DATA SCIENCE SYLLABUS
Essential Mathematics for data science:
Introduction
Introduction to data science and its application. what is data,types of Data, Legacy of Data mining,
Data science life cycle, steps involved in data science,Roles in Data Science,Use cases
Module 1:Probability Theory:
what is probability, sample space,Event,& Examples,Probability Measures,Probability Laws and
Rules: Addition Rule,Product Rule,Types for Probability:Marginal,conditional,joint probability,
conditional Probability and Bayes’ Theorem,Joint and Union Conditional , Introduction to
Probability Distributions for Data Science
Module 2:statistics for Data Science:
Introduction,Probability Versus Statistics, key terms,Populations, Samples, and Bias,Descriptive
statistics,Inferential Statistics, outliers & percentiles,Quartiles,Deviations,Mean Absolute
Deviation,Standard Deviation Variance,The T-Distribution,Binomial Distribution,Chi-Square
Distribution,Poisson and Related Distributions,Statistical Experiments and Significance
Testing:ANOVA,Chi-Square Test,
Module 3: Linear Algebra Foundation:
Matrices
Types of Matrices, Matrix Operations,Systems of Linear Equations & Inverse Matrices,Solving
Systems of Linear Equations
Vectors:
key concepts and Vector Operations,Vector Spaces,Span and Linear Dependence,Basis and Rank,
Linear Mappings:Linear Transformations:Basis Vectors,Matrix Vector Multiplication
Analytical Geometry:Norms,Inner Products,Lengths and Distances,Angles and Orthogonality and
other concepts
Module 4: Matrix Decomposition
Determinant and Trace,Eigen values and Eigenvectors,Cholesky
Decomposition,Eigendecomposition, Eigendecomposition of symmetric matrices
Eigendecomposition and Diagonalization,Singular Value Decomposition
LU decomposition, QR decomposition,
Advanced Mathematics
Module 5
Calculus
Graphs of functions,Limits and Derivatives & partial Derivatives,integrals, Advanced Integration
and Application,multivariate calculus->A gentle introduction, series & Taylor series, vector
calculus:vectors A revisit ,The Dot Product,Normal Equations of Planes,gradient vector,
maximum and minimum and chain rule,Lagrange Multipliers
Python Fundamentals
Module 1:Hello python:
what is Programming Language?,compiler, interpreter,Debuggers,IDE and Coding Environments
python introduction, variables ,keywords,Identifiers, data types in python,type conversion in
python,I/O and imports in python,Name spaces,flow controls in python
Module 2:functional Programming:
python functions, Buit-in functions,arguments and return types in python,Anonymous functions,
Global, local and non-local function,Global keyword in python,Introduction packages and modules
Data types in python:String,List,tuple,Dictionary,set,Frozen Set
Module 4: OOP Programming:
Class,Objects,Polymorphism,Encapsulation,Inheritance ,multiple inheritance,operator overloading
Data Abstraction
Module 4: Data structures in python
Byte array,Counters,Ordered-dict,Default-dict,Chain Map,Named Tuple,User Dict,User List,User-
string,Stack,Queue,Priority Queue,Linked List,
Deque,Heap queue,Binary Tree,Graph
Module 5:Advanced concepts:
file handling in python:opening file,writing to file, Errors and Exceptions,User Defined Exceptions,
Regular Expressions,Iterators,Generators,closures,Properties,Decorators in python,
Date and time functions,Map filter and Reduce functions in python,list comprehensions,Virtual
Environments and package installation using pip,
AI - ML
SUB TOPICS -01 MACHINE LEARNING(ML)
Module 1 :ML-Basics
Understanding data,types of data. Introduction to ML, Numpy & pandas with examples. Data
Science life cycle,types of Machine Learning:Supervised,Unsupervised,semi-
supervised,Reinforcement learning & more.(A basic introduction ).
Module 2: ML- Data Visualization & Algorithms:
Data visualization in python: introduction to matplotlib, seaborn & plotly,
Regression: types of regression,Linear Regression,Logistic Regression,Lasso Regression with
various examples
Gradient Descent (batch/stochastic/mini-batch) in Regression,
classification:binary classification , multi-class classification, F1-score,Accuracy,Roc
curve,decision tree classifier
Introduction to Naive Bayes:Bayes' Theorem,Text classification example
Finding neighbors: introduction to KNN: modeling and analysis on both regression and
classification
K-Means Algorithm in Unsupervised Learning and implementation.
Support vector machine learning:introduction ,types of svm, image classification using svm
Module 3:ML -Advanced
PCA: Principal Component Analysis-> finding principal components and modeling
Ensemble Learning:
------------------
Bagging,
Boosting: Gradient Boosting,ADA-BOOST,XGBOOST Algorithm->A detailed Analysis
stacking
time-series forecasting:
-------------------------
What is Time Series?, Trend, Seasonality, cyclical and random, Auto-regressive Model (AR),
Moving Average Model (MA), Stationarity of Time Series,ARIMA Model
SUB TOPICS -02 DEEP LEARNING (DL)
Module 3: DL- Basics
Introduction to neural networks,activation function, ,activation function, first neural
network,,introduction to feed Forward technique
and back-propagation, Gradient Descent Algorithm, Linear Regression/Logistic Regression Using
Neural network,
Module 4: DL- Dig deeper
Deep learning models:Introduction to CNN and RNN, working with TensorFlow and keras,cost and
loss functions in deep learning,
cost and loss functions in deep learning, working with MNIST Data,
optimzers in DNN -> A gentle introduction to Stochastic Gradient Descent Algorithm.
Generative Advertial Networks, A introduction to Generative AI(based on google certification
course)
SUB TOPICS -03 Artificial Intelligence (AI)
module 5: Computer Vision
---------------------------
Open-CV,opencv introduction and various image operation,computer vision concepts using open-
CV, introduction CNN with modeling , face detection using open-CV, emotion detection using
Neural network, a visit to YOLO model
Module 6: A Introduction to NLP:
Introduction to NLP,Text Preprocessing,Noise Removal,Lexicon Normalization, Object
Standardization,Text to Features (Feature Engineering on text data),Syntactical Parsing, Entity
Parsing,Statistical features,Word Embeddings,Important tasks of NLP,Text Classification and Text
Matching,Important NLP libraries
project : sentiment Analysis over twitter
Generative AI (Gen-AI)
Module 1:Advanced Gen-AI Concepts
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs): Theory and Applications
• Encoders and AutoEncoders: Dimensionality Reduction and Feature Learning
• Variational AutoEncoders (VAE): Introduction to Latent Variables
• Attention Mechanisms: Introduction to Transformers, Multi-head Attention
• Transformers: Foundation for Large Language Models (LLMs)
• LLM Theory: Training Large Language Models, Pre-training, Fine-tuning
Module 2:Advanced Transformer Models
• BERT, GPT Models: Overview and Working Mechanisms
• RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation): Combining Retrieval and Generation for Task-
specific Applications
• RIG (Retrieval-Integrated Generation): Integrating Retrieval with Real-Time Generation
• Applications of RAG in Conversational AI, Chatbots, and Information Retrieval
