Regular Expression, abstract classes, constructors and
destructors, decorators and Generators

References
1. “Programming Python, Book by Mark Lutz. ”
2. “Fluent Python, Book by Luciano Ramalho.”
3. “https://www.w3schools.com/python/default.asp”

Course Code Course Name Group Teaching Credits

Scheme
(Hrs/Week)
Lectures Practical
RJSPGITDSAI1P1 Professional Elective – I: PE 3 - 3
Mathematics for Data Science
Course Objectives
1. To learn the concepts of mathematics that used in field of Data Science.
2. To provide in-depth knowledge of Linear Algebra and Calculus.

Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to
1. Demonstrate understanding of basic mathematical concepts in data science, relating to linear
algebra, and calculus
2. Employ methods related to these concepts in a variety of data science applications.
3. Apply logical thinking to problem-solving in context.
4. Use appropriate technology to aid problem-solving and data analysis.

Unit Topics Lectures

Unit I Linear Algebra: Scalars, Vectors, Matrices and their properties, Vector Addition 10
and Multiplication, Norm of a vector, Dot product of two vectors, Cross products ,
Relation between norm and dot product, Orthogonal and Orthonormal Vectors,
Linear Independence of vectors, Linear Dependence and span

Scalars, Vectors and Matrices: Matrices,

Visualizing matrices, Determinants, Properties of
Matrices, Matrix multiplication, Types of
Matrices, Transpose of matrix, Identity and
Inverse of a Matrix, Determinant of a Matrix

Eigens: Eigen values, Eigen Vectors

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Unit II Functions: 10
Functions, New Functions from Old, Families of Functions, Inverse Functions;
Inverse Trigonometric Functions, Exponential and Logarithmic Functions
LIMITS AND CONTINUITY:
Limits , Computing Limits, Limits at Infinity; End Behaviour of a Function,
Continuity, Continuity of Trigonometric, Exponential, and Inverse Functions
THE DERIVATIVE:
Tangent Lines and Rates of Change, The Derivative Function, Introduction to
Techniques of Differentiation, The Product and Quotient Rules, Derivatives of
Trigonometric Functions, The Chain Rule, Euclidian Geometry
Unit III DIFFERENTIATION: 10
Implicit Differentiation, Derivatives of Logarithmic Functions, Derivatives of
Exponential and Inverse Trigonometric Functions
THE DERIVATIVE IN GRAPHING AND APPLICATIONS:
Analysis of Functions I: Increase, Decrease, and Concavity, Analysis of Functions II:
Relative Extrema; Graphing Polynomials, Absolute Maxima and Minima, Applied
Maximum and Minimum Problems, Rolle’s Theorem; Mean-Value Theorem
Unit IV INTEGRATION: 10
An Overview of the Area Problem, The Indefinite Integral , Integration by
Substitution , The Definition of Area as a Limit; Sigma Notation, The Definite
Integral, The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, Rectilinear Motion Revisited
Using Integration, Average Value of a Function and its Applications, Evaluating
Definite Integrals by Substitution, Logarithmic and Other Functions Defined by
Integrals
PARTIAL DERIVATIVES:
Functions of Two or More Variables, Limits and Continuity, Partial Derivatives,
Differentiability, Differentials, and Local Linearity, The Chain Rule, Directional
Derivatives and Gradients, Tangent Planes and Normal Vectors, Maxima and
Minima of Functions of Two Variables
References
1. Calculus: by Howard Anton

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Career Advancement Course

Course Code Course Name Group Teaching Credits

Scheme
(Hrs/Week)
Lectures Practical
RJSPGITDSAI1I1 Research in Computing CAC 2 - 2
Course Objectives
1. To be able to conduct business research with an understanding of all
2. the latest theories.
3. To develop the ability to explore research techniques used for solving
4. any real world or innovate problem.
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to
1. Use various stages of research process.
2. Apply research methods.
3. Use various methods for data collection.
4. Apply the methods of measurement and sampling.

Unit Topics Lectures

Unit I Introduction: research meaning and characteristic, research objectives, 10
Positivism and postpositivistic approach to research.
Business Research: Role of Business Research, Information Systems and
Knowledge Management, Theory Building, Organization ethics and Issues.

Beginning Stages of Research Process: Problem definition, Qualitative

research, Quantitative Research, primary and Secondary data research.

Unit II Research Methods and Data Collection: Survey research, communicating 10

with respondents, Observation methods, Descriptive and experimental
Research type, Inductive and deductive approach, Action research,
research steps.

Formulation of research problem: problem selection, literature review,

formulation of hypothesis.

Variables: dependent, independent and Intervening variables.

Unit III Data collection and sampling: Probability sampling, Non probability 10
sampling, Survey method, contact method, questioner.
Selection of project domain: Publication ethics, Tools and evaluation.
Selection of tentative project area and process of literature survey –
Literature survey components and procedures Basic components of a
research paper – procedures and processes, Journal types, Scopus, web of
science, Science Citation Index, H-index, Google citations.

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Unit IV Research Paper Writing 10

Title selection, paragraph writing, report design, conclusion formation,
diagrams and equation, citations, plagiarism, paper format, scopes index
journals, predatory journals, digital object identifier/ISBN number and
publication, research ethics.

Presentation of selected project proposal: Oral presentation. Preparation

of a report on the selected project proposal, Attending special invited
lectures, practical orientation in searching and collecting literature
through library, online tools, presenting a seminar on selected project.
References
1. “Business Research Methods”, William G. Zikmund, B J Babin, J.C. Carr, Atanu
Adhikari, M. griffin, Cengage,8e, 2016.
2. “Business Analytics”, Albright Winston, Cengage 5e, 2015.

Semester II
Course Code Course Name Group Teaching Credits
Scheme
(Hrs/Week)
Lectures Practical
RJSPGITDSAI201 Machine Learning CC 4 - 4
Course Objectives
1. To introduce various statistical and machine learning concepts and methods.
2. To introduce machine learning solutions to regression, classification and clustering
problems.
3. To evaluate and interpret the results of algorithm.

Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to
1. Perform end-to-end process of investigating data through a machine learning lens.
2. Extract and identify best features of data.
3. Evaluate the performance of machine learning algorithms.

Unit Topics Lectures

Unit I Data Pre-processing: 10
What is Dataset, different sources of repository/different format, data
pipeline and flow, web scraping and ethics, understandability of data,
training and testing data, Instance-base and model base learning, ML vs
traditional programming, MLDLC, challenges in ML

Feature Engineering: Feature transformation, feature construction, feature

scaling(Standardization & Normalization), feature
extraction(PCA,LDA),function and power transformation.

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Unit II Supervised Learning: 10

Regression: what is regression, linear model and linear seperabality, types
of LR, bestfit-line, relationship, cost function, accuracy metrics, where LR
fails, optimize using gradient decent, Polynomial regression.
Regularization: Overfitting vs underfitting, Ridge, lasso and ElasticNet
regression.
Classification: what is classification, logistic regression, SVM, KNN, Decision
tree, Random forest, Naive bayes, data imbalance, classification metrics
and precision and recall. Repressor vs classifier.
Ensemble Learning: Introduction to ensemble learning, Voting ensembles,
Bagging techniques, Hyperparamter tuning, AdaBost Algorithm, stacking
and blending, bagging vs boosting.

Unit III Unsupervised Learning: 10

Clustering: whyclustering, partition, Hierarchical, Density and grid based
clustering application of unsupervised learning.

Association Rule Learning: Market Basket analysis, support, confidence and

lift, Apriori algorithm, F-P growth.

Dimensionality Reduction: curse of dimensionality, Principal Component

Analysis, t-sne, auto-encoders.
Unit IV Reinforcement Learning: Value functions, Bellman’s equation, value 10
iteration, policy iteration, Markov Decision processes(MDPs) Q-Learning.

Time series analysis(TSA):what is TSA and it significance, component of

time series, limitation of TSA, station and non-station data and conversion,
auto regressive model(AR),ARIMA,SARIMA model, time series model
selection.

References
1. “An Introduction to Statistical Learning With Application in R”, By Gareth James, Daniela
Witten, Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, Springer Texts in Statistics.
2. “Machine Learning”, Mitchell Tom, McGraw Hill,1997.
3. “Pattern classification”, 2nd edition, Richard O. Duda, Peter E. Hart, David G. Stork. Wiley,
New York, 2001.
4. “Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective”, Kevin P. Murphy, MIT Press, 2012 5.
“Practical Data Science”, Andreas Francois Vermeulen, APress, 2018
6. “Principles of Data Science”, Sinan Ozdemir, Packt, 2016.

Course Code Course Name Group Teaching Credits

Scheme
(Hrs/Week)
Lectures Practical
RJSPGITDSAI202 Big Data Technology CC 4 - 4

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Course Objectives
1. To provide knowledge of basic and advanced methods of big data technology and tools.
2. To provide the knowledge of MapReduce, Hadoop and its ecosystem.
3. To provide hands-on training that enable effective participation in big data projects.

Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to
1. Apply Hadoop ecosystem components.
2. Build and maintain reliable, scalable and distributed systems with Apache Hadoop.
3. Apply big data concepts to various use cases.
4. Develop application using Zookeeper and Monitoring the cluster.

Unit Topics Lectures

Unit I INTRODUCTION TO BIG DATA 10
Introduction: Distributed file system, Big Data and its importance, Four Vs,
Drivers for Big data, Big data analytics, Big data applications. Algorithms
using map reduce, Matrix-Vector Multiplication by Map Reduce.
INTRODUCTION HADOOP
Big Data: Apache Hadoop & Hadoop Ecosystem, Moving Data in and out of
Hadoop, Understanding inputs and outputs of MapReduce, Data
Serialization.
Unit II HADOOP ARCHITECTURE 10
Hadoop Architecture, Hadoop Storage: HDFS, Common Hadoop Shell
commands, Anatomy of File Write and Read., Name Node, Secondary Name
Node, and Data Node, Hadoop MapReduce paradigm, Map and Reduce
tasks, Job, Task trackers, Cluster Setup, SSH & Hadoop Configuration, HDFS
Administering, Monitoring & Maintenance.
Unit III HADOOP ECOSYSTEM AND YARN 10
Hadoop ecosystem components: Schedulers, Fair and Capacity, Hadoop 2.0
New Features Name Node High Availability, HDFS Federation, MRv2, YARN,
Running MRv1 in YARN.
Unit IV Hive and HiveQL, HBase 10
Hive Architecture and Installation, Comparison with Traditional Database.
HiveQL
Querying Data, Sorting and Aggregating, Map Reduce Scripts, Joins &
Subqueries.
HBase concepts
Advanced Usage, Schema Design, Advance Indexing, PIG, Zookeeper, how it
helps in monitoring a cluster, HBase uses Zookeeper and how to Build
Applications with Zookeeper.
References
1. “Professional Hadoop Solutions”, Boris lublinsky, Kevin t. Smith, Alexey Yakubovich, Wiley,
ISBN: 9788126551071, 2015.
2. “Understanding Big data”, Chris Eaton, Dirk deroos et al, McGraw Hill, 2012.
3. “HADOOP: The definitive Guide”, Tom White, O Reilly 2012. 6 IT2015 SRM(E&T)
4. “Big Data Analytics with R and Hadoop”, Vignesh Prajapati, Packet Publishing 2013

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5. “Oracle Big Data Handbook”, Tom Plunkett, Brian Macdonald et al, Oracle Press, 2014.
6. “Big Data and Business analytics”, Jy Liebowitz, CRC press, 2013.
7. http://www.bigdatauniversity.com

Course Code Course Name Group Teaching Scheme Credits

(Hrs/Week)
Lectures Practical
RJSPGITDSAI203 Soft Computing CC 4 - 4
Course Objectives
1. To Provide the knowledge of soft computing concepts like fuzzy logic, neural networks and
genetic algorithm, where Artificial Intelligence is mother branch of all.
2. To learn effective techniques and their roles in building intelligent systems.
3. To learn how to use neural networks for classification and regression problems.

Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to
1. Identify and describe soft computing techniques and their roles in building intelligent
machines.
2. Select soft computing methodology to solve a particular problem.
3. Apply fuzzy logic and reasoning to solve engineering problems.
4. Apply genetic algorithms to combinatorial optimization problems.
5. Apply neural networks for classification and regression problems.
6. Evaluate and compare solutions by various soft computing approaches for a given problem.

Unit Topics Lectures

Unit I Introduction 10
Introduction of soft computing, soft computing vs. hard computing, various
types of soft computing techniques, Fuzzy Computing, Neural Computing,
Genetic Algorithms, Associative Memory, Adaptive Resonance Theory,
Classification, Clustering, Bayesian Networks, Probabilistic reasoning,
applications of soft computing.
Unit II Artificial Neural Network 10
Fundamental concept, Evolution of Neural Networks, Basic Models,
McCullohPitts Neuron, Linear Separability, Hebb Network.
Supervised Learning Network
Perceptron Networks, Adaptive Linear Neuron, Multiple Adaptive Linear
Neurons, Backpropagation Network, Radial Basis Function, Time Delay
Network, Functional Link Networks, Tree Neural Network.
Associative Memory Networks
Training algorithm for pattern Association, Autoassociative memory network,
hetroassociative memory network, bi-directional associative memory,
Hopfield networks, iterative autoassociative memory networks, temporal
associative memory networks.
Unit III Unsupervised Learning Networks 10

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Fixed weight competitive nets, Kohonen self-organizing feature maps, learning

vectors quantization, counter propagation networks, adaptive resonance
theory networks. Special Networks
Simulated annealing, Boltzmann machine, Gaussian Machine, Cauchy
Machine, Probabilistic neural net, cascade correlation network, cognition
network, neo-cognition network, cellular neural network, optical neural
network.
Third Generation Neural Networks
Spiking Neural networks, convolutional neural networks, deep learning neural
networks, extreme learning machine model.

Unit IV Introduction to Fuzzy Logic, Classical Sets and Fuzzy sets Classical 10
sets, Fuzzy sets.
Classical Relations and Fuzzy Relations
Cartesian Product of relation, classical relation, fuzzy relations, tolerance and
equivalence relations, non-iterative fuzzy sets.
Genetic Algorithm
Biological Background, Traditional optimization and search techniques, genetic
algorithm and search space, genetic algorithm vs. traditional algorithms, basic
terminologies, simple genetic algorithm, general genetic algorithm, operators
in genetic algorithm, stopping condition for genetic algorithm flow, constraints
in genetic algorithm, problem solving using genetic algorithm.

References
1. “Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing”, Anandita Battacharya Das, SPD 3rd, 2018.
2. “Principles of Soft computing”, S.N.Sivanandan, S.N.Deepa, Wiley 3rd,2019.
3. “Neuro-Fuzzy and Soft Computing”, J.S.R.Jang, C.T.Sun and E.Mizutani, Prentice Hall of India,
2004.
4. “Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic and Genetic Algorithms: Synthesis & Applications”,
S.Rajasekaran, G. A. Vijayalakshami , Prentice Hall of India. 2004.
5. “Fuzzy Logic with Engineering Applications”, Timothy J.Ross, McGraw-Hill, 1997.

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PG Labs
Course Code Course Name Group Teaching Scheme Credits
(Hrs/Week)
RJSPGITDSAI2L1 PG Lab – III PGL - 2 2
Machine Learning
Practical List:

1. All Feature Engineering Operations.

2. Simple and Multiple linear regression.
3. Logistics regression, SVM and KNN
4. Regularization with Penalty
5. Ensemble learning
6. Clustering using K-means and DBScan.
7. Dimensionality reduction techniques
8. Market Basket Analysis using Apriori
Algorithm
9. Time Series Model
10. Q Learning

Course Code Course Name Group Teaching Scheme Credits

(Hrs/Week)
RJSPGITDSAI2L2 PG Lab – IV PGL - 2 2
Big Data Technology
Practical List:

1. Setting Single node Hadoop cluster using Ubuntu and HDFS.

2. Configuration of Multiple node Hadoop cluster.
3. Fie management in HDFS.
4. Creating application using MapReduce.
5. Word Count application using Hadoop Eclipse.
6. Handling unstructured data using NoSQL.
7. Querying, Sorting and Aggregating data using HiveQL.
8. Map Reduce Scripts, Joins & Subqueries using HiveQL.
9. Schema design using HBase.
10. Using Mahout Library for big data analysis.
11. Building application with Zookeeper.

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Course Code Course Name Group Teaching Scheme Credits

(Hrs/Week)
RJSPGITDSAI2L3 PG Lab – III PGL - 2 2
Soft Computing
Practical List:
Implement the following:
1. Design a simple linear neural network
model.
2. Calculate the output of neural net using
both binary and bipolar sigmoidal function.
Implement the following:
1. Generate AND/NOT function using
McCulloch-Pitts neural net.
2. Generate XOR function using McCulloch-
Pitts neural net.
Implement the Following
1. Write a program to implement Hebb’s rule.
2. Write a program to implement of delta rule.
Implement the Following
1. Write a program for Back Propagation
Algorithm
2. Write a program for error Backpropagation
algorithm.
Implement the Following
1. Write a program for Hopfield Network.
2. Write a program for Radial Basis function.
Implement the Following
1. Kohonen Self organizing map.
2. Adaptive resonance theory.
Implement the Following
1. Write a program for Linear separation.
Implement the Following
2. Membership and Identity Operators | in, not
in, is, is not.
Implement the Following
3. Find ratios using fuzzy logic
4. Solve Tipping problem using fuzzy logic.
Implement the Following
1. Implementation of Simple genetic algorithm
2. Create two classes: City and Fitness using
Genetic algorithm

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Professional Electives
Course Code Course Name Group Teaching Credits
Scheme
(Hrs/Week)
Lectures Practical
RJSPGITDSAI2P2 Data Science in Cloud PE 3 - 3
Computing
Course Objectives
1. To study the fundamental aspects of cloud environment, deployment models and different
services offered by cloud.
2. To study various techniques of virtualization.
3. To Study security issues in cloud computing.

Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to 1.
Design of computer clusters for scalable parallel computing.
2. Understand virtualization of clusters and Data centers along with various cloud computing and
Service models-PaaS, SaaS, IaaS.
3. Apply various aspects of security to cloud clusters.

Unit Topics Lectures

Unit I Cloud Computing Basics 10
Cloud Enabling Technologies, Characteristics of Cloud Computing, Benefits of
Cloud Computing, Cloud Service Models, Cloud Deployment models, Cloud
computing Infrastructure, Cloud Challenges.
Unit II Virtualization Fundamentals 10
Virtualization-Enabling technology for cloud computing, Types of Virtualization,
Server Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization, Memory Virtualization, Application
and Storage Virtualization, Tools and Products available for Virtualization.
Unit III SaaS, PaaS, Iaas And Cloud Storage 10
Getting started with SaaS, Understanding the multitenant nature of SaaS solutions,
Understanding Open SaaS Solutions, Understanding Service Oriented Architecture,
PaaS, Benefits and Limitations of PaaS.
Understanding IaaS, improving performance through Load balancing, Server Types
within IaaS solutions, utilizing cloud based NAS devices.
Understanding Cloud based data storage, Cloud based backup devices, Cloud based
database solutions, Cloud based block storage.

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Unit IV Cloud Application Development and Security Management & Privacy in Cloud 10
Client Server Distributed Architecture for cloud – Traditional apps vs. Cloud
AppsClient-side programming model: Web clients. Mobile clients, Server-Side
Programming Technologies
AJAX, JSON, Web Services (RPC, REST), MVC Design Patterns for Cloud Application
Development.
Security Management in the Cloud
Security Management Standards, Security Management in the Cloud, Availability
Management, SaaS Availability Management, PaaS Availability
Management, IaaS Availability Management, Access Control,
Security Vulnerability, Patch, and Configuration Management.
Privacy in Cloud
Privacy, Data Life Cycle, Key Privacy Concems in the Cloud. Protecting Privacy,
Privacy Risk Management and Compliance in Relatior to Cloud Computing.
References
1. “Cloud Computing: A Practical Approach”, Anthony T. Velte, Toby J. Velte, Robert Elsenpeter,
Tata McGraw Hill Edition, Fourth Reprint, 2010.
2. “Cloud Computing: SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, Virtualization, Business Models, Mobile, Security and more”,
Kris Jamsa, Jones & Bartlett Learning Company LLC, 2013.
3. “Cloud Security: A Comprehensive Guide to Secure Cloud Computing”, Ronald L. Krutz, Russell
vines, Wiley Publishing Inc., 2010.
4. “Cloud Security and Privacy an Enterprise perspective on Risk and Compliance”, Tim Mather,
Subra Kumaraswamy, and Shahed Latif, O'Reilly.
5. “Security and privacy in Internet of Things Models Algorithms and Implementations”, Fe Hu, CRC
Press.
6. “Cloud Security”, Ronald Krutz and Russell Dean Vines, Wiley, India.

Course Code Course Name Group Teaching Credits

Scheme
(Hrs/Week)
Lectures Practical
RJSPGITDSAI2P2 Image Processing & Computer PE 3 - 3
Vision
Course Objectives
1. To study the image fundamentals and mathematical transforms necessary for image
processing.
2. To study the image enhancement, restoration and compression techniques.
3. To study computer vision technique.

Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to
1. Analyse images in the frequency domain using various transforms.
2. Evaluate the techniques for computer vision.
3. Categorize various OpenCv techniques.
4. Interpret computer vision standards.
5. Interpret image segmentation and representation techniques.

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Unit Topics Lectures

Unit I Introduction to Image-processing System : Introduction, Image Sampling, 10
Quantization, Resolution, Human Visual Systems, Elements of an Image-
processing System, Applications of Digital Image Processing

2D Correlation Image Transforms: Need for transform, image transforms,

Fourier transform, 2D Discrete Fourier Transform, Properties of 2D DFT,
Importance of Phase, Walsh transform, Hadamard transform, Haar transform,
Slant transform, Discrete Cosine transform, KL transform

Unit II Image Enhancement : Image Enhancement in spatial domain, Enhancement 10

trough Point operations, Histogram manipulation, Linear and nonlinear Gray
Level Transformation, local or neighborhood operation, Median Filter, Spatial
domain High pass filtering, Bit-plane slicing, Image Enhancement in frequency
domain, Homomorphic filter, Zooming operation,

Colour Image processing : Colour images, Colour Model, Colour image

quantization, Smoothing and sharpening,Image segmentation bases on colour,
Noise in colour images
Unit III Morphological Image Processing: Introduction, Erosion and Dilation, Opening 10
and closing, History, Miss transformation, Basic morphological algorithms, Gray
scale morphology.

Image Segmentation: Image segmentation techniques, Region approach,

Clustering techniques, Thresholding, Edge-based segmentation, Edge detection,
Edge Linking, Hough Transform

Image Compression: Need for image compression, Redundancy in images,

Image-compression scheme, Fundamentals of Information Theory, Run-length
coding, Shannon-Fano coding, Huffman Coding, Arithmetic Coding, Transform-
based compression, Image-compression standard.
Unit IV Introduction to computer vision: Image processing vs computer vision, 10
Overview of problems of machine vision and pattern classification, Image
formation and processing, Feature extraction from images, Biological object
recognition, Bayesian modeling and inference, Object detection and recognition,
Morphable models, object tracking and detection, Genture recognition. Image
formation:radiometry, shape from shading, image formation, background
modeling and motion estimation, sementic segmentation

Deep learning for computer vision: Convolutional neural network, Recurrent

neural network and image caption generator, deep generative model, recent
trends.
References
1) Digital Image Processing, S Jayaraman, S Esakkirajan, T Veerakumar,Tata McGraw-Hill Education
Pvt. Ltd., 2009.
2) Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications 2nd Edition Richard Szeliski.

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Career Advancement Course

Course Code Course Name Group Teaching Credits

Scheme
(Hrs/Week)
Lectures Practical
RJSPGITDSAI2I1 Business Intelligence and CAC 2 - 2
Analytics
Course Objectives
1. To understand how accurately represent voluminous complex data set in business
intelligence analytics.
2. To understand the methodologies used to visualize large data sets.
3. To understand the process involved in business processes and visualization aspects involved
in data visualization.

Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to
1. Design and use various methodologies present in business inteligence
2. Design the process involved Power BI and Tableu present.

Unit Topics Lectures

Unit I Introduction to Business Intelligence: BI concept, I architecture, BI in 10
today’s perspective, BI Process Applications of BI like Financial analysis,
statistical analysis, sales analysis CRM,ERP , result pattern, and ranking
analysis, Balanced Scorecard, BI in Decision Modelling: Optimization,
Decision making under uncertainty. Ethics and business intelligence.
Logistic and production models: Supply chain optimization, Optimization
modelsfor logistics planning, Revenue management systems.
Data envelopment analysis: Efficiency measures, Efficient frontier, The CCR
model, Identification of good operating practices
Unit II Data Visualization and Dashboard Design : Responsibilities of BI analysts 10
by focusing on creating data visualizations and dashboards. Importance of
data visualization, types of basic and composite charts
Performance Dashboard: Measuring, Monitoring and management of
Business, KPIs and dashboard, the types of dashboards, the common
characteristics of Enterprise dashboard, design of enterprise dashboards,
and the common pitfalls of dashboard design.
Unit III Power BI: introduction to power BI, natural-language queries, power BI 10
Visualization charts, BI reports and dashboard.
Tableau: uploading excel file, text and different files, Bins, Joining tables
and data blending, Report generation, set and combined sets, data labels,
sorting data and perform aggregation function, data visualization, custom
sql, tableau advance reports and calculations, dashboard design dataserver.

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Unit IV Modelling and Analysis: Exploring Excel Modeling capabilities to solve 10

business problems, summarize and present selected data, introduction to
business metrics and KPIs, creating cubes using Microsoft Excel
Future of Business Intelligence: Emerging Technologies, Machine Learning,
Predicting the Future with the help of Data Analysis, BI Search & Text
Analytics – Advanced Visualization – Rich Report.
References
1. “Interactive data visualization for the web”, Scott Murray, O’Reilly Media, Inc., 2013.
2. “Visualizing Data”, Ben Fry, O’Reilly Media, Inc., 2007.
3. “Security Data Visualization: Graphical Techniques for Network Analysis”, Greg Conti, No
Starch Press Inc, 2007.

Semester III
Course Code Course Name Group Teaching Credits
Scheme
(Hrs/Week)
Lectures Practical
RJSPGITDSAI301 Machine Learning - II CC 4 - 4
Course Objectives
1. To give a comprehensive coverage of analysis methods like cross validation and bootstrap.
2. To study linear and non-linear models, model selection and regularization.
3. To study highly effective analysis methods like decision trees, Forests and Support Vector
machines.

Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to
1. Apply various data analysis concepts to the data sets.
2. Apply quantitative modelling and data analysis techniques to solve real-world business
problems.
3. Analyse data using efficient linear and non-linear models.
4. Analyse data using decision trees, Forests and Support Vector machines.

Unit Topics Lectures

Unit I Resampling Methods 10
Cross validation, the bootstrap.
Linear model Selection and Regularization
Subset selection, shrinkage methods, dimension reduction methods,
consideration in high dimensions.
Unit II Moving Beyond Linearity 10
Polynomial regression, step functions, basis function, regression splines,
smoothing splines, local regression, generalized addictive models.

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Unit III Tree and forest 10

The basics of decision tree classifier, decision tree regressor, bagging,
random forest classifier, random forest regressor, boosting.
Unit IV Support Vector Machines 10
Maximal margin classifier, support vector classifiers, support vector
machines, SVMs with more than two classes, relationship to Logistic
regression.
References

1. “An Introduction to Statistical Learning With Application in R”, By Gareth James, Daniela
Witten, Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, Springer Texts in Statistics.
2. “Machine Learning”, Mitchell Tom, McGraw Hill,1997.
3. “Pattern classification”, 2nd edition, Richard O. Duda, Peter E. Hart, David G. Stork. Wiley,
New York, 2001.
4. “Practical Data Science”, Andreas Francois Vermeulen, APress, 2018
5. “Principles of Data Science”, Sinan Ozdemir, Packt, 2016.
6. “Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective”, Kevin P. Murphy, MIT Press, 2012

Course Code Course Name Group Teaching Credits

Scheme
(Hrs/Week)
Lectures Practical
RJSPGITDSAI302 Big Data Analytics CC 4 - 4
Course Objectives
1. To learn the computational approaches to Modeling and Feature Extraction.
2. To Learn the need and application of Map Reduce.
3. To learn the various search algorithms applicable to Big Data.
4. To analyse and interpret streaming data
5. To learn how to handle large data sets in main memory.
6. To learn the various clustering techniques applicable to Big Data.

Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to
1. Design algorithms by employing Map Reduce technique for solving Big Data problems.
2. Design algorithms for Big Data by deciding on Features set.
3. Design algorithms for handling big size datasets and propose solutions for Big Data by
optimizing main memory consumption.
4. Design solutions for problems in Big Data by suggesting appropriate clustering techniques.

Unit Topics Lectures

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Unit I Data Mining and Large-Scale Files 10

Introduction to Statistical modelling, Machine Learning, Computational
approaches to modelling, Summarization, Feature Extraction, Statistical
Limits on Data Mining, Distributed File Systems, Map-reduce, Algorithms
using Map Reduce, Efficiency of Cluster Computing Techniques.
Unit II Mining Data Streams 10
Stream Data Model, Sampling Data in the Stream, Filtering Streams,
Counting Distance Elements in a Stream, Estimating Moments, Counting
Ones in Window, Decaying Windows
Clustering
Introduction to Clustering Techniques, Hierarchical Clustering, Algorithms: K-
Means, CURE, Clustering in Non-Euclidean Spaces, Streams and
Parallelism, Case Study: Advertising on the Web-Recommendation Systems
Unit III Introduction to NOSQL 10
Definition of NOSQL, History of NOSQL and Different NOSQL products,
Exploring MondoDB Java/Ruby/Python, Interfacing and Interacting with
NOSQL 2. NOSQL Basics NOSQL Storage Architecture, CRUD operations with
MongoDB, Querying, Modifying and Managing NOSQL Data stores, Indexing
and ordering datasets (MongoDB/CouchDB/Cassandra)
Unit IV Introduction to Spark 10
Introduction to Spark, Components of the Spark unified stack, Resilient
Distributed Dataset (RDD).
Resilient Distributed Dataset and Data Frames
Creation of parallelized collections and external datasets, Resilient
Distributed Dataset (RDD) operations, shared variables and keyvalue
pairs.
Spark application programming
Purpose and usage of the Spark Context, Initialize Spark with the
various programming languages, Describe and run some Spark
examples, Pass functions to Spark, Create and run a Spark
standalone application, Submit applications to the cluster,
Introduction to Spark libraries.

References

1. “Mining of Massive Datasets”, Jure Leskovec, AnandRajaraman, Jeffrey David Ullman,

Cambridge University Press, Second Edition, 2014.
2. “Data Mining Concepts and Techniques”, Jiawei Han, MichelineKamber, Jian Pei, Morgan
Kaufman Publications, Third Edition, 2011.
3. “Data Mining – Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques”, Ian H.Witten, Eibe
Frank, Morgan Kaufman Publications, Third Edition, 2011.
4. “Principles of Data Mining”, David Hand, HeikkiMannila and Padhraic Smyth, MIT PRESS.
5. Dan Sullivan,"NoSQL for Mere Mortals",1 stEdition, Pearson Education, 2015. (ISBN-13:
978-9332557338)
6. https://cognitiveclass.ai/courses/what-is-spark

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Course Code Course Name Group Teaching Credits

Scheme
(Hrs/Week)
Lectures Practical
RJSPGITDSAI303 Deep Learning CC 4 - 4
Course Objectives
1. To study fundamental concepts of Deep Learning and its applications.
2. To provide knowledge on fundamentals of deep networks, activation functions, loss
functions and hyperparameters.
3. To study feed-forward and backpropagation approaches of deep networks.
4. To study major architectures of deep networks like Convolutional Neural Network,
Recurrent Neural Network, Recursive Neural Network and Autoencoders.

Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to
1. Train and test the various deep networks like Feed Forward Network, Convolutional Neural
Network, Recurrent Neural Network, Autoencoder and Recursive Neural Network.
2. Create the various applications like Face Detection, Handwriting Recognition, Sentiment
Analysis, etc. using Deep Neural Networks.
3. Optimize and Fine Tune the Deep Neural Network.

Unit Topics Lectures

Unit I Fundamentals Concepts of Machine Learning 10
Linear Algebra for machine Learning, Testing, Cross-Validation,
Dimensionality reduction, Over/Under-fitting, Hyper parameters and
validation sets, Estimators, Bias, Variance, Regularization-Introduction to a
simple DNN, Platform for deep learning, Deep learning software libraries.
Deep Feed Forward Networks
Learning XOR, Gradient-Based Learning, Hidden units, Various Activation
Functions, error functions, Architecture Design and other differentiation
algorithms.
Regularization for Deep Learning
Parameter norm penalties, Early Stopping, Drop out.
Unit II Convolutional Neural Networks and Sequence Modeling 10
Convolutional Networks: Convolutional operation, Motivation, Pooling,
Normalization.
Applications in Computer Vision ImageNet.
Sequence Modeling
Recurrent Neural Networks, Difficulty in Training RNN, Encoder, Decoder.

Unit III Auto encoders 10

Under complete, regularized, stochastic, denoising,
contractive, applications, dimensionality reduction, classification,
recommendation, Optimization for Deep Learning: optimizers. RMS Prop
for RNNs, SGD for CNNs.

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Unit IV Deep Architectures in Vision 10

Alexnet to ResNet, Transfer learning, Siamese Networks, Metric Learning,
Ranking/Triplet loss, RCNNs, CNN, RNN, Applications in captioning and video
tasks, 3D CNNs.
References
1. “Deep Learning”, Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville, MIT Press, 2016
(available at http://www.deeplearningbook.org)
2. “Deep Learning: A Practitioner’s Approach”, Josh Patterson and Adam Gibson, O’Reilly,
2017.
3. “Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective”, Kevin P. Murphy, MIT Press, 2012
4. “Neural Networks and Deep Learning”, Michael Nielsen,
Online book, 2016 (http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/)
5. “Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning”, Christopher and M. Bishop, Springer Science
Business Media, 2006.
6. “Deep Learning with Python”, Jason Brownlee, eBook, 2016
7. “Deep Learning Step by Step with Python: A Very Gentle Introduction to Deep Neural
Networks for Practical Data Science”, N. D. Lewis.

PG Labs
Course Code Course Name Group Teaching Scheme Credits
(Hrs/Week)
RJSPGITDSAI1L3 PG Lab – V PC - 2 2
Machine Learning - II
Practical List:

1. Cross-validation, model evaluation and selection

2. Bootstrap
3. Dimensionality reduction using feature extraction.
4. Dimensionality reduction using feature selection.
5. Polynomial Regression
6. Tree classifier and regressor
7. Random forest classifier and regressor
8. Training linear classifier
9. Creating predicated probabilities
10. Identifying support vectors

Course Code Course Name Group Teaching Scheme Credits

(Hrs/Week)
RJSPGITDSAI1L3 PG Lab – VI PC - 2 2
Big Data Analytics

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Practical List:

1. Feature extraction, summarization and data modelling for big data sets.
2. Mining data streams and estimating moments.
3. Implementation of Classification Algorithms Using Big Data.
4. Implementation of Clustering Algorithms Using Big Data.
5. Installation of Spark and Scala.
6. Creating spark application.
7. Using spark libraries.
8. Web and Social Analytics.
9. Finance and Risk Analytics.
10. Supply Chain and Logistic Analysis.

Professional Electives
Course Code Course Name Group Teaching Scheme Credits
(Hrs/Week)
Lectures Practical
RJSPGITDSAI3P3A Data Science for Cyber Security PE 3 - 3

Course Objectives
1. To learn different Cyber Threats, Various techniques of collecting Cyber Threat Intelligence
Requirements and Information.
2. To learn analysis and disseminating Cyber Threat Intelligence.
3. To identify and document Risks, Threats and vulnerabilities for organization’s productions for the
infrastructure and assets.

Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to
1. Identify and understand various cyber threats, accurately access threats, risks, and
vulnerabilities, to minimize the potential for incidents.
2. Identify Vulnerabilities and document it for organization’s Productions for the infrastructure
and assets.

Unit Topics Lectures

Unit I Defining Cyber Threat Intelligence 10
The Need for Cyber Threat Intelligence: The menace of targeted attacks, the
monitor and respond strategy, Why the strategy is failing, Cyber Threat
Intelligence Defined, Key Characteristics: Adversary based, Risk focused, Process
oriented, Tailored for diverse consumers, The Benefits of Cyber Threat
Intelligence.

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Unit II Developing Cyber Threat Intelligence Requirements 10

Assets That Must Be Prioritized: Personal information, Intellectual property,
Confidential business information, Credentials and IT systems information,
Operational systems. Adversaries: Cybercriminals, Competitors and cyber
espionage agents, Hacktivists. Intelligence Consumers: Tactical users,
Operational users, Strategic users.
Unit III Collecting Cyber Threat Information 10
Level 1: Threat Indicators, File hashes and reputation data, Technical sources:
honey pots and scanners, Industry sources: malware and reputation feeds. Level
2: Threat Data Feeds, Cyber threat statistics, reports, and surveys, Malware
analysis.
Level 3: Strategic Cyber Threat Intelligence, Monitoring the underground,
Motivation and intentions, Tactics, techniques, and procedures.
Analyzing and Disseminating Cyber Threat Intelligence
Information versus Intelligence, Validation and Prioritization: Risk scores, Tags
for context, Human assessment. Interpretation and Analysis: Reports, Analyst
skills, Intelligence platform, Customization. Dissemination: Automated feeds and
APIs, Searchable knowledge base, Tailored reports.
Unit IV Data Gathering Sampling 10
The RIIOT Method of Data Gathering, Administrative Data Gathering, Technical
Data Gathering., Physical Data gathering.
Risk Analysis
Determining Risk, Creating Risk Statements, Team Review of Security Risk
Statements, Security Risk,Mitigation, Security Risk Assessment Reporting
Security Risk Assessment Approaches.
Quantitative vs. Qualitative Analysis, Qualitative Analysis, Tools, Security Risk
Assessment Methods, Relevant Standards and Regulations.
References
1. “Cyber Threat Intelligence”, Definitive Guide TM, By Jon Friedman. Mark Bouchard, CISSP.
Foreword by John P. Watters, 2015.
2. “Intelligence, Driven Incident Response: Outwitting the Adversary”, Scott J. Roberts, Rebekah
Brown, , O’Reilly Media, 2017.
3. “How to Define and Build an Effective Cyber Threat Intelligence Capability Elsevier Science &
Technology”, Henry Dalziel, 2014.
4. “Dark Web Cyber Threat Intelligence Mining”, Cambridge University Press, John Robertson,
Ahmad Diab, Ericsson Marin, Eric Nunes, Vivin Paliath, Jana Shakarian, Paulo Shakarian, 2017.
5. “The Cyber Threat”, Bob Gourley, CreateSpace Independent Pub, 2014.

Course Code Course Name Group Teaching Credits

Scheme
(Hrs/Week)
Lectures Practical
RJSPGITDSAI3P3B Natural Language Processing PE 3 - 3

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Course Objectives
1. To learn structure of sentence.
2. To learn Morphological analysis, Lexical analysis, Syntactic and Semantic analysis.
3. To learn feature engineering concepts and rule-based systems for NLP.
4. Using Machine learning and deep learning for NLP.

Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to
1. Analyse corpus and corpora of NL.
2. Learn the language modeling, formal grammars, statistical parsing, machine translation, and
dialog processing.
3. Understanding statistical sequence labeling, information extraction, question answering
and summarization, advanced topics in speech recognition, speech synthesis.

Unit Topics Lectures

Unit I Introduction 10
Understanding natural language processing, Understanding basic
applications, Advantages of togetherness, NLP and Python, Environment
setup for NLTK.
Practical Understanding of a Corpus and Dataset
What is a corpus? Why do we need a corpus? Understanding corpus analysis,
understanding types of data attributes, exploring different file
formats for corpora, Resources for accessing free corpora, Preparing a
dataset for NLP applications, Web scraping.
Unit II Understanding the Structure of a Sentences 10
Understanding components of NLP, Natural language understanding,
Defining context-free grammar, Morphological analysis, Syntactic analysis,
Semantic analysis, Handling ambiguity, Discourse integration, Pragmatic
analysis.
Pre-processing
Handling corpus-raw text, Handling corpus-raw sentences, Basic
preprocessing, Practical and customized pre-processing.
Unit III Feature Engineering and NLP Algorithms 10
Understanding feature engineering, Basic feature of NLP, Basic statistical
features for NLP, Advantages of features engineering, Challenges of
features engineering.
Advanced Feature Engineering and NLP Algorithms
Recall word embedding, Understanding the basics of word2vec, Converting
the word2vec model from black box to white box, Understanding the
components of the word2vec model, Understanding the logic of the
word2vec model, Understanding algorithmic techniques and the
mathematics behind the word2vec model.

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Unit IV Rule-Based System for NLP 10

Understanding of the rule-based system, Purpose of having the rule-based
system, Architecture of the RB system, Understanding the RB system
development life cycle, Applications, Developing NLP applications using the
RB system, Comparing the rule, based approach with other approaches,
Advantages of the rule, based system, Disadvantages of the rule-based
system
Machine Learning and Deep Learning for NLP Problems
Understanding the basics of machine learning, Development steps for NLP
applications, Comparing NLU and NLG
References
1. “Python Natural Language Processing”, Jalaj Thanaki, Packt.
2. “Natural Language Processing with Python: Analyzing Text with the Natural Launguage
Toolkit”, By Steven Bird, Ewan Klein, and Edward Loper, NLTK.
3. “Speech and Language Processing”, Daniel Jurafskey and James H. Martin, Prentice Hall,
2009.
4. “Foundation of Statistical Natural Language Processing”, Christopher D. Manning and
Hinrich Schutze, MIT Press, 1999.
5. “Foundations of Computational Linguistics”, Ronald Hausser, Springer,Verleg, 1999.
6. “Natural Language Understanding”, James Allen, Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Co. 1995.
7. “Corpus – Based Methods in Language and Speech Processing”, Steve Young and Gerrit
Bloothooft, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997.

Evaluation Scheme Internal Evaluation (40 Marks)

The internal assessment marks shall be awarded as follows:
1. 30 marks (Any one of the following):
a. Written Test or
b. SWAYAM (Advanced Course) of minimum 20 hours and certification exam
completed or
c. NPTEL (Advanced Course) of minimum 20 hours and certification exam completed
or
d. Valid International Certifications (Prometric, Pearson, Certiport, Coursera, Udemy
and the like)
e. One certification mark shall be awarded one course only. For four courses, the
students will have to complete four certifications.
2. 10 Marks
The marks given out of 40 for publishing the research paper should be divided into
four course and should awarded out of 10 in each of the four courses.

I. Suggested format of Question paper of 30 marks for the written test.

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Q. 1. Attempt any two of the following: [16 M]

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Q. 2. Attempt any two of the following: [14 M]

a)
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II. 10 marks from every course coming to a total of 40 marks, shall be awarded on
publishing of research paper in UGC approved Journal with plagiarism less than
10%. The marks can be awarded as per the impact factor of the journal, quality of the
paper, importance of the contents published, social value.

External Examination: (60 marks)

All Questions are compulsory.

Q. 1. Attempt any three of the following: [15 M]

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Q. 2. Attempt any three of the following: [15 M]

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Q. 3. Attempt any three of the following: [15 M]

a)
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Q. 4. Attempt any three of the following: [15 M]

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Practical Evaluation (50 marks)

A copy of e-journal is essential to appear for the practical examination.

a) Practical Question 1. 20
b) Practical Question 2. 15
c) Journal 10
d) Viva 05

OR

a) Practical Question 1. 35
b) Journal 10
c) Viva 05

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