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Data ScienceNovember 2017

The Byte Academy Data Science Syllabus covers topics in Python, computer science, statistics, machine learning and data science over 3 phases. Phase 1 focuses on Python fundamentals, databases, and an intro to data science concepts. Phase 2 covers core machine learning algorithms like regression, classification and deep learning. Phase 3 introduces big data and cloud computing platforms, culminating in a final project.

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Data ScienceNovember 2017

The Byte Academy Data Science Syllabus covers topics in Python, computer science, statistics, machine learning and data science over 3 phases. Phase 1 focuses on Python fundamentals, databases, and an intro to data science concepts. Phase 2 covers core machine learning algorithms like regression, classification and deep learning. Phase 3 introduces big data and cloud computing platforms, culminating in a final project.

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Byte Academy Data Science Syllabus

Common topics throughout course


• POSIX Compatible Operations
• Git workflow
• Unix/Linux usage
• Debugging
• Pandas
• PEP 8 Compliance
• Group weekend projects

Phase 0: Pre Course Work


• Environment setup (Setup Ubuntu, GitHub & Python Development Environment)
• Fundamentals of Python & Javascript programming language
• Fundamentals of Writing Software and System Operations (Iteration, Control
Flow, Editing and Executing Files)
• Foundations of Mathematics and Statistics for Data Science

Phase 1-1: Python Basics


• Learning Bash commands and Bash Development Environment
• Programming Fundamentals Review: Iteration, Control flow, Python Data
Structures
• Python Modular Programming: Python Standard Library (standard libraries
typically include definitions for commonly used algorithms, data structures,
and mechanisms for input and output.).
• Python Functional Programming: Anonymous Functions, Decorator
Functions, Iterators, Generators, Functional Objects
• Python Object Oriented Programming: Classes, Objects, Inheritance
• Best Practices: Keeping it simple, DRY code, naming conventions,
comments and documentation
• Python mini project: Well- documented Python module; (those are one to
two-hour mini project which could be finished in class so that the students
can discuss with peers and get feedback from the instructor.)

Phase 1-2: Computer Science, Beyond the basics


• Introduction to Computer Science
• Big O Notation, Data Structures, Sorts and Searches
• MVC - Model Views Controller
• Introduction to Database Management System and SQL Introduction
• (Weekend) - Building a terminal application utilizing the MVC Design pattern and
a SQL Database for persistent data
Phase 1-3: Databases
• SQL Relationships, Joins
• CRUD operations and Introduction to APIs
• DOM (Document Object Model)
• Data Formats – XML, JSON, CSV
• Object Relational Mapping, ETL Concepts
• No-SQL (MongoDB)
• (Weekend) - Building a terminal application with the MVC Design pattern, persisting
data in SQL, and utilizing APIs to grab data in JSON format

Phase 1-4: Web Scraping and Phase 1 Assessment

• Introduction to Web Scraping using Beautiful Soup, Requests and Selenium


• Phase 1 Assessment

Phase 2: Core Data Science Concepts

Phase 2-1: Hypothesis Testing and Linear Regression(s)

• Probability Distributions
• Hypothesis testing (test of statistical significance)
• Ordinary Least Squares
• BLUE Assumptions
• Evaluating performance
• Python Libraries – statsmodels, linalg

Phase 2-2: More Regression(s), Regularizations, Optimization

• Logistic Regression
• Minimizing Error
• Ridge and Lasso Regressions
• Gradient Descent
• Python Libraries – Scikit-learn

Phase 2-3: Classification methods

• Naive Bayes
• KNN
• LDA
• Support Vector Machines
• Cross-validation techniques for tuning
Phase 2-4: Ensemble methods

● Decision Trees
● Bagging and boosting
● Perceptron
● Supervised Neural Networks

Phase 2-5: Unsupervised and Deep Learning

● K-means Clustering
● Dimensionality Reduction
● Auto encoding, Convolution Neural Networks
● Recurrent Neural Networks
● LTSM

Phase: 2-6: Natural Language Processing

● Preparing textual data using Regular Expressions


● Entity Extraction, Lemmatization
● Textual Classifiers (Naive Bayes, SVM)
● Sentiment Analysis

Phase 3: Big Data and Final Projects

● Foundations
o Monolithic & Micro Service Architecture
o Cluster & Cloud Computing principles
● Big Data
o Map Reduce
o Hadoop
o Spark
● Cloud Computing Platforms:
o Digital Ocean, AWS
o Google Cloud
o Azure
● Final Project Demo

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