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Department of COMPUTER SCIENCE

Syllabus for
Master of Science (Data Science)
Academic Year  (2021)
 
1 Semester - 2021 - Batch
Hours
Course
Course Type Per Credits Marks
Code
Week
MATHEMATICAL
Core
MDS131 FOUNDATION FOR DATA 4 4 100
Courses
SCIENCE - I
PROBABILITY AND Core
MDS132 4 4 100
DISTRIBUTION THEORY Courses
PRINCIPLES OF DATA Core
MDS133 4 4 100
SCIENCE Courses
RESEARCH Core
MDS134 2 2 50
METHODOLOGY Courses
INTRODUCTION TO Generic
MDS161A 2 2 50
STATISTICS Elective
INTRODUCTION TO
Generic
MDS161B COMPUTERS AND 2 2 50
Elective
PROGRAMMING
Generic
MDS161C LINUX ADMINISTRATION 2 2 50
Elective
DATA BASE Core
MDS171 6 5 150
TECHNOLOGIES Courses
Core
MDS172 INFERENTIAL STATISTICS 6 5 150
Courses
PROGRAMMING FOR DATA Core
MDS173 6 4 100
SCIENCE IN PYTHON Courses
2 Semester - 2021 - Batch
Hours
Course
Course Type Per Credits Marks
Code
Week
MATHEMATICAL
MDS231 FOUNDATION FOR DATA - 4 4 100
SCIENCE - II
MDS232 REGRESSION ANALYSIS - 4 4 100
MDS241A MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS - 4 4 100
MDS241B STOCHASTIC PROCESS - 4 4 100

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MDS241C CATEGORICAL DATA - 4 4 100

ANALYSIS
MDS271 MACHINE LEARNING - 6 5 150
MDS272A HADOOP - 6 5 150
IMAGE AND VIDEO
MDS272B - 6 5 150
ANALYTICS
MDS272C INTERNET OF THINGS - 6 5 150
PROGRAMMING FOR DATA
MDS273 - 6 4 100
SCIENCE IN R
3 Semester - 2020 - Batch
Hours
Course
Course Type Per Credits Marks
Code
Week
NEURAL NETWORKS AND
MDS331 - 4 4 100
DEEP LEARNING
TIME SERIES ANALYSIS
MDS341A AND FORECASTING - 4 4 100
TECHNIQUES
MDS341B BAYESIAN INFERENCE - 4 4 100
MDS341C ECONOMETRICS - 4 4 100
MDS341D BIO-STATISTICS - 4 4 100
MDS371 CLOUD ANALYTICS - 6 5 150
NATURAL LANGUAGE
MDS372A - 6 5 150
PROCESSING
MDS372B WEB ANALYTICS - 6 5 150
MDS372C BIO INFORMATICS - 6 5 150
EVOLUTIONARY
MDS372D - 6 5 150
ALGORITHMS
OPTIMIZATION
MDS372E - 6 5 150
TECHNIQUE
MDS381 SPECIALIZATION PROJECT - 4 2 100
MDS382 SEMINAR - 2 1 50
4 Semester - 2020 - Batch
Hours
Course
Course Type Per Credits Marks
Code
Week
MDS481 INDUSTRY PROJECT - 2 12 300
      

        

    

Department Overview:
Department of Computer Science of CHRIST (Deemed to be
University) strives to shape outstanding computer professionals with
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ethical and human values to reshape nation?s destiny. The training

imparted aims to prepare young minds for the challenging
opportunities in the IT industry with a global awareness rooted in
the Indian soil, nourished and supported by experts in the field.

Mission Statement:
Vision The Department of Computer Science endeavours to imbibe
the vision of the University "Excellence and Service". The
department is committed to this philosophy which pervades every
aspect and functioning of the department.

Mission: To develop IT professionals with ethical and human

values.  To accomplish our mission, the department encourages
students to apply their acquired knowledge and skills towards
professional achievements in their career. The department also
moulds the

Introduction to Program:
Data Science is popular in all academia, business sectors, and
research and development to make effective decision in day to day
activities. MSc in Data Science is a two year programme with four
semesters. This programme aims to provide opportunity to all
candidates to master the skill sets specific to data science with
research bent. The curriculum supports the students to obtain
adequate knowledge in theory of data science with hands on
experience in relevant domains and tools. Candidate gains exposure
to research models and industry standard applications in data science
through guest lectures, seminars, projects, internships, etc.

Program Objective:
Programme Objective

To acquire in-depth understanding of the theoretical concepts in

statistics, data analysis, data mining, machine learning and other
advanced data science techniques.

To gain practical experience in programming tools for data sciences,

database systems, machine learning and big data tools.

To strengthen the analytical and problem solving skill through

developing real time applications.

To empower students with tools and techniques for handling,

managing, analyzing and interpreting data.

To imbibe quality research and develop solutions to the social

issues.
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Programme Outcome

PO1 Engage in continuous reflective learning in the context of

technology and scientific advancement.

PO2 Identify the need and scope of the Interdisciplinary research.

PO3 Enhance research culture and uphold the scientific integrity and
objectivity 

PO4 Understand the professional, ethical and social responsibilities

PO5 Understand the importance and the judicious use of technology

for the sustainability of the environment

PO6 Enhance disciplinary competency, employability and leadership

skills

Programme Specific Outcomes

PSO1: Abstract thinking: Ability to understand the abstract concepts

that lead to various data science theories in Mathematics, Statistics
and Computer science.

PSO2: Problem Analysis and Design Ability to identify ana

Assesment Pattern
CIA - 50%

ESE - 50%

Examination And Assesments

CIA - 50%

ESE - 50%

Department Overview:

The Department of Data Science at CHRIST

(Deemed to be University), Pune Lavasa
Campus was established to shape students into
outstanding Data Scientists and Analytics 
professionals with ethical and human values.
The department offers various  undergraduate
and postgraduate programmes viz., Bachelor of

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Science in Data Science,  Master of Science in

Data Science, Bachelor of Science in Economics
& Analytics, and  Doctor of Philosophy in the
area of Computer Science and Engineering. The
department  has rich expertise in faculty
resources who are trained in various fields like
Data Science,  Data Security, Data Analytics,
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning,
Networking, Data  Mining, Big Data, Text Mining,
Knowledge Representation, Soft Computing, and
Cloud  Computing. The department has a wide
variety of labs set up, namely the Machine 
Learning Lab, Data Analytics Lab, Open Source
Lab, etc., which are exclusively for  students'
hands-on training for their lab-oriented courses
and research. 

Mission Statement:

VISION 

  
Introduction to Program:
 

Data Science is popular in all academia, business sectors, and research and
development to make effective decision in day to day activities. MSc in Data
Science is a two year programme with four semesters. This programme aims to
provide opportunity to all candidates to master the skill sets specific to data science
with research bent. The curriculum supports the students to obtain adequate
knowledge in theory of data science with hands on experience in relevant domains
and tools. Candidate gains exposure to research models and industry standard
applications in data science through guest lectures, seminars, projects, internships,
etc. 

Program Objective:
 
Programme Objective ? To acquire in-depth understanding of the theoretical
concepts in statistics, data analysis, data mining, machine learning and other
advanced data science techniques. ? To gain practical experience in programming
tools for data sciences, database systems, machine learning and big data tools. ? To
strengthen the analytical and problem solving skill through developing real time
applications. ? To empower students with tools and techniques for handling,
managing, analyzing and interpreting data. ? To imbibe quality research and develop
solutions to the social issues. Programme Specific Outcomes PSO1: Abstract

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thinking: Ability to understand the abstract concepts that lead to various data
science theories in Mathematics, Statistics and Computer science. PSO2: Problem
Analysis and Design Ability to identify analyze and design solutions for data
science problems using fundamental principles of mathematics, Statistics,
computing sciences, and relevant domain disciplines. PSO3: Modern software tool
usage: Acquire the skills in handling data science programming tools towards
problem solving and solution analysis for domain specific pr

Assesment Pattern
50-50

Examination And Assesments

CIA & ESE
MDS131 - MATHEMATICAL FOUNDATION FOR
DATA SCIENCE - I (2021 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for No of Lecture
Semester:60 Hours/Week:4
Max Marks:100 Credits:4
Course Objectives/Course
 
Description
Linear Algebra plays a fundamental role in the theory of Data
Science. This course aims at introducing the basic notions of vector
spaces, Linear Algebra and the use of Linear Algebra in applications
to Data Science.
Learning Outcome
CO1: Understand the properties of Vector spaces

CO2: Use the properties of Linear Maps in solving problems on

Linear Algebra

CO3: Demonstrate proficiency on the topics Eigenvalues,

Eigenvectors and Inner Product Spaces

CO4: Apply mathematics for some applications in Data Science

Unit-1 Teaching Hours:12
INTRODUCTION TO VECTOR SPACES  
Vector Spaces: Rn and Cn, lists, Fn and digression on Fields,
Definition of Vector spaces, Subspaces, sums of Subspaces, Direct
Sums, Span and Linear Independence, bases, dimension.
Unit-2 Teaching Hours:12
LINEAR MAPS  

DefinitionofLinearMaps-AlgebraicOperationson  L(V,W)  -
Null spaces and Injectivity-RangeandSurjectivity-
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FundamentalTheoremsofLinearMaps-Representing
aLinearMapbyaMatrix-InvertibleLinearMaps-
IsomorphicVectorspaces-LinearMap as Matrix
Multiplication - Operators - Products of Vector Spaces -
Product of Direct Sum - Quotients of Vector spaces.
Unit-3 Teaching Hours:12
EIGENVALUES, EIGENVECTORS, AND
 
INNER PRODUCT SPACES
Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors - Eigenvectors and Upper
Triangular matrices - Eigenspaces and Diagonal Matrices -
Inner Products and Norms - Linear functionals on Inner
Product spaces.
Unit-4 Teaching Hours:12
BASIC MATRIX METHODS FOR
 
APPLICATIONS
  Matrix Norms – Least square problem - Singular value
decomposition- Householder  Transformation and QR
decomposition- Non Negative Matrix Factorization –
 bidiagonalization.

 
Unit-5 Teaching Hours:12
MATHEMATICS APPLIED TO DATA
 
SCIENCE
Handwritten digits recognition using simple algorithm -
Classification of handwritten digits  using SVD bases and Tangent
distance - Text Mining using Latent semantic index, Clustering,
Non-negative Matrix Factorization and LGK bidiagonalization.
Text Books And Reference Books:

1. S. Axler, Linear algebra done right, Springer, 2017.

2. Eldén Lars, Matrix methods in data mining and pattern

recognition, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2007.
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading

1. E. Davis, Linear algebra and probability for computer science

applications, CRC Press, 2012.

2. J. V. Kepner and J. R. Gilbert, Graph algorithms in the language

of linear algebra, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics,
2011.

3. D. A. Simovici, Linear algebra tools for data mining, World

Scientific Publishing, 2012.

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4. P. N. Klein, Coding the matrix: linear algebra through applications

to computer science, Newtonian Press, 2015.
Evaluation Pattern

CIA - 50%

ESE - 50%
MDS131L - MATHEMATICAL FOUNDATION
FOR DATA SCIENCE I (2021 Batch)
No of Lecture
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:60
Hours/Week:4
Max Marks:100 Credits:4
Course Objectives/Course Description  
Linear Algebra plays a fundamental role in the theory of Data Science. This course aims at
introducing the basic notions of vector spaces, Linear Algebra and the use of Linear Algebra
in applications to Data Science
Learning Outcome
 Understand the properties of Vector spaces
 Use the properties of Linear Maps in solving problems on Linear Algebra
 Demonstrate proficiency on the topics Eigenvalues, Eigenvectors and Inner Product
Spaces
 Apply mathematics for some applications in Data Science

Unit-1 Teaching Hours:12

INTRODUCTION TO VECTOR SPACES  
Vector Spaces: Rn  and Cn, lists, Fn  and digression on Fields, Definition of Vector spaces,
Subspaces, sums of Subspaces, Direct Sums, Span and Linear Independence, bases,
dimension
Unit-2 Teaching Hours:12
LINEAR MAPS  
Definition of LinearMaps-AlgebraicOperationson  L(V,W)  - Null spaces and Injectivity-
RangeandSurjectivity-FundamentalTheoremsofLinearMaps-Representing
aLinearMapbyaMatrix-InvertibleLinearMaps-IsomorphicVectorspaces-LinearMap as Matrix
Multiplication - Operators - Products of Vector Spaces - Product of Direct Sum - Quotients
of Vector spaces
Unit-3 Teaching Hours:12
EIGENVALUES, EIGENVECTORS, AND
 
INNER PRODUCT SPACES
Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors - Eigenvectors and Upper Triangular matrices - Eigenspaces
and Diagonal Matrices - Inner Products and Norms - Linear functionals on Inner Product
spaces.
Unit-4 Teaching Hours:12
BASIC MATRIX METHODS FOR
 
APPLICATIONS
Matrix Norms – Least square problem - Singular value decomposition-
Householder Transformation and QR decomposition- Non Negative Matrix Factorization –

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 bidiagonalization.
Unit-5 Teaching Hours:12
MATHEMATICS APPLIED TO DATA
 
SCIENCE
Handwritten digits recognition using simple algorithm - Classification of handwritten
digits  using SVD bases and Tangent distance - Text Mining using Latent semantic index,
Clustering, Non-negative Matrix Factorization and LGK bidiagonalization
Text Books And Reference Books:
1. S. Axler, Linear algebra done right, Springer, 2017.

2. Eldén Lars, Matrix methods in data mining and pattern recognition, Society for Industrial
and Applied Mathematics, 2007.
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
1. E. Davis, Linear algebra and probability for computer science applications, CRC Press,
2012.
2. J. V. Kepner and J. R. Gilbert, Graph algorithms in the language of linear algebra, Society
for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2011.
3. D. A. Simovici, Linear algebra tools for data mining, World Scientific Publishing, 2012.
4. P. N. Klein, Coding the matrix: linear algebra through applications to computer science,
Newtonian Press,2015
Evaluation Pattern

CIA I : 10%

CIA II : 25%

CIA III : 10%

ATTENDANCE : 5%

ESE : 50%
MDS132 - PROBABILITY AND DISTRIBUTION
THEORY (2021 Batch)
No of Lecture
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:60
Hours/Week:4
Max Marks:100 Credits:4
Course Objectives/Course Description  
Probability and probability distributions play an essential role in
modeling data from the real-world phenomenon. This course will
equip students with thorough knowledge in probability and various
probability distributions and model real-life data sets with an
appropriate probability distribution
Learning Outcome
CO1: Describe random event and probability of events

CO2: Identify various discrete and continuous distributions and their

usage.

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CO3: Evaluate condition probabilities and conditional expectations

CO4: Apply Chebychev’s inequality to verify the convergence of

sequence in probability
Unit-1 Teaching Hours:12
DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS AND
 
PROBABILITY
Data – types of variables: numeric vs categorical - measures of
central tendency – measures of dispersion - random experiment -
sample space and random events – probability - probability axioms -
finite sample space with equally likely outcomes - conditional
probability - independent events - Baye’s theorem
Unit-2 Teaching Hours:12
PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS FOR
 
DISCRETE DATA
Random variable – data as observed values of a random variable -
expectation – moments & moment generating function - mean and
variance in terms of moments - discrete sample space and discrete
random variable – Bernoulli experiment and Binary variable:
Bernoulli and binomial distributions – Count data: Poisson
distribution – overdispersion in count data: negative binomial
distribution – dependent Bernoulli  trails: hypergeometric
distribution.
Unit-3 Teaching Hours:12
PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS FOR
 
CONTINUOUS DATA
Continuous sample space - Interval data - continuous random
variable – uniform distribution - normal distribution (Gaussian
distribution) – modeling lifetime data: exponential distribution,
gamma distribution, Weibull distribution.
Unit-4 Teaching Hours:12
JOINTLY DISTRIBUTED RANDOM
 
VARIABLES
Joint distribution of vector random variables – joint moments –
covariance – correlation -  the correlation - independent random
variables - conditional distribution – conditional  expectation -
sampling distributions: chi-square, t, F (central).
Unit-5 Teaching Hours:12
LIMIT THEOREMS  
Chebychev’s inequality - weak law of large n u mbers (iid):
examples - strong law of large  numbers (statement only) - central
limit theorems (iid case): examples.
Text Books And Reference Books:
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1. Ross, Sheldon. A first course in probability. 10th Edition. Pearson,

2019.

2. An Introduction to Probability and Statistics, V.K Rohatgi and

Saleh, 3rd Edition, 2015
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading

1. Introduction to the theory of statistics, A.M Mood, F.A Graybill

and D.C Boes, Tata McGraw-Hill, 3rd Edition (Reprint), 2017.

2. Ross, Sheldon M. Introduction to probability models. 12th

Edition, Academic Press, 2019. 
Evaluation Pattern

CIA: 50%

ESE: 50%
MDS132L - PROBABILITY AND DISTRIBUTION
THEORY (2021 Batch)
No of Lecture
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:60
Hours/Week:4
Max Marks:100 Credits:4
Course Objectives/Course Description  
Course Objectives
  To enable the students to understand the properties and applications of
various probability functions.
Learning Outcome
CO1: Demonstrate the random variables and its functions

CO2: Infer the expectations for random variable functions and generating functions.

CO3: Demonstrate various discrete and continuous distributions and their

usage
Unit-1 Teaching Hours:12
ALGEBRA OF PROBABILITY  
Algebra of sets - fields and sigma - fields, Inverse function -Measurable
function – Probability measure on a sigma field – simple properties -
Probability space - Random variables and Random vectors – Induced
Probability space – Distribution functions –Decomposition of distribution
functions.
Unit-2 Teaching Hours:12
EXPECTATION AND MOMENTS OF
 
RANDOM VARIABLES
Definitions and simple properties - Moment inequalities – Holder, Jenson
Inequalities – Characteristic function – definition and properties – Inversion
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formula. Convergence of a sequence of random variables - convergence in

distribution - convergence in probability almost sure convergence and
convergence in quadratic mean - Weak and Complete convergence of
distribution functions – Helly - Bray theorem.
Unit-3 Teaching Hours:12
LAW OF LARGE NUMBERS  
Khintchin's weak law of large numbers, Kolmogorov strong law of large
numbers (statement only) – Central Limit Theorem – Lindeberg – Levy
theorem, Linderberg – Feller theorem (statement only), Liapounov theorem –
Relation between Liapounov and Linderberg –Feller forms – Radon
Nikodym theorem and derivative (without proof) – Conditional expectation –
definition and simple properties.
Unit-4 Teaching Hours:12
DISTRIBUTION THEORY  
Distribution of functions of random variables – Laplace, Cauchy, Inverse
Gaussian, Lognormal, Logarithmic series and Power series distributions -
Multinomial distribution - Bivariate Binomial – Bivariate Poisson – Bivariate
Normal - Bivariate Exponential of Marshall and Olkin - Compound,
truncated and mixture of distributions, Concept of convolution - Multivariate
normal distribution (Definition and Concept only) - Sampling distributions:
Non-central chi-square, t and F distributions and their properties.
Unit-5 Teaching Hours:12
ORDER STATISTICS  
Order statistics, their distributions and properties - Joint and marginal
distributions of order statistics - Distribution of range and mid range -
Extreme values and their asymptotic distributions (concepts only) - Empirical
distribution function and its properties – Kolmogorov - Smirnov distributions
– Life time distributions -Exponential and Weibull distributions - Mills ratio
– Distributions classified by hazard rate.

Text Books And Reference Books:

1.  B.R Bhat,  Modern Probability Theory,  New Age International, 4th
Edition, 2014.

2. V.K Rohatgi and Saleh, An Introduction to Probability and Statistics, 3rd

Edition, 2015.
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
1.  A.M Mood, F.A Graybill and D.C Boes,  Introduction to the theory of
statistics, Tata McGraw-Hill, 3rd Edition (Reprint), 2017.

2.  H.A David and H.N Nagaraja,  Order Statistics, John Wiley & Sons, 3rd
Edition, 2003.
Evaluation Pattern

CIA - 50%

ESE - 50%
MDS133 - PRINCIPLES OF DATA SCIENCE (2021
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MDS133 - PRINCIPLES OF DATA SCIENCE (2021
Batch)

No of Lecture
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:60
Hours/Week:4
Max Marks:100 Credits:4
Course Objectives/Course Description  
To provide strong foundation for data science and application area
related to information technology and understand the underlying
core concepts and emerging technologies in data science
Learning Outcome
 CO1:Explore the fundamental concepts of data science

CO2:Understand data analysis techniques for applications handling

large data

CO3:Understand various machine learning algorithms used in data

science process

CO4:Visualize and present the inference using various tools

CO5:Learn to think through the ethics surrounding privacy, data

sharing and algorithmic decision-making

 
Unit-1 Teaching Hours:10
INTRODUCTION TO DATA
 
SCIENCE
Definition – Big Data and Data Science Hype – Why data science –
Getting Past the Hype – The Current Landscape – Who is Data
Scientist? - Data Science Process Overview – Defining goals –
Retrieving data – Data preparation – Data exploration – Data
modeling – Presentation.
Unit-2 Teaching Hours:12
BIG DATA  
Problems when handling large data – General techniques for
handling large data – Case study  – Steps in big data – Distributing
data storage and processing with Frameworks – Case study.
Unit-3 Teaching Hours:12
MACHINE LEARNING  
Machine learning – Modeling Process – Training model – Validating
model – Predicting new observations –Supervised learning
algorithms – Unsupervised learning algorithms.
Unit-4 Teaching Hours:12

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DEEP LEARNING  
Introduction – Deep Feedforward Networks – Regularization –
Optimization of Deep Learning – Convolutional Networks –
Recurrent and Recursive Nets – Applications of Deep Learning.
Unit-5 Teaching Hours:14
DATA VISUALIZATION  
Introduction to data visualization – Data visualization options –
Filters – MapReduce – Dashboard development tools – Creating an
interactive dashboard with dc.js-summary.
Unit-5 Teaching Hours:14
ETHICS AND RECENT TRENDS  
Data Science Ethics – Doing good data science – Owners of the data
- Valuing different  aspects of privacy - Getting informed consent -
The Five Cs – Diversity – Inclusion – Future Trends.
Text Books And Reference Books:

[1]. Introducing Data Science, Davy Cielen, Arno D. B. Meysman,

Mohamed Ali, Manning Publications Co., 1st edition, 2016

[2]. An Introduction to Statistical Learning: with Applications in R,

Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani,
Springer, 1st edition, 2013

[3]. Deep Learning, Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron

Courville, MIT Press, 1st edition, 2016

[4]. Ethics and Data Science, D J Patil, Hilary Mason, Mike

Loukides, O’ Reilly, 1st edition, 2018
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading

[1]. Data Science from Scratch: First Principles with Python, Joel
Grus, O’Reilly, 1st edition, 2015

[2]. Doing Data Science, Straight Talk from the Frontline, Cathy
O'Neil, Rachel Schutt, O’Reilly, 1st edition, 2013

[3]. Mining of Massive Datasets, Jure Leskovec, Anand Rajaraman,

Jeffrey David Ullman, Cambridge University Press, 2nd edition,
2014
Evaluation Pattern

CIA : 50 %

ESE : 50 %
MDS133L - PRINCIPLES OF DATA SCIENCE (2021
Batch)
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Total Teaching Hours for No of Lecture

Semester:60 Hours/Week:4
Max Marks:100 Credits:4
Course Objectives/Course
 
Description
Course Description:

To provide strong foundation for Data Science and related areas of

application. The course includes with the fundamentals of data science,
different techniques for handing big data and machine learning algorithms for
supervised and unsupervised learning. The importance of handling data in an
ethical manner and the ethical practices to be adopted while dealing the data
is also  a part of the course.

Course Objectives:

To provide strong foundation for data science and application area related to information
  technology and understand the underlying core concepts and emerging technologies in
data science

 
Learning Outcome
 CO1:Explore the fundamental concepts of data science

CO2:Understand data analysis techniques for applications handling large data

CO3:Understand various machine learning algorithms used in data science process

  CO4:Visualize and present the inference using various tools

CO5:Learn to think through the ethics surrounding privacy, data sharing and algorithmic
decision-making

Unit-1 Teaching Hours:10

INTRODUCTION TO DATA
 
SCIENCE
Definition – Big Data and Data Science Hype – Why data science – Getting Past the Hype –
The Current Landscape – Who is Data Scientist? - Data Science Process Overview –
Defining goals – Retrieving data – Data preparation – Data exploration – Data modeling –
Presentation.

Unit-2 Teaching Hours:12

BIG DATA  
Problems when handling large data – General techniques for handling large data – Case
study – Steps in big data – Distributing data storage and processing with Frameworks – Case
study.
Unit-3 Teaching Hours:12
MACHINE LEARNING  
Machine learning – Modeling Process – Training model – Validating model – Predicting

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new observations –Supervised learning algorithms – Unsupervised learning algorithms.

Unit-4 Teaching Hours:12

DEEP LEARNING  
Introduction – Deep Feedforward Networks – Regularization – Optimization of Deep
Learning – Convolutional Networks – Recurrent and Recursive Nets – Applications of
Deep Learning.

Unit-5 Teaching Hours:14

DATA VISUALIZATION  
Introduction to data visualization – Data visualization options – Filters – MapReduce –
Dashboard development tools – Creating an interactive dashboard with dc.js-summary.
ETHICS AND RECENT TRENDS
Data Science Ethics – Doing good data science – Owners of the data - Valuing
different aspects of privacy - Getting informed consent - The Five Cs – Diversity –
Inclusion – Future Trends.

Text Books And Reference Books:

T1. Introducing Data Science, Davy Cielen, Amo D.B.
Meysman, Mohammed Ali,   Manning Publications Co., 1st
             Edition, 2016
T2. An Introduction to Statistical Learning: with Applications in R,
Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastic, Robert Tibshirani, Springer,
1st edition, 2013
T3. Deep learning, Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville,
MIT Press, 1st   Edition, 2016
T4. Ethics and Data Science, D J Patil, Hilary mason, Mike Loukides, O’
Reilly, 1st Edition, 2018
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
R1. Data Science from Scratch: First Principles with Python,
st
  Joel Grus, O’Reilly, 1 Edition, 2015
R2.Doing Data Science, Straight talk from the Frontline,
Cathy O’Neil, Rachel Schutt, O’ Reilly, 1st Edition, 2013
R3. Mining of Massive Datasets, Jure Leskovee, Anand Rajaraman,
Jeffrey David Ullman, Cambridge University Press, 2nd edition, 2014
Evaluation Pattern

CIA I CIA  II CIA III Attendance ESE

10% 25% 10% 5% 50%

MDS134 - RESEARCH METHODOLOGY (2021 Batch)

Total Teaching Hours for No of Lecture
Semester:30 Hours/Week:2
Max Marks:50 Credits:2
Course Objectives/Course
 
Description

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This course is intended to assist students in planning and carrying

out research work.The students are exposed to the basic principles,
procedures and techniques of implementing a research project.

To introduce the research concept and the various research

methodologies is the main  objective. It focuses on finding out the
research gap from the literature and encourages lateral, strategic and
creative thinking. This course also introduces computer
technology  and basic statistics required for research and reporting
the research outcomes scientifically emphasizing on research ethics.

 
Learning Outcome
CO1: Understand the essense of research and the necessity of
defining a research problem.

CO2: Apply research methods and methodology including research

design,data collection, data analysis, and interpretation.

CO3: Create scientific reports according to specified standards.

 
Unit-1 Teaching Hours:8
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY  
Defining research problem:Selecting the problem, Necessity of
defining the problem ,Techniques involved in defining a problem-
Ethics in Research.
Unit-2 Teaching Hours:8
RESEARCH DESIGN  
Principles of experimental design,Working with Literature:
Importance, finding literature, Using your resources, Managing the
literature, Keep track of references,Using the literature, Literature
review,On-line Searching: Database ,SCIFinder, Scopus, Science
Direct ,Searching research articles , Citation Index ,Impact Factor
,H-index.
Unit-3 Teaching Hours:7
RESEARCH DATA  
Measurement of Scaling: Quantitative, Qualitative, Classification of
Measure scales, Data Collection, Data Preparation. 
Unit-4 Teaching Hours:7
REPORT WRITING  
Scientific Writing and Report Writing: Significance, Steps, Layout,
Types, Mechanics and Precautions, Latex: Introduction, Text, Tables,
Figures, Equations, Citations, Referencing, and Templates (IEEE

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style), Paper writing for international journals, Writing scientific

report. 
Text Books And Reference Books:

[1] C. R. Kothari, Research Methodology Methods and Techniques,

3rd. ed. New Delhi: New Age International Publishers, Reprint
2014.

[2] Zina O’Leary, The Essential Guide of Doing Research, New

Delhi: PHI, 2005. 
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading

[1] J. W. Creswell, Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and

Mixed Methods Approaches, 4thed. SAGE Publications, 2014.

[2] Kumar, Research Methodology: A Step by Step Guide for

Beginners, 3rd. ed. Indian: PE, 2010. 
Evaluation Pattern
CIA - 50%
ESE - 50%
MDS134L - RESEARCH METHODOLOGY (2021
Batch)

Total Teaching Hours for No of Lecture

Semester:30 Hours/Week:2
Max Marks:50 Credits:2
Course Objectives/Course
 
Description
This course is intended to assist students in planning and carrying
out research work.The  students are exposed to the basic principles,
procedures and techniques of implementing a research project. 

To introduce the research concept and the various research

methodologies is  the main objective. It focuses on finding out the
research gap from the literature and encourages lateral, strategic and
creative thinking. This course also introduces  computer technology
and basic statistics required for research and reporting the  research
outcomes scientifically emphasizing on research ethics.
Learning Outcome
CO1: Understand the essense of research and the necessity of
defining a research problem.

CO2: Apply research methods and methodology including research

design,data collection, data analysis, and interpretation.

CO3: Create scientific reports according to specified standards.

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Unit-1 Teaching Hours:8

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY  
Defining research problem:Selecting the problem, Necessity of
defining the  problem ,Techniques involved in defining a problem-
Ethics in Research.
Unit-2 Teaching Hours:8
RESEARCH DESIGN  
Principles of experimental design,Working with Literature:
Importance, finding literature,  Using your resources, Managing the
literature, Keep track of references,Using the literature,  Literature
review,On-line Searching: Database ,SCIFinder, Scopus, Science
Direct, Searching research articles , Citation Index ,Impact Factor
,H-index.
Unit-3 Teaching Hours:7
RESEARCH DATA  
Measurement of Scaling: Quantitative, Qualitative, Classification of
Measure scales, Data Collection, Data Preparation.
Unit-4 Teaching Hours:7
REPORT WRITING  
Scientific Writing and Report Writing: Significance, Steps, Layout,
Types, Mechanics and Precautions, Latex: Introduction, Text, Tables,
Figures, Equations, Citations,  Referencing, and Templates (IEEE
style), Paper writing for international journals, Writing  scientific
report.
Text Books And Reference Books:

[1] C. R. Kothari, Research Methodology Methods and Techniques,

3rd. ed. New  Delhi: New Age International Publishers, Reprint
2014.

[2] Zina O’Leary, The Essential Guide of Doing Research, New

Delhi: PHI, 2005.
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading

[1] J. W. Creswell, Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and

Mixed Methods Approaches, 4thed. SAGE Publications, 2014.

[2] Kumar, Research Methodology: A Step by Step Guide for

Beginners, 3rd. ed. Indian: PE, 2010.
Evaluation Pattern

CIA- 50%

ESE- 50%

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MDS161A - INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS

(2021 Batch)

Total Teaching Hours for No of Lecture

Semester:30 Hours/Week:2
Max Marks:50 Credits:2
Course Objectives/Course
 
Description
To enable the students to understand the fundamentals of statistics to
apply descriptive measures and probability for data analysis.
Learning Outcome
CO1: Demonstrate the history of statistics and present the data in
various forms.

CO2: Infer the concept of correlation and regression for relating two
or more related variables.

CO3: Demonstrate the probabilities for various events.

Unit-1 Teaching Hours:8
ORGANIZATION AND
 
PRESENTATION OF DATA
Origin and development of Statistics, Scope, limitation and misuse
of statistics. Types of data: primary, secondary, quantitative and
qualitative data. Types of Measurements: nominal, ordinal, discrete
and continuous data. Presentation of data by tables: construction of
frequency distributions for discrete and continuous data, graphical
representation of a frequency distribution by histogram and
frequency polygon, cumulative frequency distributions
Unit-2 Teaching Hours:8
DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS  
Measures of location or central tendency: Arthimetic mean, Median,
Mode, Geometric mean, Harmonic mean. Partition values: Quartiles,
Deciles and percentiles. Measures of dispersion: Mean deviation,
Quartile deviation, Standard deviation, Coefficient of variation.
Moments: measures of skewness, Kurtosis.
Unit-3 Teaching Hours:7
CORRELATION AND REGRESSION  
Correlation: Scatter plot, Karl Pearson coefficient of correlation,
Spearman's rank correlation coefficient, multiple and partial
correlations (for 3 variates only). Regression: Concept of errors,
Principles of Least Square, Simple linear regression and its
properties.
Unit-4 Teaching Hours:7
 
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BASICS OF PROBABILITY
Random experiment, sample point and sample space, event, algebra
of events. Definition of Probability: classical, empirical and
axiomatic approaches to probability, properties of probability.
Theorems on probability, conditional probability and independent
events, Laws of total probability, Baye’s theorem and its applications
Text Books And Reference Books:

[1]. Rohatgi V.K and Saleh E, An Introduction to Probability and

Statistics, 3rd edition, John Wiley & Sons Inc., New Jersey, 2015.

[2]. Gupta S.C and Kapoor V.K, Fundamentals of Mathematical

Statistics, 11th edition, Sultan Chand & Sons, New Delhi, 2014.
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading

[1]. Mukhopadhyay P, Mathematical Statistics, Books and Allied (P)

Ltd, Kolkata, 2015.

[2]. Walpole R.E, Myers R.H, and Myers S.L, Probability and
Statistics for Engineers and Scientists, Pearson, New Delhi, 2017.

[3]. Montgomery D.C and Runger G.C, Applied Statistics and

Probability for Engineers, Wiley India, New Delhi, 2013.

[4]. Mood A.M, Graybill F.A and Boes D.C, Introduction to the
Theory of Statistics, McGraw Hill, New Delhi, 2008.
Evaluation Pattern

CIA - 50%

ESE - 50%
MDS161B - INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTERS
AND PROGRAMMING (2021 Batch)
No of Lecture
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:30
Hours/Week:2
Max Marks:50 Credits:2
Course Objectives/Course Description  
To enable the students to understand the fundamental concepts of
problem solving and programming structures.
Learning Outcome
CO1: Demonstrate the systematic approach for problem-solving
using computers.

CO2: Apply different programming structures with suitable logic for

computational problems.
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Unit-1 Teaching Hours:10

COMPUTERS AND DIGITAL
 
BASICS
Number Representation – Decimal, Binary, Octal, Hexadecimal and
BCD numbers – Binary Arithmetic – Binary addition – Unsigned
and Signed numbers – one’s and two’s complements of Binary
numbers – Arithmetic operations with signed numbers - Number
system conversions – Boolean Algebra – Logic gates – Design of
Circuits – K - Map
Unit-2 Teaching Hours:5
GENERAL PROBLEM SOLVING
 
CONCEPT
Types of Problems – Problem solving with Computers – Difficulties
with problem solving – problem solving concepts for the Computer –
Constants and Variables – Rules for Naming and using variables –
Data types – numeric data – character data – logical data – rules for
data types – examples of data types – storing the data in computer -
Functions – Operators – Expressions and Equations
Unit-3 Teaching Hours:5
PLANNING FOR SOLUTION  
Communicating with computer – organizing the solution –
Analyzing the problem – developing the interactivity chart –
developing the IPO chart – Writing the algorithms – drawing the
flow charts – pseudocode – internal and external documentation –
testing the solution – coding the solution – software development life
cycle.
Unit-4 Teaching Hours:10
PROBLEM SOLVING  
Introduction to programming structure – pointers for structuring a
solution – modules and their functions – cohesion and coupling –
problem solving with logic structure. Problem solving with decisions
– the decision logic structure – straight through logic – positive logic
– negative logic – logic conversion – decision tables – case logic
structure -  examples.
Text Books And Reference Books:

[1] Thomas L.Floyd and R.P.Jain,“Digital Fundamentals”,8th

Edition, Pearson Education,2007.

[2] Peter Norton “Introduction to Computers”,6th Edition, Tata Mc

Graw Hill, New Delhi,2006.

[3] Maureen Sprankle and Jim Hubbard, Problem-solving and

programming concepts, PHI, 9th Edition, 2012
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
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[1]. E Balagurusamy, Fundamentals of Computers, TMH, 2011

 
Evaluation Pattern

CIA: 50%

ESE: 50%
MDS161BL - INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTERS
AND PROGRAMMING (2021 Batch)
No of Lecture
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:30
Hours/Week:2
Max Marks:50 Credits:2
Course Objectives/Course Description  
To enable the students to understand the fundamental concepts of
problem solving and programming structures.

 
Learning Outcome
CO1: Demonstrate the systematic approach for problem solving
using computers. EM

CO2: Apply different programming structure with suitable logic for

computational problems. EM+S
Unit-1 Teaching Hours:10
COMPUTERS AND DIGITAL
 
BASICS
Number Representation – Decimal, Binary, Octal, Hexadecimal and
BCD numbers – Binary Arithmetic – Binary addition – Unsigned
and Signed numbers – one’s and two’s complements of Binary
numbers – Arithmetic operations with signed numbers - Number
system conversions – Boolean Algebra – Logic gates – Design of
Circuits – K - Map
Unit-2 Teaching Hours:5
GENERAL PROBLEM SOLVING
 
CONCEPT
Types of Problems – Problem solving with Computers – Difficulties
with problem solving – problem solving concepts for the Computer –
Constants and Variables – Rules for Naming and using variables –
Data types – numeric data – character data – logical data – rules for
data types – examples of data types – storing the data in computer -
Functions – Operators – Expressions and Equations
Unit-3 Teaching Hours:5

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PLANNING FOR SOLUTION  

Communicating with computer – organizing the solution –
Analyzing the problem – developing the interactivity chart –
developing the IPO chart – Writing the algorithms – drawing the
flow charts – pseudocode – internal and external documentation –
testing the solution – coding the solution – software development life
cycle.
Unit-4 Teaching Hours:10
PROBLEM SOLVING  
Introduction to programming structure – pointers for structuring a
solution – modules and their functions – cohesion and coupling –
problem solving with logic structure. Problem

solving with decisions – the decision logic structure – straight

through logic – positive logic – negative logic – logic conversion –
decision tables – case logic structure - examples.
Text Books And Reference Books:

[1]Thomas L.Floyd and R.P.Jain,“Digital Fundamentals”,8th

Edition, Pearson Education,2007.

[2]Peter Norton “Introduction to Computers”,6th Edition, Tata Mc

Graw Hill, New Delhi,2006.

[3]Maureen Sprankle and Jim Hubbard, Problem solving and

programming concepts, PHI, 9th Edition, 2012

 
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
[1]. EBalagurusamy,FundamentalsofComputers, TMH,2011
Evaluation Pattern
CIA:50%
 

ESE:50%
MDS161C - LINUX ADMINISTRATION (2021 Batch)
No of Lecture
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:30
Hours/Week:2
Max Marks:50 Credits:2
Course Objectives/Course Description  
To Enable the students to excel in the Linux Platform
Learning Outcome

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CO1: Demostrate the systematic approach for configure the Liux

environment

CO2: Manage the Linux environment to work with open source data
science tools
Unit-1 Teaching Hours:10
Module-1  
RHEL7.5,breaking root password, Understand and use essential tools for handling
files, directories, command-line environments, and documentation - Configure
local storage using partitions and logical volumes
Unit-2 Teaching Hours:10
Module-2  
Swapping, Extend LVM Partitions,LVM Snapshot - Manage users and groups,
including use of a centralized directory for authentication
Unit-3 Teaching Hours:10
Module-3  
Kernel updations,yum and nmcli configuration, Scheduling jobs,at,crontab -
Configure firewall settings using firewall config, firewall-cmd, or iptables ,
Configure key-based authentication for SSH ,Set enforcing and permissive modes
for SELinux , List and identify SELinux file and process context ,Restore default
file contexts
Text Books And Reference Books:
1.    https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/

2.    https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading

-
Evaluation Pattern

CIA:50%

ESE:50%
MDS161LA - INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS (2021 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:1 No of Lecture Hours/Week:2
Max Marks:50 Credits:2
Course Objectives/Course Description  

  To enable the students to understand the fundamentals of statistics to apply descriptive

measures and probability for data analysis.
Learning Outcome
  CO1: Demonstrate the history of statistics and present the data in various forms.

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CO2: Infer the concept of correlation and regression for relating two or more related
variables.

CO3: Demonstrate the probabilities for various events.

Unit-1 Teaching Hours:8

ORGANIZATION AND PRESENTATION OF
 
DATA
Origin and development of Statistics, Scope, limitation and misuse of statistics. Types of data:
primary, secondary, quantitative and qualitative data. Types of Measurements: nominal,
ordinal, discrete and continuous data. Presentation of data by tables: construction of
frequency distributions for discrete and continuous data, graphical representation of a
frequency distribution by histogram and frequency polygon, cumulative frequency
distributions
Unit-2 Teaching Hours:8
DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS  
Measures of location or central tendency: Arthimetic mean, Median, Mode, Geometric mean,
Harmonic mean. Partition values: Quartiles, Deciles and percentiles. Measures of dispersion:
Mean deviation, Quartile deviation, Standard deviation, Coefficient of variation. Moments:
measures of skewness, Kurtosis
Unit-3 Teaching Hours:7
CORRELATION AND REGRESSION  
Correlation: Scatter plot, Karl Pearson coefficient of correlation, Spearman's rank correlation
coefficient, multiple and partial correlations (for 3 variates only). Regression: Concept of
errors, Principles of Least Square, Simple linear regression and its properties
Unit-4 Teaching Hours:7
BASICS OF PROBABILITY  
Random experiment, sample point and sample space, event, algebra of events. Definition of
Probability: classical, empirical and axiomatic approaches to probability, properties of
probability. Theorems on probability, conditional probability and independent events, Laws of
total probability, Baye’s theorem and its applications
Text Books And Reference Books:
[1]. Rohatgi V.K and Saleh E, An Introduction to Probability and Statistics, 3rd edition,
John Wiley & Sons Inc., New Jersey, 2015.

[2]. Gupta S.C and Kapoor V.K, Fundamentals of Mathematical Statistics, 11th edition,
Sultan Chand & Sons, New Delhi, 2014.
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
[1]. Mukhopadhyay P, Mathematical Statistics, Books and Allied (P) Ltd, Kolkata,
2015.

[2]. Walpole R.E, Myers R.H, and Myers S.L, Probability and Statistics for
Engineers and Scientists, Pearson, New Delhi, 2017.

[3]. Montgomery D.C and Runger G.C, Applied Statistics and Probability for
Engineers, Wiley India, New Delhi, 2013.

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[4]. Mood A.M, Graybill F.A and Boes D.C, Introduction to the Theory of Statistics, McGraw
Hill, New Delhi, 2008.
Evaluation Pattern
CIA - 50%

ESE - 50%
MDS171 - DATA BASE TECHNOLOGIES (2021 Batch)
No of Lecture
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:90
Hours/Week:6
Max Marks:150 Credits:5
Course Objectives/Course Description  
The main objective of this course is to fundamental knowledge and practical
experience with, database concepts. It includes the concepts and terminologies
which facilitate the construction of relational databases, writing effective queries
comprehend data warehouse and NoSQL databases and its types
Learning Outcome
CO1: Demonstrate various databases and Compose effective queries

CO2: Understanding the process of OLAP system construction

CO3: Develop applications using Relational and NoSQL databases.

Unit-1 Teaching Hours:18
INTRODUCTION  
 Concept & Overview of DBMS, Data Models, Database Languages,
Database Administrator, Database Users, Three Schema architecture
of DBMS. Basic concepts, Design Issues, Mapping Constraints,
Keys, Entity-Relationship Diagram, Weak Entity Sets, Extended E-R
features

 Lab Exercises

1. Data Definition,

2. Table Creation

3. Constraints
Unit-2 Teaching Hours:18
RELATIONAL MODEL AND
 
DATABASE DESIGN
SQL and Integrity Constraints, Concept of DDL, DML, DCL. Basic
Structure, Set operations, Aggregate Functions, Null Values, Domain
Constraints, Referential Integrity Constraints, assertions, views,
Nested Subqueries, Functional Dependency, Different anomalies in

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designing a Database, Normalization: using functional dependencies,

Boyce-Codd Normal Form, 4NF

 Lab Exercises

1. Insert, Select, Update & Delete Commands

2. Nested Queries & Join Queries

3. Views
Unit-3 Teaching Hours:18
DATA WAREHOUSE: THE BUILDING
 
BLOCKS
Defining Features, Data Warehouses and Data Marts, Architectural
Types, Overview of the  Components, Metadata in the Data
warehouse, Data Design and Data Preparation: Principles of
Dimensional Modeling, Dimensional Modeling Advanced Topics
From Requirements To Data Design, The Star Schema, Star Schema
Keys, Advantages of the Star Schema, Star Schema: Examples,
Dimensional Modeling: Advanced Topics, Updates to the Dimension
Tables, Miscellaneous Dimensions, The Snowflake Schema,
Aggregate Fact Tables, Families Oo Stars

 Lab Exercises:

1. Importing source data structures

2. Design Target Data Structures
3. Create target multidimensional cube
Unit-4 Teaching Hours:18
DATA INTEGRATION and DATA
 
FLOW (ETL)
Requirements, ETL Data Structures, Extracting, Cleaning and
Conforming, Delivering Dimension Tables, Delivering Fact Tables,
Real-Time ETL Systems

 Lab Exercises:

1. Perform the ETL process and transform into data map

2. Create the cube and process it

3. Generating Reports

4. Creating the Pivot table and pivot chart using some existing data
Unit-5 Teaching Hours:18
NOSQL Databases  

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Introduction to NOSQL Systems, The CAP Theorem, Document-

Based NOSQL Systems and MongoDB, NOSQL Key-Value Stores,
Column-Based or Wide Column NOSQL Systems, Graph databases,
Multimedia databases.

 Lab Exercises:

1. MongoDB Exercise - 1

2. MongoDB Exercise - 2
Text Books And Reference Books:

[1]. Henry F. Korth and Silberschatz Abraham, “Database System

Concepts”, Mc.Graw Hill.

[2]. Thomas Cannolly and Carolyn Begg, “Database Systems, A

Practical Approach to Design, Implementation and Management”,
Third Edition, Pearson Education, 2007.

[3]. The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Complete Guide to

Dimensional Modeling, 2nd John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York,
USA, 2002
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading

[1] LiorRokach and OdedMaimon, Data Mining and Knowledge

Discovery Handbook, Springer, 2nd edition, 2010.
Evaluation Pattern

CIA: 50%

ESE: 50%
MDS171L - DATABASE TECHNOLOGIES (2021
Batch)

No of Lecture
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:90
Hours/Week:6
Max Marks:150 Credits:5
Course Objectives/Course Description  
Course Description and Course Objectives
The main objective of this course is to fundamental knowledge and practical
experience with, database concepts. It includes the concepts and terminologies
 
which facilitate the construction of relational databases, writing effective
queries comprehend data warehouse and NoSQL databases and its types

Learning Outcome
CO1: Demonstrate various databases and Compose effective queries

CO2: Understanding the process of OLAP system construction

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CO3: Develop applications using Relational and NoSQL databases.

Unit-1 Teaching Hours:18
INTRODUCTION  
Concept & Overview of DBMS, Data Models, Database Languages, Database
Administrator, Database Users, Three Schema architecture of DBMS. Basic
concepts, Design Issues, Mapping Constraints, Keys, Entity-Relationship Diagram,
Weak Entity Sets, Extended E-R features

 Lab Exercises

1. Data Definition,

2. Table Creation

3. Constraints
Unit-2 Teaching Hours:18
RELATIONAL MODEL AND
 
DATABASE DESIGN
SQL and Integrity Constraints, Concept of DDL, DML, DCL. Basic Structure, Set
operations, Aggregate Functions, Null Values, Domain Constraints, Referential
Integrity Constraints, assertions, views, Nested Subqueries, Functional Dependency,
Different anomalies in designing a Database, Normalization: using functional
dependencies, Boyce-Codd Normal Form, 4NF

 Lab Exercises

1. Insert, Select, Update & Delete Commands

2. Nested Queries & Join Queries

3. Views
Unit-3 Teaching Hours:18
DATA WAREHOUSE: THE BUILDING
 
BLOCKS
Defining Features, Data Warehouses and Data Marts, Architectural Types, Overview
of the  Components, Metadata in the Data warehouse, Data Design and Data
Preparation: Principles of Dimensional Modeling, Dimensional Modeling Advanced
Topics From Requirements To Data Design, The Star Schema, Star Schema Keys,
Advantages of the Star Schema, Star Schema: Examples, Dimensional Modeling:
Advanced Topics, Updates to the Dimension Tables, Miscellaneous Dimensions,
The Snowflake Schema, Aggregate Fact Tables, Families Oo Stars

Lab Exercises:

1. Importing source data structures

2. Design Target Data Structures

3. Create target multidimensional cube

Unit-4 Teaching Hours:18
DATA INTEGRATION and DATA
 
FLOW (ETL)
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Requirements, ETL Data Structures, Extracting, Cleaning and Conforming,
Delivering Dimension Tables, Delivering Fact Tables, Real-Time ETL Systems

 Lab Exercises:

1. Perform the ETL process and transform into data map

2. Create the cube and process it

3. Generating Reports

4. Creating the Pivot table and pivot chart using some existing data

Unit-5 Teaching Hours:18

NOSQL DATABASES  
Introduction to NOSQL Systems, The CAP Theorem, Document-Based NOSQL
Systems and MongoDB, NOSQL Key-Value Stores, Column-Based or Wide
Column NOSQL Systems, Graph databases, Multimedia databases.

 Lab Exercises:

1. MongoDB Exercise - 1

2. MongoDB Exercise - 2
Text Books And Reference Books:
[1]. Henry F. Korth and Silberschatz Abraham, “Database System Concepts”,
Mc.Graw Hill.

[2]. Thomas Cannolly and Carolyn Begg, “Database Systems, A Practical

  Approach to Design, Implementation and Management”, Third Edition, Pearson
Education, 2007.

[3]. The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Complete Guide to Dimensional

Modeling, 2nd John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York, USA, 2002

Essential Reading / Recommended Reading

[1] LiorRokach and OdedMaimon, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
Handbook, Springer, 2nd edition, 2010.
Evaluation Pattern
CIA: 50%
 
ESE: 50%

MDS172 - INFERENTIAL STATISTICS (2021 Batch)

No of Lecture
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:90
Hours/Week:6
Max Marks:150 Credits:5
Course Objectives/Course Description  
Statistical inference plays an important role in modeling data and decision-
making from the real-world phenomenon. This course is designed to impart

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the knowledge of testing of hypothesis and estimation of parameters for real-

life data sets.
Learning Outcome
CO1: Demonstrate the concepts of population and samples.

CO2: Apply the idea of sampling distribution of different statistics in

testing of hypothesis

CO3: Test the hypothesis using nonparametric tests for real world
problems.

CO4: Estimate the unknown population parameters using the

concepts of point and interval estimations.
Unit-1 Teaching Hours:18
INTRODUCTION  
Population and Statistics – Finite and Infinite population – Parameter and
Statistics – Types of sampling - Sampling Distribution – Sampling Error -
Standard Error – Test of significance –concept of hypothesis – types of
hypothesis – Errors in hypothesis-testing – Critical region – level of
significance - Power of the test – p-value.
Lab Exercise:
1. Calculation of sampling error and standard error
2. Calculation of probability of critical region using standard distributions
3. Calculation of power of the test using standard distributions.
Unit-2 Teaching Hours:18
TESTING OF HYPOTHESIS I  
Concept of large and small samples – Tests concerning a single population
mean for known σ – equality of two means for known σ – Test for Single
variance - Test for equality of two variance for normal population – Tests for
single proportion – Tests of equality of two proportions for the normal
population.
 
Lab Exercise:
4. Test of the single sample mean for known σ.
5. Test of equality of two means when known σ
6. Tests of single variance and equality of variance for large samples
7. Tests for single proportion and equality of two proportion for large
samples.
Unit-3 Teaching Hours:18
TESTING OF HYPOTHESIS II  
Students t-distribution and its properties (without proofs) – Single sample
mean test – Independent sample mean test – Paired sample mean test – Tests
of proportion (based on t distribution) – F distribution and its properties
(without proofs) – Tests of equality of two variances using F-test – Chi-
square distribution and its properties (without proofs) – chisquare  test for
independence of attributes – Chi-square test for goodness of fit.
 
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Lab Exercise:
8. Single sample mean test
9. Independent and Paired sample mean test
10. Tests of proportion of one and two samples based on t-distribution
11. Test of equality of two variances
12. Chi-square test for independence of attributes and goodness of fit.
Unit-4 Teaching Hours:18
ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE  
Meaning and assumptions - Fixed, random and mixed effect models -
Analysis of variance of one-way and two-way classified data with and
without interaction effects – Multiple comparison tests: Tukey’s method -
critical difference.
 
Lab Exercise:
13. Construction of one-way ANOVA
14. Construction of two-way ANOVA with interaction
15. Construction of two-way ANOVA without interaction

16. Multiple comparision test using Tukey’s method and critical difference
methods
Unit-5 Teaching Hours:18
NONPARAMETRIC TESTS  
Concept of Nonparametric tests - Run test for randomness - Sign test and
Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test for one and paired samples - Run test - Median
test and Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon tests for two samples.
 
Lab Exercise:
17. Test of one sample using Run and sign tests
18. Test of paried sample using Wilcoxon signed rank test
19. Test of two samples using Run test and Median test

20. Test for two samples using Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon tests

Text Books And Reference Books:

1. Gupta S.C and Kapoor V.K, Fundamentals of Mathematical

Statistics, 12th edition, Sultan Chand & Sons, New Delhi, 2020.

2. Brian Caffo, Statistical Inference for Data Science, Learnpub,

2016. 
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading

1. Walpole R.E, Myers R.H and Myers S.L, Probability and Statistics
for Engineers and Scientists, 9th edition, Pearson, New Delhi, 2017.

2. John V, Using R for Introductory Statistics, 2nd edition, CRC

Press, Boca Raton, 2014.

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3. Rajagopalan M and Dhanavanthan P, Statistical Inference, PHI

Learning (P) Ltd, New Delhi, 2012.

4. Rohatgi V.K and Saleh E, An Introduction to Probability and

Statistics, 3rd edition, JohnWiley & Sons Inc, New Jersey, 2015.
Evaluation Pattern

CIA: 50%

ESE:50%
MDS172L - INFERENTIAL STATISTICS (2021 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for No of Lecture
Semester:90 Hours/Week:6
Max Marks:150 Credits:5
Course Objectives/Course
 
Description
This course is designed to introduce the concepts of theory of
estimation and testing of hypothesis. This paper also deals with the
concept of parametric tests for large and small  samples. It also
provides knowledge about non-parametric tests and its applications
Learning Outcome
CO1: Demonstrate the concepts of point and interval estimation of
unknown parameters and  their significance using large and small
samples.

CO2: Apply the idea of sampling distributions of different statistics

in testing of hypotheses.

CO3: Infer the concept of nonparametric tests for single sample and
two samples.
Unit-1 Teaching Hours:15
SUFFICIENT STATISTICS  
Neyman - Fisher Factorisation theorem - the existence and
construction of minimal sufficient statistics - Minimal sufficient
statistics and exponential family - sufficiency and completeness  -
sufficiency and invariance.

Lab Excercise 

1. Drawing random samples using random number tables.

2. Point estimation of parameters and obtaining estimates of standard

errors.

 
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Unit-2 Teaching Hours:15

UNBIASED ESTIMATION  
Minimum variance unbiased estimation - locally minimum variance
unbiased estimators -  Rao Blackwell – theorem – Completeness:
Lehmann Scheffe theorems - Necessary and sufficient condition for
unbiased estimators - Cramer- Rao lower bound -
Bhattacharya system of lower bounds in the 1-parameter regular case
- Chapman -Robbins inequality

Lab Excercise 

1. Comparison of estimators by plotting mean square error.

2. Computing maximum likelihood estimates -1

3. Computing maximum likelihood estimates - 2

4. Computing moment estimates

Unit-3 Teaching Hours:15
MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD
 
ESTIMATION
Computational routines - strong consistency of maximum likelihood
estimators - Asymptotic  Efficiency of maximum likelihood
estimators - Best Asymptotically Normal estimators -  Method of
moments - Bayes’ and minimax estimation: The structure of Bayes’
rules - Bayes’  estimators for quadratic and convex loss functions -
minimax estimation - interval estimation.

Lab Exercise: 

1. Constructing confidence intervals based on large samples.

2. Constructing confidence intervals based on small samples.

3. Generating random samples from discrete distributions.

4. Generating random samples from continuous distributions.

Unit-4 Teaching Hours:15
HYPOTHESIS TESTING  
Uniformly most powerful tests - the Neyman-Pearson fundamental
Lemma - Distributions with monotone likelihood ratio - Problems -
Generalization of the fundamental lemma, two  sided hypotheses -
testing the mean and variance of a normal distribution.

Lab Excercise :

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1. Evaluation of probabilities of Type-I and Type-II errors and

powers of tests.

2. MP test for parameters of binomial and Poisson distributions.

3. MP test for the mean of a normal distribution and power curve.

4. Tests for mean, equality of means when variance is (i) known, (ii)
unknown under normality

(small and large samples)

Unit-5 Teaching Hours:15
MEAN TESTS  
Unbiased ness for hypotheses testing - similarity and completeness -
UMP unbiased tests for multi-parameter exponential families -
comparing two Poisson or Binomial populations -  testing the
parameters of a normal distribution (unbiased tests) - comparing the
mean and  variance of two normal distributions - Symmetry and
invariance - maximal invariance - most powerful invariant tests.

Lab Excercise:

1. Tests for single proportion and equality of two proportions.

2. Tests for variance and equality of two variances under normality

3. Tests for correlation and regression coefficients.

Unit-6 Teaching Hours:15
SEQUENCTIAL TESTS  
SPRT procedures - likelihood ratio tests - locally most powerful tests
- the concept of confidence sets - non parametric tests.

Lab Exercise :

1. Tests for the independence of attributes, analysis of categorical

data and tests for the goodness  of fit.(For uniform, binomial and
Poisson distributions)

2. Nonparametric tests.

3. SPRT for binomial proportion and mean of a normal distribution.

Text Books And Reference Books:

[1]. Rajagopalan M and Dhanavanthan P, Statistical Inference, PHI

Learning (P) Ltd, New Delhi, 2012.

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[2]. An Introduction to Probability and Statistics, V.K Rohatgi and

Saleh, 3rd Edition, 2015.
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading

[1]. Introduction to the theory of statistics, A.M Mood, F.A Graybill

and D.C Boes, Tata McGraw-Hill, 3rd Edition (Reprint), 2017.

[2]. Linear Statistical Inference and its Applications, Rao C.R, Willy
Publications, 2nd Edition, 2001.
Evaluation Pattern

CIA - 50%

ESE - 50%
MDS173 - PROGRAMMING FOR DATA
SCIENCE IN PYTHON (2021 Batch)
No of Lecture
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:90
Hours/Week:6
Max Marks:100 Credits:4
Course Objectives/Course Description  
The objective of this course is to provide comprehensive
knowledge of python programming paradigms required for
Data Science.
Learning Outcome

CO1: Demonstrate the use of built-in objects of Python

CO2:Demonstrate     significant     experience     with     
python     program     development environment
CO3:Implement    numerical    programming,    data   
handling    and    visualization    through NumPy, Pandas
and MatplotLibmodules.

Unit-1 Teaching Hours:17

INTRODUCTION TO PYTHON  
Structure of Python Program-Underlying mechanism of Module Execution-Branching and
Looping-Problem Solving Using Branches and Loops-Functions - Lists and Mutability-
Problem Solving Using Lists and Functions

 
Lab Exercises
1.      Demonstrate usage of branching and loopingstatements

2.      Demonstrate Recursivefunctions

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3.      DemonstrateLists
Unit-2 Teaching Hours:17
SEQUENCE DATATYPES AND OBJECT-ORIENTED
 
PROGRAMMING
 

Sequences, Mapping and Sets- Dictionaries- -Classes: Classes and Instances-Inheritance-

Exceptional Handling-Introduction to Regular Expressions using “re” module.
Lab Exercises
1.      Demonstrate Tuples andSets

2.      DemonstrateDictionaries

3.      Demonstrate inheritance and exceptionalhandling

4.      Demonstrate use of“re”

Unit-3 Teaching Hours:13
USING NUMPY  
 

Basics of NumPy-Computation on NumPy-Aggregations-Computation on Arrays-

Comparisons, Masks and Boolean Arrays-Fancy Indexing-Sorting Arrays-Structured
Data: NumPy’s Structured Array.
Lab Exercises
1.      DemonstrateAggregation

2.      Demonstrate Indexing andSorting

Unit-4 Teaching Hours:13
DATA MANIPULATION WITH PANDAS -I  
 

Introduction to Pandas Objects-Data indexing and Selection-Operating on Data in Pandas-

Handling Missing Data-Hierarchical Indexing - Combining Data Sets
Lab Exercises
1.      Demonstrate handling of missingdata

2.      Demonstrate hierarchicalindexing

Unit-5 Teaching Hours:17
DATA MANIPULATION WITH PANDAS -II  
 

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Aggregation and Grouping-Pivot Tables-Vectorized String Operations -Working with

Time Series-High Performance Pandas- and query()
Lab Exercises
1.      Demonstrate usage of Pivottable

2.      Demonstrate use of andquery()

Unit-6 Teaching Hours:13
VISUALIZATION AND MATPLOTLIB  
 

Basic functions of matplotlib-Simple Line Plot, Scatter Plot-Density and Contour

Plots- Histograms, Binnings and Density-Customizing Plot Legends, Colour Bars-
Three- Dimensional Plotting in Matplotlib.
Lab Exercises
1.      DemonstrateScatterPlot

2.      Demonstrate3Dplotting
Text Books And Reference Books:
[1]. Jake VanderPlas ,Python Data Science Handbook - Essential Tools for Working
with Data, O’Reily Media,Inc, 2016
[2].   Zhang.Y   ,An   Introduction   to    Python   and   Computer   Programming,  
Springer Publications,2016
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
[1].JoelGrus,DataSciencefromScratchFirstPrincipleswithPython,O’ReillyMedia,2016
[2]. T.R.Padmanabhan, Programming with Python,SpringerPublications,2016
Evaluation Pattern

CIA:  50%

ESE: 50%

 
MDS173L - PROGRAMMING OF DATA SCIENCE IN PYTHON (2021
Batch)

No of Lecture
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:90
Hours/Week:6
Max Marks:100 Credits:4
Course Objectives/Course Description  
This course aims at laying down the foundational concepts of python programming. Starting
with the fundamental programming using python, it escalates to the advanced programming

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concepts required for Data Science. It enables the students to organize, process and
visualize data using the packages available in Python.

The objective of this course is to provide knowledge of python programming paradigms

required for Data Science.
Learning Outcome
CO1: Understand and demonstrate the usage of built-in objects in Python

CO2:Analyze the significance of python program development environment and apply it to

solve real world applications

CO3: Implement numerical programming, data handling and visualization through NumPy,
Pandas and MatplotLib modules.
Unit-1 Teaching Hours:17
INTRODUCTION TO PYTHON  
Structure of Python Program-Underlying mechanism of Module Execution-
Branching and Looping-Problem Solving Using Branches and Loops-Functions -
Lists and Mutability- Problem Solving Using Lists and Functions
Unit-2 Teaching Hours:17
SEQUENCE DATATYPES AND OBJECT-
 
ORIENTED PROGRAMMING
Sequences, Mapping and Sets- Dictionaries- -Classes: Classes and Instances-
Inheritance- Exceptional Handling-Introduction to Regular Expressions using “re”
module.
Unit-3 Teaching Hours:13
USING NUMPY  
Basics of NumPy-Computation on NumPy-Aggregations-Computation on Arrays-
Comparisons, Masks and Boolean Arrays-Fancy Indexing-Sorting Arrays-Structured
Data: NumPy’s Structured Array.
Unit-4 Teaching Hours:13
DATA MANIPULATION WITH PANDAS -I  
Introduction to Pandas Objects-Data indexing and Selection-Operating on Data in
Pandas- Handling Missing Data-Hierarchical Indexing - Combining Data Sets
Unit-5 Teaching Hours:17
DATA MANIPULATION WITH PANDAS -II  
Aggregation and Grouping-Pivot Tables-Vectorized String Operations -Working
with Time Series-High Performance Pandas- and query()
Unit-6 Teaching Hours:13
VISUALIZATION AND MATPLOTLIB  
Basic functions of matplotlib-Simple Line Plot, Scatter Plot-Density and Contour
Plots- Histograms, Binnings and Density-Customizing Plot Legends, Colour Bars-
Three- Dimensional Plotting in Matplotlib
Text Books And Reference Books:

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1. Jake VanderPlas ,Python Data Science Handbook -

Essential Tools for Working with   Data, O’Reily Media,Inc,
2016

2. Zhang.Y ,An Introduction to Python and Computer

Programming, Springer Publications,2016
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading

1.   Joel Grus ,Data Science from Scratch First Principles with

Python, O’Reilly Media,2016.
2.   T.R.Padmanabhan, Programming with Python,Springer
Publications,2016
3. "CS41 - The Python Programming
Language",  Stanfordpython.com, 2019. [Online]. Available:
https://stanfordpython.com/#overview. [Accessed: 20- Jun-
2019].
4.   "Python for Data Science",  Cognitive Class, 2019. [Online].
Available: https://cognitiveclass.ai/courses/python-for-data-
science/. [Accessed: 20- Jun- 2019].

 
Evaluation Pattern

CIA I CIA  II CIA III Attendance ESE

10% 25% 10% 5% 50%

MDS231 - MATHEMATICAL FOUNDATION FOR

DATA SCIENCE - II (2021 Batch)
No of Lecture
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:60
Hours/Week:4
Max Marks:100 Credits:4
Course Objectives/Course Description  
This course aims at introducing data science related essential
mathematics concepts such as fundamentals of topics on Calculus of
several variables, Orthogonality, Convex optimization and Graph
Theory.
Learning Outcome
CO1: Demonstrate the properties of multivariate calculus
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CO2: Use the idea of orthogonality and projections effectively

CO3: Have a clear understanding of Convex Optimization

CO4: Know the about the basic terminologies and properties in

Graph Theory
Unit-1 Teaching Hours:14
Calculus of Several Variables  
Functions of Several Variables: Functions of two, three variables - Limits and
continuity in HIgher Dimensions: Limits for functions of two variables, Functions of
more than two variables - Partial Derivatives: partial derivative of functions of two
variables, partial derivatives of functions of more than two variables, partial
derivatives and continuity, second order partial derivatives - The Chain Rule: chain
rule on functions of two, three variables, chain rule on functions defined on surfaces
- Directional Derivative and Gradient vectors: Directional derivatives in a plane,
Interpretation of directional derivative, calculation and gradients, Gradients and
tangents to level curves.
Unit-2 Teaching Hours:10
Orthogonality  
Perpendicular vectors and Orthogonality - Inner Products and Projections onto lines
- Projections of Rank one - Projections and Least Squares Approximations -
Projection Matrices - Orthogonal Bases, Orthogonal Matrices and Gram-Schmidt
orthogonalization
Unit-3 Teaching Hours:12
Introduction to Convex
 
Optimization
Affine and Convex Sets: Lines and Line segments, affine sets, affine dimension
andrelative interior, convexsets, cones - Hyperplanes and half-spaces - Euclidean
balls and ellipsoids- Norm balls and Norm cones - polyhedra - simplexes, Convex
hull description of polyhedra - The positive semidefinitecone.

 
Unit-4 Teaching Hours:12
Graph Theory - Basics  
Graph Classes: Definition of a Graph and Graph terminology, isomorphism of
graphs, Completegraphs, bipartite graphs, complete bipartite graphs-Vertex degree:
adjacency and incidence, regular graphs - subgraphs, spanning subgraphs, induced
subgraphs, removing or adding edges of a graph, removing vertices from graphs -
Graph Operations: Graph Union, intersection, complement, self complement, Paths
and Cycles, Connected graphs, Eulerian and HamiltonianGraphs.

 
Unit-5 Teaching Hours:12
Graph Theory - More concepts  
Matrix Representation of Graphs, Adjacency matrices, Incidence Matrices, Trees
and its properties, Bridges (cut-edges), spanning trees, weighted Graphs, minimal
spanning tree problems, Shortest path problems, cut vertices, cuts, vertex and edge
connectivity,  Graph Algorithms - Applications of Graph Theory

 
Text Books And Reference Books:

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1.        M. D. Weir, J. Hass, and G. B. Thomas, Thomas'

calculus. Pearson, 2016. (Unit 1)

2.        G Strang, Linear Algebra and its Applications, 4th ed.,

Cengage, 2006. (Unit 2)

3.        S. P. Boyd and L.Vandenberghe, Convex

optimization.Cambridge Univ. Pr., 2011.(Unit 3)

4.        J Clark, D A Holton, A first look at Graph Theory, Allied

Publishers India, 1995. (Unit 4)
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading

1.J. Patterson and A. Gibson, Deep learning: a practitioner's

approach. O'Reilly Media, 2017.

2.S. Sra, S. Nowozin, and S. J. Wright, Optimization for machine

learning. MIT Press, 2012.

3.D. Jungnickel, Graphs, networks and algorithms. Springer, 2014.

4.D Samovici, Mathematical Analysis for Machine Learning and

Data Mining, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd, 2018

5.P. N. Klein, Coding the matrix: linear algebra through applications

to computer science. Newtonian Press, 2015.

6.K H Rosen, Discrete Mathematics and its applications, 7th ed.,

McGraw Hill, 2016
Evaluation Pattern

CIA:50%

ESE :50%
MDS232 - REGRESSION ANALYSIS (2021 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for No of Lecture
Semester:60 Hours/Week:4
Max Marks:100 Credits:4
Course Objectives/Course
 
Description
This course aims to provide the grounding knowledge about the regression
model building of simple and multiple regression.
Learning Outcome

CO1: Demonstrate deeper understanding of the linear regression model.

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CO2: Evaluate R-square criteria for model selection

CO3: Understand the forward, backward and stepwise methods for selecting
the variables

CO4: Understand the importance of multicollinearity in regression modelling

CO5: Ability touse and understand generalizations of the linear model to

binary and count data
Unit-1 Teaching Hours:13
SIMPLE LINEAR REGRESSION  
Introduction to regression analysis: Modelling a response, overview and
applications of regression analysis, major steps in regression analysis. Simple
linear regression (Two variables): assumptions, estimation and properties of
regression coefficients, significance and confidence intervals of regression
coefficients, measuring the quality of the fit.
Unit-2 Teaching Hours:13
MULTIPLE LINEAR
 
REGRESSION
Multiple linear regression model: assumptions, ordinary least square
estimation of regression coefficients, interpretation and properties of
regression coefficient, significance and confidence intervals of regression
coefficients.
Unit-3 Teaching Hours:12
CRITERIA FOR MODEL
 
SELECTION
Mean Square error criteria, R2 and  criteria for model selection; Need of the
transformation of variables; Box-Cox transformation; Forward, Backward
and Stepwise procedures.
Unit-4 Teaching Hours:12
RESIDUAL ANALYSIS  
Residual analysis, Departures from underlying assumptions, Effect of
outliers, Collinearity, Non-constant variance and serial correlation,
Departures from normality, Diagnostics and remedies.
Unit-5 Teaching Hours:10
NON LINEAR REGRESSION  
Introduction to nonlinear regression, Least squares in the nonlinear case and
estimation of parameters, Models for binary response variables, estimation
and diagnosis methods for logistic and Poisson regressions. Prediction and
residual analysis.
Text Books And Reference Books:
[1].D.C Montgomery, E.A Peck and G.G Vining, Introduction to Linear
Regression Analysis, John Wiley and Sons,Inc.NY, 2003.

[2]. S. Chatterjee and AHadi, Regression Analysis by Example, 4th Ed., John
Wiley and Sons, Inc, 2006

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[3].Seber, A.F. and Lee, A.J. (2003) Linear Regression Analysis, John Wiley,
Relevant sections from chapters 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10.
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
[1]. Iain Pardoe, Applied Regression Modeling, John Wiley and Sons, Inc,
2012.

[2]. P. McCullagh, J.A. Nelder, Generalized Linear Models, Chapman &

Hall, 1989.
Evaluation Pattern

CIA - 50%

ESE - 50%
MDS241A - MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS (2021 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for No of Lecture
Semester:60 Hours/Week:4
Max Marks:100 Credits:4
Course Objectives/Course
 
Description
This course lays the foundation of Multivariate data analysis. The exposure
 
provided to multivariate data structure, multinomial and multivariate normal
distribution, estimation and testing of parameters, various data reduction
methods would help the students in having a better understanding of research
data, its presentation and analysis.
Learning Outcome
CO1: Understand multivariate data structure, multinomial and multivariate
normal distribution

CO2: Apply Multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) of one and two-

way classified data.

Unit-1 Teaching Hours:12

INTRODUCTION  
Basic concepts on multivariate variable. Multivariate normal distribution,
Marginal and conditional distribution, Concept of random vector: Its
expectation and Variance-Covariance matrix. Marginal and joint
distributions. Conditional distributions and Independence of random vectors.
Multinomial distribution. Sample mean vector and its distribution.
Unit-2 Teaching Hours:12
DISTRIBUTION  
Sample mean vector and its distribution. Likelihood ratio tests: Tests of
hypotheses about the mean vectors and covariance matrices for multivariate
normal populations. Independence of sub vectors and sphericity test.
Unit-3 Teaching Hours:12
MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS  

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Multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) of one and two- way classified

data. Multivariate analysis of covariance.  Wishart distribution, Hotelling’s
T2 and Mahalanobis’ D2 statistics, Null distribution of Hotelling’s T2. Rao’s
U statistics and its distribution.
Unit-4 Teaching Hours:12
CLASSIFICATION AND
 
DISCRIMINANT PROCEDURES
Bayes, minimax, and Fisher’s criteria for discrimination between two
multivariate normal populations. Sample discriminant function. Tests
associated with discriminant functions. Probabilities of misclassification and
their estimation. Discrimination for several multivariate normal populations
Unit-5 Teaching Hours:12
PRINCIPAL COMPONENT and FACTOR
 
ANALYSIS
Principal components, sample principal components asymptotic properties.
Canonical variables and canonical correlations: definition, estimation,
computations. Test for significance of canonical correlations.
Factor analysis: Orthogonal factor model, factor loadings, estimation of
factor loadings, factor scores.  Applications
Text Books And Reference Books:
[1]. Anderson, T.W. 2009.  An Introduction to Multivariate Statistical
Analysis, 3rd Edition, John Wiley.
[2]. Everitt B, Hothorn T, 2011. An Introduction to Applied Multivariate
Analysis with R, Springer.
[3]. Barry J. Babin, Hair, Rolph E Anderson, and William C. Blac,
2013,  Multivariate Data Analysis, Pearson New International Edition, 
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
[1] Giri, N.C. 1977. Multivariate Statistical Inference. Academic Press.
[2] Chatfield, C. and Collins, A.J. 1982. Introduction to Multivariate analysis.
Prentice Hall
[3] Srivastava, M.S. and Khatri, C.G. 1979. An Introduction to Multivariate
Statistics. North Holland
Evaluation Pattern

CIA - 50%

ESE - 50%
MDS241B - STOCHASTIC PROCESS (2021 Batch)
No of Lecture
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:60
Hours/Week:4
Max Marks:100 Credits:4
Course Objectives/Course Description  
This course is designed to introduce the concepts of theory of estimation and
testing of hypothesis. This paper also deals with the concept of parametric
tests for large and small samples. It also provides knowledge about non-
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Learning Outcome
CO1: Demonstrate the concepts of point and interval estimation of
unknown parameters and their significance using large and small
samples.

CO2: Apply the idea of sampling distributions of difference

statistics in testing of hypotheses.

CO3: Infer the concept of nonparametric tests for single sample and
two samples.
Unit-1 Teaching Hours:12
INTRODUCTION TO STOCHASTIC
 
PROCESSES
Classification of Stochastic Processes, Markov Processes – Markov Chain -
Countable State Markov Chain. Transition Probabilities, Transition
Probability Matrix. Chapman - Kolmogorov's Equations, Calculation of n -
step Transition Probability and its limit.
Unit-2 Teaching Hours:12
POISSON PROCESS  
Classification of States, Recurrent and Transient States - Transient Markov
Chain, Random Walk and Gambler's Ruin Problem. Continuous Time
Markov Process:, Poisson Processes, Birth and Death Processes,
Kolmogorov’s Differential Equations, Applications.
Unit-3 Teaching Hours:12
BRANCHING PROCESS  
Branching Processes – Galton – Watson Branching Process - Properties of
Generating Functions – Extinction Probabilities – Distribution of Total
Number of Progeny. Concept of Weiner Process.
Unit-4 Teaching Hours:12
RENEWAL PROCESS  
Renewal Processes – Renewal Process in Discrete and Continuous Time –
Renewal Interval – Renewal Function and Renewal Density – Renewal
Equation – Renewal theorems: Elementary Renewal Theorem. Probability
Generating Function of Renewal Processes.
Unit-5 Teaching Hours:12
STATIONARY PROCESS  
Stationary Processes: Discrete Parameter Stochastic Process – Application to
Time Series. Auto-covariance and Auto-correlation functions and their
properties. Moving Average, Autoregressive, Autoregressive Moving
Average, Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average Processes. Basic ideas
of residual analysis, diagnostic checking, forecasting.
Text Books And Reference Books:

[1]. Stochastic Processes, R.G Gallager, Cambridge University

Press, 2013.

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[2]. Stochastic Processes, S.M Ross, Wiley India Pvt. Ltd, 2008.
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
[1]. Stochastic Processes from Applications to Theory, P.D Moral and S.
Penev, CRC Press, 2016

[2]. Introduction to Probability and Stochastic Processes with Applications,

B..C. Liliana, A Viswanathan, S. Dharmaraja, Wiley Pvt. Ltd, 2012.
Evaluation Pattern

CIA - 50%

ESE - 50%
MDS241C - CATEGORICAL DATA ANALYSIS
(2021 Batch)

No of Lecture
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:60
Hours/Week:4
Max Marks:100 Credits:4
Course Objectives/Course Description  
Categorical data analysis deals with the study of information
captured through expressions or verbal forms. This course equips the
students with the theory and methods to analyse and categorical
responses.
Learning Outcome
CO1: Describe the categorical response.

CO2: Identify tests for contingency tables.

CO3: Apply regression models for categorical response variables.

CO4: Analyse contingency tables using log-linear models.

Unit-1 Teaching Hours:12
INTRODUCTION  
Categorical response data - Probability distributions for categorical data - Statistical
inference for discrete data
Unit-2 Teaching Hours:12
CONTINGENCY TABLES  
Probability structure for contingency tables - Comparing proportions with 2x2
tables - The odds ratio - Tests for independence - Exact inference - Extension to
three-way and larger tables
Unit-3 Teaching Hours:12
GENERALIZED LINEAR MODELS  
Components of a generalized linear model - GLM for binary and count data -
Statistical inference and model checking - Fitting GLMs

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Unit-4 Teaching Hours:12

LOGISTIC REGRESSION  
Interpreting the logistic regression model - Inference for logistic regression -
Logistic regression with categorical predictors - Multiple logistic regression -
Summarising effects - Building and applying logistic regression models -
Multicategory logit models
Unit-5 Teaching Hours:12
LOGLINEAR MODELS FOR CONTINGENCY
 
TABLES
Loglinear models for two-way and three-way tables - Inference for Loglinear
models - the log-linear-logistic connection - Independence graphs and collapsibility
- Models for matched pairs: Comparing dependent proportions, Logistic regression
for matched pairs - Comparing margins of square contingency tables - symmetry
issues
Text Books And Reference Books:

1. Agresti, A. (2012). Categorical Data Analysis, 3rd Edition. New York: Wiley
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading

 1. Le, C.T. (2009). Applied Categorical Data Analysis and Translational Research,
2nd Ed., John Wiley and Sons.

 2. Agresti, A. (2010). Analysis of ordinal categorical. John Wiley & Sons.

  3. Stokes, M. E., Davis, C. S., & Koch, G. G. (2012). Categorical data analysis
using SAS. SAS Institute.

 4. Agresti, A. (2018). An introduction to categorical data analysis. John Wiley &
Sons.

  5. Bilder, C. R., & Loughin, T. M. (2014). Analysis of categorical data with R.

Chapman and Hall/CRC.
Evaluation Pattern

CIA:50%

ESE:50%
MDS271 - MACHINE LEARNING (2021 Batch)
No of Lecture
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:90
Hours/Week:6
Max Marks:150 Credits:5
Course Objectives/Course Description  
Theobjectiveofthiscourseistoprovideintroductiontotheprinciplesanddesignofmachine
learning algorithms. The course is aimed at providing foundations for conceptual

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aspects of machine learning algorithms along with their applications to solve real
world problems.
Learning Outcome
CO1: Understand the basic principles of machine learning techniques.

CO2:Understandhowmachinelearningproblemsareformulatedandsolved.

CO3:Applymachinelearningalgorithmstosolverealworldproblems.
Unit-1 Teaching Hours:18
INRTODUCTION  
MachineLearning-ExamplesofMachineApplications-LearningAssociations-
Classification- Regression-UnsupervisedLearning-Reinforcement
Learning.Supervised Learning: Learning class from examples- Probably
Approach Correct(PAC) Learning-Noise-Learning Multiple classes. Regression-
Model Selection and Generalization.

IntroductiontoParametricmethods-MaximumLikelihood Estimation:Bernoulli
Density- Multinomial Density-Gaussian Density, Nonparametric Density
Estimation: Histogram Estimator-Kernel Estimator-K-Nearest
NeighbourEstimator.

 Lab Exercise:

1.      Data Exploration using parametric methods

2.      Data Exploration using non-parametric methods

3.      Regression analysis

Unit-2 Teaching Hours:18
DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION  
Dimensionality Reduction: Introduction- Subset Selection-Principal Component
Analysis, Feature Embedding-Factor Analysis-Singular Value Decomposition-
Multidimensional Scaling-Linear Discriminant Analysis- Bayesian Decision
Theory.

Lab Exercise:

1.      Data reduction using Principal ComponentAnalysis

2.      Data reduction using multi-dimensional scaling

Unit-3 Teaching Hours:18
SUPERVISED LEARNING - I  
Linear Discrimination: Introduction- Generalizing the Linear Model-Geometry of
the Linear Discriminant- Pairwise Separation-Gradient Descent-Logistic
Discrimination. 

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Kernel Machines: Introduction- optical separating hyperplane- v-SVM, kernel

tricks- vertical kernel- vertical kernel- defining kernel- multiclass kernel
machines- one-class kernel machines.

Lab Exercise

1.   Lineardiscrimination

2.    Logisticdiscrimination

3.   Classification using kernel machines 

Unit-4 Teaching Hours:18
SUPERVISED LEARNING - II  
Multilayer Perceptron:

Introduction, training a perceptron- learning Boolean functions- multilayer

perceptron- backpropogation algorithm- training procedures.

Combining Multiple Learners

Rationale-Generating diverse learners- Model combination schemes- voting,

Bagging- Boosting- fine tuning an Ensemble.

Lab Exercise

1.  Classification using MLP

2.  Ensemble Learning

 
Unit-5 Teaching Hours:18
UNSUPERVISED LEARNING  
Clustering

Introduction-Mixture Densities, K-Means Clustering- Expectation-Maximization

algorithm- Mixtures of Latent Varaible Models-Supervised Learning after
Clustering-Spectral Clustering- Hierachial Clustering-Clustering- Choosing the
number of Clusters.

Lab Exercise

1.  K means clustering

2.  Hierarchical clustering
Text Books And Reference Books:

[1]. E. Alpaydin, Introduction to Machine Learning, 3rd Edition, MIT Press,

2014.
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Essential Reading / Recommended Reading

1.  C.M.Bishop,PatternRecognitionandMachineLearning,Springer,2016. 

2.    T. Hastie, R. Tibshirani and J. Friedman, The Elements of Statistical

Learning: Data Mining, Inference and Prediction, Springer, 2nd
Edition,2009

3. 
K.P.Murphy,MachineLearning:AProbabilisticPerspective,MITPress,2012. 
Evaluation Pattern

CIA: 50%

ESE: 50%
MDS272A - HADOOP (2021 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:90 No of Lecture Hours/Week:6
Max Marks:150 Credits:5
Course Objectives/Course Description  
The subject is intended to give the knowledge of Big Data evolving in every real-time
applications and how they are manipulated using the emerging technologies. This course
breaks down the walls of complexity in processing Big Data by providing a practical
approach to developing Java applications on top of the Hadoop platform. It describes the
Hadoop architecture and how to work with  the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
and HBase in Ubuntu platform.
Learning Outcome

CO1: Understand the Big Data concepts in real time scenario

CO2: Understand the big data systems and identify the main sources of Big Data
in the real world.
CO3: Demonstrate an ability to use Hadoop framework for processing Big Data
for Analytics. 
CO4: Evaluate the Map reduce approach for different domain problems. 
 

Unit-1 Teaching Hours:15

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.
Apache Hadoop– Moving Data in and out of Hadoop – Understanding inputs
and outputs ofMapReduce - Data Serialization, Problems with traditional
large-scale systems-Requirements for a new approach-Hadoop – Scaling-
Distributed Framework-Hadoop v/s RDBMS-Brief history of Hadoop.
 

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Lab Exercise
 
1. Installing and Configuring Hadoop
Unit-2 Teaching Hours:15
CONFIGURATIONS OF HADOOP  
 

Hadoop Processes (NN, SNN, JT, DN, TT)-Temporary directory – UI-

Common errors when running Hadoop cluster, solutions.

Setting up Hadoop on a local Ubuntu host: Prerequisites, downloading

Hadoop, setting up SSH, configuring the pseudo-distributed mode, HDFS
directory, NameNode, Examples of MapReduce, Using Elastic MapReduce,
Comparison of local versus EMR Hadoop.

Understanding MapReduce:Key/value pairs,TheHadoop Java API for

MapReduce, Writing MapReduce programs, Hadoop-specific data types,
Input/output.

Developing MapReduce Programs: Using languages other than Java with

Hadoop, Analysing a large dataset.

Lab Exercise

1.      1. Word count application in Hadoop.

2.      2. Sorting the data using MapReduce.

3.      3. Finding max and min value in Hadoop.

Unit-3 Teaching Hours:15
ADVANCED MAPREDUCE
 
TECHNIQUES
Simple, advanced, and in-between Joins, Graph algorithms, using language-
independent data structures.
Hadoop configuration properties - Setting up a cluster, Cluster access control,
managing the NameNode, Managing HDFS, MapReduce management,
Scaling.

Lab Exercise: 

1. Implementation of decision tree algorithms using MapReduce.

 2. Implementation of K-means Clustering using MapReduce.

3. Generation of  Frequent Itemset using MapReduce. 

Unit-4 Teaching Hours:15
HADOOP STREAMING  
Hadoop Streaming  -   Streaming  Command  Options - Specifying  a  Java 
Class  as  the  Mapper/Reducer - Packaging Files With Job Submissions -
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Specifying Other Plug-ins for Jobs.

Lab Exercise: 

1.      1.  Count the number of missing and invalid values through joining
two large given datasets.

2.      2.  Using hadoop’s map-reduce, Evaluating Number of Products Sold

in Each Country in the online shopping portal. Dataset is given.

3.  Analyze the sentiment for product reviews, this work proposes
    3. 

a MapReduce technique provided by Apache Hadoop.

Unit-5 Teaching Hours:15
HIVE & PIG  
Architecture, Installation, Configuration, Hive vs RDBMS, Tables, DDL &
DML, Partitioning & Bucketing, Hive Web Interface, Pig, Use case of Pig,
Pig Components, Data Model, Pig Latin.

Lab Exercise

1.  Trend Analysis based on Access Pattern over Web Logs using
Hadoop.
2. Service Rating Prediction by Exploring Social Mobile Users Geographical
Locations.
Unit-6 Teaching Hours:15
Hbase  
RDBMS VsNoSQL, HBasics, Installation, Building an online query
application – Schema design, Loading Data, Online Queries, Successful
service.
Hands On: Single Node Hadoop Cluster Set up in any cloud service
provider- How to create instance.How to connect that Instance Using
putty.InstallingHadoop framework on this instance. Run sample programs
which come with Hadoop framework.

Lab Exercise:

1.      1. Big Data Analytics Framework Based Simulated Performance and

Operational Efficiencies Through Billons of Patient Records in
Hospital System.
Text Books And Reference Books:
[1] Boris lublinsky, Kevin t. Smith, Alexey Yakubovich, Professional
Hadoop Solutions, Wiley, 2015.
[2] Tom White, Hadoop: The Definitive Guide, O’Reilly Media Inc., 2015.
[3] Garry Turkington, Hadoop Beginner's Guide, Packt Publishing, 2013.
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
[1] Pethuru Raj, Anupama Raman, DhivyaNagaraj and Siddhartha Duggirala,
High-Performance Big-Data Analytics: Computing Systems and Approaches,

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Springer, 2015.
[2] Jonathan R. Owens, Jon Lentz and Brian Femiano, Hadoop Real-World
Solutions Cookbook, Packt Publishing, 2013.
[3] Tom White, HADOOP: The definitive Guide, O Reilly, 2012.
Evaluation Pattern

CIA - 50%

ESE - 50%
MDS272B - IMAGE AND VIDEO ANALYTICS (2021
Batch)

No of Lecture
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:90
Hours/Week:6
Max Marks:150 Credits:5
Course Objectives/Course Description  
This course will provide a basic foundation towards digital image
processing and video analysis. This course will also provide brief
introduction about various Object Detection, Recognition,
Segmentation and Compression methods which will help the
students to demonstrate real-time image and video analytics
applications.
Learning Outcome
CO1: Understand the fundamental principles of image and video
analysis

CO2: Apply the image and video analysis approaches to solve

real world problems

Unit-1 Teaching Hours:18

INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL IMAGE
 
AND VIDEO PROCESSING
Digital image representation, Sampling and Quantization, Types
of Images, Basic Relations between Pixels - Neighbors,
Connectivity, Distance Measures between pixels, Linear and Non
Linear Operations, Introduction to Digital Video, Sampled
Video, Video Transmission.

Gray-Level Processing: Image Histogram, Linear and Non-

linear point operations on Images, Arithmetic Operations
between Images, Geometric Image Operations, Image
Thresholding, Region labeling, Binary Image Morphology.

Lab Programs:

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1.    Program to perform Resize, Rotation of binary, Gray-scale

and color images using various methods.

2. Program to implement contrast stretching.

Unit-2 Teaching Hours:18

IMAGE AND VIDEO ENHANCEMENT
 
AND RESTORATION
Spatial domain-Linear and Non-linear Filtering, Introduction to
Fourier Transform and  the frequency Domain– Filtering in
Frequency domain, Homomorphic Filtering, Brief introduction
towards Wavelets, Wavelet based image denoising, A model of
The Image Degradation / Restoration, Noise Models and basic
methods for image restoration. Blotch detection and Removal.

Lab Programs:

3.    Program to implement various image enhancement

techniques using Built-in and user defined functions.

4. Program to implement Non-linear Spatial Filtering using

Built-in and userdefined functions.

Unit-3 Teaching Hours:18

IMAGE AND VIDEO ANALYSIS  
Image Compression: Huffman Coding, Run length Coding,
LZW Coding, Basics of Wavelets based image compression.

Video Compression: Basic Concepts and Techniques of Video

compression, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 Video Standards.

Lab Programs: 

5.     Program to implement homomorphic Filtering

6.     Extraction of frames from videos and analyzing frames

Unit-4 Teaching Hours:18

FEATURE DETECTION AND
 
DESCRIPTION

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Introduction to feature detectors, descriptors, matching and

tracking, Basic edge detectors – canny, sobel, prewitt etc., Image
Segmentation - Region Based Segmentation – Region Growing
and Region Splitting and Merging, Thresholding – Basic global
thresholding, optimum global thresholding using Otsu’s Method.

Lab Programs:

7.        Implement multi-resolution image decomposition and

reconstruction using wavelet. 

8.     Implement image compression using wavelets.

Unit-5 Teaching Hours:18

OBJECT DETECTION AND
 
RECOGNITION
Descriptors: Boundary descriptors - Fourier descriptors -
Regional descriptors - Topological descriptors - moment
invariants

Object detection and recognition in image and video: Minimum

distance classifier, K-NN classifier and Bayes, Applications in
image and video analysis, object tracking in videos.

 Lab Programs:

9.   Extracting feature descriptors from the image dataset.

10.  Implement image classification using extracted relevant

features.

Text Books And Reference Books:

[1] Rafael C. Gonzalez and Richard E. Woods, Digital Image

Processing, 4th Edition, Pearson Education, 2018.

 [2] Alan Bovik, Handbook of Image and Video Processing, Second

Edition, Academic Press, 2005.

 
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading

[1] Anil K Jain, Fundamentals of Digital Image Processing, PHI,

2011.

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[2] RichardSzeliski,ComputerVision–
AlgorithmsandApplications,Springer,2011.

[3] Oge Marques, Practical Image and Video Processing Using

MatLab, Wiley, 2011.

[4] John W. Woods, Multidimensional Signal, Image, Video

Processing and Coding, Academic Press, 2006.
Evaluation Pattern
CIA: 50%

ESE: 50%

MDS272C - INTERNET OF THINGS (2021 Batch)

No of Lecture
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:90
Hours/Week:6
Max Marks:150 Credits:5
Course Objectives/Course Description  
The explosive growth of the “Internet of
Things” is changing our world and the rapid growth of IoT
components is allowing people to innovate new designs
and products at home. Wireless Sensor Networks form the
basis of the Internet of Things. To latch on to the
applications in the field of IoT of the recent times, this
course provides a deeper understanding of the underlying
concepts of IoT and Wireless Sensor Networks.
Learning Outcome

CO1: Understand the concepts of IoT and IoT enabling

technologies
CO2: Gain knowledge on IoT programming and able to
develop IoT applications
CO3: Identify different issues in wireless ad hoc and sensor
networks
CO4: Develop an understanding of sensor network
architectures from a design and performance perspective
CO5: Understand the layered approach in sensor networks and
WSN protocols

Unit-1 Teaching Hours:18

Lab Exercises  
1.   1. Introduction to ICs and Sensors. A basic program can be shown which
makes use of logic gates IC s for understanding the basics of sensor nodes.
Different sensors which find application in IoT projects can be shown,their
working explained.

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2.    2.Introduction to Arduino/Raspberry Pi. Sample sketches or code can be

selected from theArduinosoftwareandexecuted,making use of different sensors.
Unit-1 Teaching Hours:18
Introduction to IOT  
Introduction to IoT - Definition and Characteristics, Physical Design
Things- Protocols, Logical Design- Functional Blocks,
Communication Models- Communication APIs-
Introductiontomeasurethephysicalquantities,IoTEnablingTechnologies-
WirelessSensor Networks, Cloud Computing Big Data Analytics,
Communication Protocols- Embedded System- IoT Levels and
DeploymentTemplates.
Unit-2 Teaching Hours:18
IOT Programming  
Introduction to Smart Systems using IoT - IoT Design Methodology-
IoT Boards (Raspberry Pi,Arduino)andIDE-
CaseStudy:WeatherMonitoring-LogicalDesignusingPython, Data types
& Data Structures- Control Flow, Functions- Modules- Packages, File
Handling - Date/Time Operations, Classes- Python Packages of
Interest forIoT.
Unit-2 Teaching Hours:18
Lab Exercises  
3. Use of sensors to detect the temperature/humidity in a room and having
appropriate  actions performed such as changing the LED color and turning the
speaker on as an alarm and using serial monitor to see these values.

4. A basic parking system making use of multiple IR sensors, Ultrasonic Sensors,

LED bulbs, Speakers etc, to identify if a slot is empty or full and using the LED
and speakers to alert the user about the availability.
Unit-3 Teaching Hours:18
IOT Applications  
Home Automation – Smart Cities- Environment, Energy- Retail,
Logistics- Agriculture, Industry- Health and Lifestyle- IoT and M2M.
Unit-3 Teaching Hours:18
Lab Exercises  
5. An Agricultural System (Greenhouse System) that makes use of sensors
like humidity, temperature etc, to identify the current situation of the agricultural
area and taking necessary measures such as activating the water spraying motor,
the alarm system (to indicate if there is excess heat) etc.

6. Create a basic sound system by making use of knobs, speakers, LED bulbs
etc., to mimic the sound produced by a race car, ambulance, siren etc.

7. A basic obstacle avoiding robot by making use of Ultrasonic sensors, dc

motors, and the chassis kit for robotic car.
Unit-4 Teaching Hours:18

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Network of wireless sensor nodes  

SensingandSensors-
WirelessSensorNetworks,ChallengesandConstraints-Applications:
Structural Health Monitoring, Traffic Control, Health Care - Node
Architecture - Operating system.
Unit-4 Teaching Hours:18
Lab Exercise  
8. Making use of GSM for communication in the obstacle avoiding robot. Using
sensors such as flame sensors, PIR human motion sensor, IR sensor, LED bulbs
etc for better inputs regarding the environment.

9. A garbage level indicator which makes use of IR proximity sensors, WiFi

modules etc to detect the rising amount of garbage and sending data to a server
and channelling that data to the owner of the module. Can be introduced as the
application IoT. If  needed, IoT introduction can be done much earlier and the
sharing of data can be shown, for better functionality of later projects.

10. Elderly care: We want to monitor very senior citizens whether they had a
sudden fall. If a very senior citizen falls suddenly while walking, due to stroke or
slippery ground  etc, a notification should be sent out so that he/she can get
immediate medical attention. shown, for better functionality of later projects. 
Unit-5 Teaching Hours:18
MAC, Routing and Transport Protocols in
 
WSN
Introduction – Fundamentals of MAC Protocols – MAC protocols for
WSN – Sensor MAC CaseStudy–RoutingChallengesandDesignIssues–
RoutingStrategies–TransportControl Protocols–
TransportProtocolDesignIssues–PerformanceofTransportProtocols
Unit-5 Teaching Hours:18
Lab Exercise  
11. Smart street lights: The street lights should increase or decrease their
intensity based on the actual requirements of the amount of light needed at that
time of the day. This will save a lot of energy for the municipal corporation.

12. Implement 3-bit Binary Counter using 3 LED Module. 

a. Glow RED if the Binary bit is '0'. Glow GREEN if the binary bit is '1'

i. For example:

ii. 000 = 0 (all LED should be RED)

iii. 001 = 1 (Two LEDs Should be RED , and one LED should be GREEN)

iv. If Button is pressed in between, Reset the counter and Re-start from 0.

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Theft prevention system for night: When the room is dark and Board is moved or
tilted (say around 90 degree), it should alarm.
Text Books And Reference Books:
[1]    Arshdeep Bahgaand, Vijay Madisetti, Internet of Things: Hands-
on Approach, Hyderabad University Press, 2015.
[2]    Kazem Sohraby, Daniel Minoli and TaiebZnati, Wireless Sensor
Networks: Technology. Protocols and Application, Wiley Publications,
2010.
[3]        Waltenegus Dargie and Christian Poellabauer, Fundamentals of
Wireless Sensor Networks: Theory and Practice, A John Wiley and
Sons Ltd., 2010.
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
[1]      Edgar Callaway, Wireless Sensor Networks: Architecture and
Protocols, Auerbach Publications, 2003.
[2]   Michael Miller, The Internet of Things, Pearson Education, 2015.
[3]      Holger Karl and Andreas Willig, Protocols and Architectures for
Wireless Sensor Networks, John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2005.
[4]    Erdal Çayırcı and Chunming
Rong,  SecurityinWirelessAdHocandSensorNetworks,John Wiley and
Sons, 2009.
[5]   Carlos De MoraisCordeiro and Dharma Prakash Agrawal, Ad Hoc
and Sensor Networks: Theory and Applications, World Scientific
Publishing, 2011.

[6]   Adrian Perrig and J.D.Tygar, Secure Broadcast Communication: In

Wired and Wireless Networks, Springer, 2006.
Evaluation Pattern

CIA - 50%

ESE - 50%
MDS273 - PROGRAMMING FOR DATA SCIENCE IN R
(2021 Batch)

No of Lecture
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:90
Hours/Week:6
Max Marks:100 Credits:4
Course Objectives/Course Description  
This lab is designed to introduce implementation of practical machine learning algorithms
using R programming language. The lab will extensively use datasets from real life
situations.
Learning Outcome
CO1: Demonstrate to use R in any OS (Windows / Mac / Linux).

CO2: Analyse the use of basic functions of R Package.

CO3: Demonstrate exploratory data analysis (EDA) for a given data set.

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CO4: Create and edit visualizations with R

CO5: Implement and assess relevance and effectiveness of machine learning algorithms
for a given dataset.

Unit-1 Teaching Hours:18

R INSTALLTION, SETUP AND LINEAR
 
REGRESSION
Download and install R – R IDE environments – Why R – Getting started
with R – Vectors and Data Frames – Loading Data Frames – Data
analysis with summary statistics and scatter plots – Summary tables
-  Working with Script Files

  Linear Regression – Introduction – Regression model for one variable

regression – Selecting best model – Error measures SSE, SST, RMSE,
R2  – Interpreting R2  – Multiple linear regression – Lasso and ridge
regression – Correlation – Recitation – A minimum of   3 data sets for
practice
Unit-2 Teaching Hours:18
LOGISTIC REGRESSION  
Logistic Regression – The Logit – Confusion matrix – sensitivity,
specificity – ROC curve – Threshold selection with ROC curve – Making
predictions – Area under the ROC curve (AUC)    - Recitation – A
minimum of 3 data sets for practice
Unit-3 Teaching Hours:18
DECISION TREES  
Approaches to missing data – Data imputation – Multiple imputation –
Classification and Regression Tress (CART) – CART with Cross Validation –
Predictions from CART – ROC curve for CART – Random Forests –
Building many trees – Parameter selection – K-fold Cross Validation –
Recitation – A minimum of 3 data sets for practice
Unit-4 Teaching Hours:18
TEXT ANALYTICS AND NLP  

Using text as data – Text analytics – Natural language processing – Bag

of words – Stemming – word clouds – Recitation – min 3 data sets for
practice – Time series analysis – Clustering – k-mean clustering –
Random forest with clustering – Understanding cluster patterns – Impact
of clustering – Heatmaps – Recitation – min 3 data sets for practice

Unit-5 Teaching Hours:18

ENSEMBLE MODELLING  
Support Vector Machines – Gradient Boosting – Naive Bayes - Bayesian
GLM – GLMNET - Ensemble modeling – Experimenting with all of the
above approaches (Units 1-5) with and without data imputation and assessing
predictive accuracy – Recitation – min 3 data sets for practice PROJECT – A
concluding project work carried out individually for a common data set

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Text Books And Reference Books:

[1].  Statistics : An Introduction Using R, Michael J. Crawley, WILEY,
Second Edition, 2015.
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
[1].Hands-on programming with R, Garrett Grolemund, O’Reilley,
1st Edition, 2014

[2]. R for everyone, Jared Lander, Pearson, 1st Edition, 2014

Evaluation Pattern
CIA - 50%

ESE - 50%
MDS331 - NEURAL NETWORKS AND DEEP
LEARNING (2020 Batch)
No of Lecture
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:60
Hours/Week:4
Max Marks:100 Credits:4
Course Objectives/Course Description  
The main aim of this course is to provide fundamental knowledge of
neural networks and deep learning. On successful completion of the
course, students will acquire fundamental knowledge of neural
networks and deep learning, such as Basics of neural networks,
shallow neural networks, deep neural networks, forward & backward
propagation process and build various research projects
Learning Outcome
CO1: Understand the major technology trends in neural networks
and deep learning

CO2: Build, train and apply neural networks and fully connected
deep neural networks

CO3: Implement efficient (vectorized) neural networks for real time

application
Unit-1 Teaching Hours:12
INTRODUCTION TO ARTIFICIAL
 
NEURAL NETWORKS
Neural Networks-Application Scope of Neural Networks-
Fundamental Concept of ANN: The Artificial Neural Network-
Biological Neural Network-Comparison between Biological Neuron
and Artificial Neuron-Evolution of Neural Network. Basic models of
ANN-Learning Methods-Activation Functions-Importance
Terminologies of ANN. 
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Unit-2 Teaching Hours:12

SUPERVISED LEARNING NETWORK  
Shallow neural networks- Perceptron Networks-Theory-Perceptron
Learning RuleArchitecture-Flowchart for training Process-
Perceptron Training Algorithm for Single and Multiple Output
Classes.

Back Propagation Network- Theory-Architecture-Flowchart for

training process-Training Algorithm-Learning Factors for Back-
Propagation Network.

Radial Basis Function Network RBFN: Theory, Architecture,

Flowchart and Algorithm.
Unit-3 Teaching Hours:12
CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK  
Introduction - Components of CNN Architecture - Rectified Linear
Unit (ReLU) Layer - Exponential Linear Unit (ELU, or SELU) -
Unique Properties of CNN -Architectures of CNN -Applications of
CNN. 
Unit-4 Teaching Hours:12
RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORK  
Introduction- The Architecture of Recurrent Neural Network- The
Challenges of Training Recurrent Networks- Echo-State Networks-
Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) - Applications of RNN.
Unit-5 Teaching Hours:12
AUTO ENCODER AND RESTRICTED
 
BOLTZMANN MACHINE
Introduction - Features of Auto encoder Types of Autoencoder
Restricted Boltzmann Machine- Boltzmann Machine - RBM
Architecture -Example - Types of RBM.
Text Books And Reference Books:

1. S.N.Sivanandam, S. N. Deepa, Principles of Soft Computing,

Wiley-India, 3rd Edition, 2018.

2. Dr. S Lovelyn Rose, Dr. L Ashok Kumar, Dr. D Karthika Renuka,

Deep Learning Using Python, Wiley-India, 1st Edition, 2019. 
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading

1. Charu C. Aggarwal, Neural Networks and Deep Learning,

Springer, September 2018.

2. Francois Chollet, Deep Learning with Python, Manning

Publications; 1st edition, 2017

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3. John D. Kelleher, Deep Learning (MIT Press Essential

Knowledge series), The MIT Press, 2019. 
Evaluation Pattern

CIA: 50% 

ESE: 50%
MDS331L - NEURAL NETWORKS AND DEEP
LEARNING (2020 Batch)
No of Lecture
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:60
Hours/Week:4
Max Marks:100 Credits:4
Course Objectives/Course Description  
The main aim of this course is to provide fundamental knowledge of neural
networks and deep learning. On successful completion of the course, students will
acquire fundamental knowledge of neural networks and deep learning, such as
Basics of neural networks, shallow neural networks, deep neural networks, forward
& backward propagation process and build various research projects
Learning Outcome
CO1: Understand the major technology trends in neural networks and deep learning

CO2: Build, train and apply neural networks and fully connected deep neural
networks

CO3: Implement efficient (vectorized) neural networks for real time application
Unit-1 Teaching Hours:12
INTRODUCTION TO ARTIFICIAL
 
NEURAL NETWORKS
Neural Networks-Application Scope of Neural Networks- Fundamental Concept of
ANN: The Artificial Neural Network-Biological Neural Network-Comparison
between Biological Neuron and Artificial Neuron-Evolution of Neural Network.
Basic models of ANN-Learning Methods-Activation Functions-Importance
Terminologies of ANN. 
Unit-2 Teaching Hours:12
SUPERVISED LEARNING NETWORK  
Shallow neural networks- Perceptron Networks-Theory-Perceptron Learning
RuleArchitecture-Flowchart for training Process-Perceptron Training Algorithm for
Single and Multiple Output Classes.

Back Propagation Network- Theory-Architecture-Flowchart for training process-

Training Algorithm-Learning Factors for Back-Propagation Network.

Radial Basis Function Network RBFN: Theory, Architecture, Flowchart and

Algorithm.
Unit-3 Teaching Hours:12
CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK  
Introduction - Components of CNN Architecture - Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU)
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Layer - Exponential Linear Unit (ELU, or SELU) - Unique Properties of CNN -

Architectures of CNN -Applications of CNN. 
Unit-4 Teaching Hours:12
RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORK  
Introduction- The Architecture of Recurrent Neural Network- The Challenges of
Training Recurrent Networks- Echo-State Networks- Long Short-Term Memory
(LSTM) - Applications of RNN.
Unit-5 Teaching Hours:12
AUTO ENCODER AND RESTRICTED
 
BOLTZMANN MACHINE
Introduction - Features of Auto encoder Types of Autoencoder Restricted Boltzmann
Machine- Boltzmann Machine - RBM Architecture -Example - Types of RBM.
Text Books And Reference Books:
1. S.N.Sivanandam, S. N. Deepa, Principles of Soft Computing, Wiley-India, 3rd
Edition, 2018.

2. Dr. S Lovelyn Rose, Dr. L Ashok Kumar, Dr. D Karthika Renuka, Deep
Learning Using Python, Wiley-India, 1st Edition, 2019. 
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
1. Charu C. Aggarwal, Neural Networks and Deep Learning, Springer, September
2018.

2. Francois Chollet, Deep Learning with Python, Manning Publications; 1st edition,
2017

3. John D. Kelleher, Deep Learning (MIT Press Essential Knowledge series), The
MIT Press, 2019. 
Evaluation Pattern

CIA- 50%

ESE-50%
MDS341A - TIME SERIES ANALYSIS AND
FORECASTING TECHNIQUES (2020 Batch)
No of Lecture
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:60
Hours/Week:4
Max Marks:100 Credits:4
Course Objectives/Course Description  
This course covers applied statistical methods pertaining to time
series and forecasting techniques. Moving average models like
simple, weighted and exponential are dealt with. Stationary time
series models and non-stationary time series models like AR, MA,
ARMA and ARIMA are introduced to analyse time series data.
Learning Outcome
CO1: Ability to approach and analyze univariate time series
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CO2: Able to differentiate between various time series models like

AR, MA, ARMA and ARIMA models

CO3: Evaluate stationary and non-stationary time series models

CO4: Able to forecast future observations of the time series.

Unit-1 Teaching Hours:12
INTRODUCTION TO TIME SERIES AND
 
STOCHASTIC PROCESS
Introduction to time series and stochastic process, graphical
representation, components and classical decomposition of time
series data.Auto-covariance and auto-correlation functions,
Exploratory time series analysis, Test for trend and seasonality,
Smoothing techniques such as Exponential and moving average
smoothing, Holt- Winter smoothing, Forecasting based on
smoothing.
Unit-2 Teaching Hours:12
STATIONARY TIME SERIES MODELS  
Wold representation of linear stationary processes, Study of linear
time series models: Autoregressive, Moving Average and
Autoregressive Moving average models and their statistical
properties like ACF and PACF function.
Unit-3 Teaching Hours:12
ESTIMATION OF ARMA MODELS  
Estimation of ARMA models: Yule- Walker estimation of AR
Processes, Maximum likelihood and least squares estimation for
ARMA Processes, Residual analysis and diagnostic checking.
Unit-4 Teaching Hours:12
NON-STATIONARY TIME SERIES
 
MODELS
Concept of non-stationarity, general unit root tests for testing non-
stationarity; basic formulation of the ARIMA Model and their
statistical properties-ACF and PACF; forecasting using ARIMA
models
Unit-5 Teaching Hours:12
STATE SPACE MODELS  
Filtering, smoothing and forecasting using state space models,
Kalman smoother, Maximum likelihood estimation, Missing data
modifications
Text Books And Reference Books:

 1. George E. P. Box, G.M. Jenkins, G.C. Reinsel and G. M. Ljung,

Time Series analysis Forecasting and Control, 5th Edition, John
Wiley & Sons, Inc., New Jersey, 2016.
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2.  Montgomery D.C, Jennigs C. L and Kulachi M,Introduction to

Time Series analysis  and Forecasting, 2nd Edition,John Wiley &
Sons, Inc., New Jersey, 2016.
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
1.      Anderson T.W,Statistical Analysis of Time Series,
John Wiley& Sons, Inc., New Jersey, 1971. 
2.          Shumway R.H and Stoffer D.S, Time Series
Analysis and its Applications with R Examples,
Springer, 2011. 
3.          P. J. Brockwell and R. A. Davis, Times series:
Theory and Methods, 2nd Edition, Springer-Verlag,
2009. 
4.          S.C. Gupta and V.K. Kapoor, Fundamentals of
Applied Statistics, 4th Edition, Sultan Chand and
Sons, 2008.
Evaluation Pattern

CIA: 50%

ESE: 50%

 
MDS341AL - TIME SERIES ANALYSIS AND
FORECASTING TECHNIQUES (2020 Batch)
No of Lecture
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:60
Hours/Week:4
Max Marks:100 Credits:4
Course Objectives/Course Description  
This course covers applied statistical methods pertaining to time series and
forecasting techniques. Moving average models like simple, weighted and
exponential are dealt with. Stationary time series models and non-stationary
time series models like AR, MA, ARMA and ARIMA are introduced to
analyse time series data.

 
Learning Outcome
CO1: Ability to approach and analyze univariate time series
CO2: Able to differentiate between various time series
models like AR, MA, ARMA and ARIMA models

CO3: Evaluate stationary and non-stationary time series

models
         CO4: Able to forecast future observations of the time series.
Unit-1 Teaching Hours:15
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Introduction To Time Series And  

Stochastic Process
Introduction to time series and stochastic process, graphical representation,
components and classical decomposition of time series data.Auto-covariance
and auto-correlation functions, Exploratory time series analysis, Test for
trend and seasonality, Smoothing techniques such as Exponential and moving
average smoothing, Holt- Winter smoothing, Forecasting based on smoothing
Unit-2 Teaching Hours:15
Stationary time series models  
Wold representation of linear stationary processes, Study of linear time series
models: Autoregressive, Moving Average and Autoregressive Moving
average models and their statistical properties like ACF and PACF function.

 
Unit-3 Teaching Hours:15
Estimation of ARMA models  
 

Estimation of ARMA models: Yule- Walker estimation of AR Processes,

Maximum likelihood and least squares estimation for ARMA Processes,
Residual analysis and diagnostic checking.

 
Unit-4 Teaching Hours:15
Non-Stationary Time Series Models  
Concept of non-stationarity, general unit root tests for testing non-
stationarity; basic formulation of the ARIMA Model and their statistical
properties-ACF and PACF; forecasting using ARIMA models

 
Text Books And Reference Books:
 

T1 George E. P. Box, G.M. Jenkins, G.C. Reinsel and

G. M. Ljung, Time Series analysis Forecasting and
Control, 5th Edition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New
Jersey,2016.

T2Montgomery D.C, Jennigs C. L and Kulachi M,

Introduction to Time Series analysis and Forecasting,
2nd Edition,John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New
Jersey,2016.
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
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1.            Anderson T.W,Statistical Analysis of Time Series, John

Wiley& Sons, Inc., New Jersey,1971.
2.       Shumway R.H and Stoffer D.S, Time Series Analysis and
its Applications with R Examples, Springer,2011.
3.       P. J. Brockwell and R. A. Davis, Times series: Theory and
Methods, 2nd Edition, Springer-Verlag,2009.
4.            S.C. Gupta and V.K. Kapoor, Fundamentals of Applied
Statistics, 4th Edition, Sultan Chand and Sons,2008.
Evaluation Pattern
CIA: 50%
ESE: 50%
MDS341B - BAYESIAN INFERENCE (2020 Batch)
No of Lecture
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:60
Hours/Week:4
Max Marks:100 Credits:4
Course Objectives/Course Description  
To equip the students with the knowledge of conceptual,
computational, and practical methods of Bayesian data analysis.
Learning Outcome
CO1: Understand Bayesian models and their specific model
assumptions.

CO2: Identify suitable informative and non-informative prior

distributions to derive posterior distributions

CO3: Apply computer intensive methods like MCMC for

approximating the posterior distribution.

CO4: Analyse the results obtained by Bayesian methods.

Unit-1 Teaching Hours:12
INTRODUCTION  
Basics on minimaxity: subjective and frequents probability, Bayesian
inference, Bayesian estimation , prior distributions, posterior
distribution, loss function, principle of minimum expected posterior
loss, quadratic and other common loss functions, Advantages of
being a Bayesian HPD confidence intervals, testing, credible
intervals, prediction of a future observation.
Unit-2 Teaching Hours:12
BAYESIAN ANALYSIS WITH PRIOR
 
INFORMATION
Robustness and sensitivity, classes of priors, conjugate class,
neighbourhood class, density ratio class different methods of
objective priors: Jeffrey’s prior, probability matching prior,

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conjugate priors and mixtures, posterior robustness: measures and

techniques
Unit-3 Teaching Hours:12
MULTIPARAMETER AND
 
MULTIVARIABLE MODELS
Basics of decision theory, multi-parameter models, Multivariate
models, linear regression, asymptotic approximation to posterior
distributions
Unit-4 Teaching Hours:12
MODEL SELECTION AND
 
HYPOTHESIS TESTING
Selection criteria and testing of hypothesis based on objective
probabilities and Bayes’ factors, large sample methods: limit of
posterior distribution, consistency of posterior distribution,
asymptotic normality of posterior distribution.
Unit-5 Teaching Hours:12
BAYESIAN COMPUTATIONS  
Analytic approximation, E- M Algorithm, Monte Carlo sampling,
Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods, Metropolis – Hastings
Algorithm, Gibbs sampling, examples, convergence issues
Text Books And Reference Books:

1. Albert Jim (2009) Bayesian Computation with R, second edition,

Springer, New York

2. Bolstad W. M. and Curran, J.M. (2016) Introduction to Bayesian

Statistics 3rd Ed. Wiley, New York

3. Christensen R. Johnson, W. Branscum A. and Hanson T.E. (2011)

Bayesian Ideas and data analysis : A introduction for scientist and
Statisticians, Chapman and Hall, London 

4. A. Gelman, J.B. Carlin, H.S. Stern and D.B. Rubin (2004).

Bayesian Data Analysis, 2nd Ed. Chapman & Hall
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading

  1.  Congdon P. (2006) Bayesian Statistical Modeling, Wiley, New

York.

2.  Ghosh, J.K. Delampady M. and T. Samantha (2006). An

Introduction to Bayesian Analysis: Theory and Methods, Springer,
New York.

3.  Lee P.M. (2012) Bayesian Statistics: An Introduction-4th Ed.

Hodder Arnold, New York.

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4.  Rao C.R. Day D. (2006) Bayesian Thinking, Modeling and

Computation, Handbook of Statistics, Vol.25.
Evaluation Pattern

CIA: 50%

ESE: 50%
MDS341C - ECONOMETRICS (2020 Batch)
No of Lecture
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:60
Hours/Week:4
Max Marks:100 Credits:4
Course Objectives/Course Description  
The course is designed to impart the learning of principles of
econometric methods and tools. This is expected to improve
student’s ability to understand of econometrics in the study of
economics and finance. The learning objective of the course is to
provide students to get the basic knowledge and skills of
econometric analysis, so that they should be able to apply it to the
investigation of economic relationships and processes, and also
understand the econometric methods, approaches, ideas, results and
conclusions met in the majority of economic books and articles.
Introduce the students to the traditional econometric methods
developed mostly for the work with cross-sections data.
Learning Outcome
CO1: Demonstrate Simple and multiple Econometric models

CO2: Interpret the models adequacy through various methods

CO3: Demonstrate simultaneous Linear Equations model.

Unit-1 Teaching Hours:15
INTRODUCTION  
Introduction to Econometrics- Meaning and Scope – Methodology of
Econometrics – Nature and Sources of Data for Econometric
analysis – Types of Econometrics
Unit-2 Teaching Hours:15
CORRELATION  
Aitken’s Generalised Least Squares(GLS) Estimator,
Heteroscedasticity, Auto-correlation, Multicollinearity, Auto-
Correlation, Test of Auto-correlation, Multicollinearity, Tools for
Handling Multicollinearity
Unit-3 Teaching Hours:15
REGRESSION  

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Linear Regression with Stochastic Regressors, Errors in Variable

Models and Instrumental Variable Estimation, Independent
Stochastic linear Regression, Auto regression, Linear regression, Lag
Models
Unit-4 Teaching Hours:15
LINEAR EQUATIONS MODEL  
Simultaneous Linear Equations Model : Structure of Linear
Equations Model, Identification Problem, Rank and Order
Conditions, Single Equation and Simultaneous Equations, Methods
of Estimation- Indirect Least squares, Least Variance Ratio and Two-
Stage Least Square
Text Books And Reference Books:

1.  Johnston, J. (1997). Econometric Methods, Fourth Edition,

McGraw Hill

2.  Gujarathi, D., and Porter, D. (2008). Basic Econometrics, Fifth

Edition, McGraw-Hill
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading

1.   Intriligator, M. D. (1980). Econometric Models-Techniques and

Applications, Prentice Hall.

2.  Theil, H. (1971). Principles of Econometrics, John Wiley.

3.  Walters, A. (1970). An Introduction to Econometrics, McMillan

and Co.
Evaluation Pattern

CIA : 50%

ESE : 50%
MDS341D - BIO-STATISTICS (2020 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for No of Lecture
Semester:60 Hours/Week:4
Max Marks:100 Credits:4
Course Objectives/Course
 
Description
This course provides an understanding of various statistical methods
in describing and analyzing biological data. Students will be
equipped with an idea about the applications of statistical hypothesis
testing, related concepts and interpretation in biological data.
Learning Outcome

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CO1: Demonstrate the understanding of basic concepts of

biostatistics and the process involved in the scientific method of
research.

CO2: Identify how the data can be appropriately organized and

displayed.

CO3: Interpret the measures of central tendency and measures of

dispersion.

CO4: Interpret the data based on the discrete and continuous

probability distributions.

CO5: Apply parametric and non-parametric methods of statistical

data analysis. 
Unit-1 Teaching Hours:12
INTRODUCTION TO BIOSTATISTICS  
Presentation of data - graphical and numerical representations of
data - Types of variables, measures of location - dispersion and
correlation - inferential statistics - probability and distributions -
Binomial, Poisson, Negative Binomial, Hyper geometric and normal
distribution.
Unit-2 Teaching Hours:12
PARAMETRIC AND NON -
 
PARAMETRIC METHODS
Parametric methods - one sample t-test - independent sample t-test -
paired sample t-test - one-way analysis of variance - two-way
analysis of variance - analysis of covariance - repeated measures of
analysis of variance - Pearson correlation coefficient - Non-
parametric methods: Chi-square test of independence and goodness
of fit - Mann Whitney U test - Wilcoxon signed-rank test - Kruskal
Wallis test - Friedman’s test - Spearman’s correlation test.
Unit-3 Teaching Hours:12
GENERALIZED LINEAR MODELS  
Review of simple and multiple linear regression - introduction to
generalized linear models - parameter estimation of generalized
linear models - models with different link functions - binary
(logistic) regression - estimation and model fitting - Poisson
regression for count data - mixed effect models and hierarchical
models with practical examples.
Unit-4 Teaching Hours:12
EPIDEMIOLOGY  
Introduction to epidemiology, measures of epidemiology,
observational study designs: case report, case series correlational
studies, cross-sectional studies, retrospective and prospective
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studies, analytical epidemiological studies-case control study and

cohort study, odds ratio, relative risk, the bias in epidemiological
studies.
Unit-5 Teaching Hours:12
DEMOGRAPHY  
Introduction to demography, mortality and life tables, infant
mortality rate, standardized death rates, life tables, fertility, crude
and specific rates, migration-definition and concepts population
growth, measurement of population growth-arithmetic, geometric
and exponential, population projection and estimation, different
methods of population projection, logistic curve, urban population
growth, components of urban population growth.
Text Books And Reference Books:

1. Marcello Pagano and Kimberlee Gauvreau (2018), Principles of

Biostatistics, 2nd Edition, Chapman and Hall/CRC press

2. David Moore S. and George McCabe P., (2017) Introduction to

practice of statistics, 9th Edition, W. H. Freeman.

3. Sundar Rao and Richard J., (2012) Introduction to Biostatistics

and research methods, PHI Learning Private limited, New Delhi
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading

1. Abhaya Indrayan and Rajeev Kumar M., (2018) Medical

Biostatistics, 4th Edition, Chapman and Hall/CRC Press.

2. Gordis Leon (2018), Epidemiology, 6th Edition, Elsevier,

Philadelphia

3. Ram, F. and Pathak K. B., (2016): Techniques of Demographic

Analysis, Himalaya Publishing house, Bombay.

4. Park K., (2019), Park's Text Book of Preventive and Social

Medicine, Banarsidas Bhanot, Jabalpur. 
Evaluation Pattern

CIA:50%

ESE:50%
MDS371 - CLOUD ANALYTICS (2020 Batch)
No of Lecture
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:90
Hours/Week:6
Max Marks:150 Credits:5
Course Objectives/Course Description  

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The objective of this course is to explore the basics of cloud

analytics and the major cloud solutions. Students will learn how to
analyze extremely large data sets, and to create visual
representations of that data. Also aim to provide students with
hands-on experience working with data at scale.
Learning Outcome
  CO1:  Interpret the deployment and service models of cloud
applications.

 CO2: Describe big data analytical concepts.

CO3: Ingest, store, and secure data.

CO4: Process and Visualize structured and unstructured data.

Unit-1 Teaching Hours:18
INTRODUCTION  
Introduction to cloud computing - Major benefits of cloud computing - Cloud computing
deployment models - Private cloud - Public cloud - Hybrid cloud - Types of cloud
computing services -Infrastructure as a Service – PaaS – SaaS - Emerging cloud
technologies and services - Different ways to secure the cloud - Risks and challenges
with the cloud - What is cloud analytics? Parameters before adopting cloud strategy -
Technologies utilized by cloud computing

1.Creating Virtual Machines using Hypervisors

2.IaaS: Compute service - Creating and running Virtual Machines

Unit-2 Teaching Hours:18
CLOUD ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES  
Virtualization - Load Balancing - Scalability & Elasticity – Deployment –Replication –
Monitoring - Software Defined Networking - Network Function Virtualization –
MapReduce - Identity and Access Management - Service Level Agreements - Billing

1.      Storage as a Service: Ingesting & Querying data into cloud

2.      Database as a Service: Building DB Server

Unit-3 Teaching Hours:18
BASIC CLOUD SERVICES & PLATFORMS  
Compute Services

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud - Google Compute Engine -     Windows     Azure    
Virtual Machines

Storage Services

Amazon Simple Storage Service - Google Cloud Storage - Windows Azure Storage

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Database Services

Amazon Relational Data Store - Amazon DynamoDB - Google Cloud SQL - Google
Cloud Datastore - Windows Azure SQL Database - Windows Azure Table Service

1.      PaaS: Working with GoogleAppEngine

Unit-4 Teaching Hours:18
DATA INGESTION AND STORING  
Cloud Dataflow - The Dataflow programming model - Cloud Pub/Sub - Cloud storage - Cloud SQL - Cloud
BigTable - Cloud Spanner - Cloud Datastore - Persistent disks 

1. Database as a Service: Building DB Server

2. Transforming data
Unit-4 Teaching Hours:18
PROCESSING AND VISUALIZING  
 Google BigQuery - Cloud Dataproc - Google Cloud Datalab - Google Data Studio

 1.      Visualize structured data and unstructureddata

Unit-5 Teaching Hours:18
MACHINE LEARNING, DEEP LEARNING AND AI  
Services on Artificial intelligence - Machine learning - Cloud Natural Language API –
TensorFlow - Cloud Speech API - Cloud Translation API - Cloud Vision API - Cloud
Video Intelligence – Dialogflow – AutoML

1. Load and query data in a data warehouse

2. Setting up and executing a data pipeline job to load data into cloud
Text Books And Reference Books:

1.  Sanket Thodge, Cloud Analytics with Google Cloud Platform, Packt Publishing, 2018.

2.  Arshdeep Bahga and Vijay Madisetti, Cloud computing - A Hands-On Approach,
Create Space Independent Publishing Platform, 2014.
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading

1.          Deven Shah, Kailash Jayaswal, Donald J. Houde, Jagannath Kallakurchi, Cloud
Computing - Black Book, Wiley, 2014.

2.          Thomas Erl, Ricardo Puttini, Zaigham Mahmood, Cloud Computing: Concepts,
Technology & Architecture, Prentice Hall, 2014.
Evaluation Pattern

CIA: 50%

ESE: 50%

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MDS371L - CLOUD ANALYTICS (2020 Batch)

Total Teaching Hours for Semester:90 No of Lecture Hours/Week:6
Max Marks:150 Credits:5
Course Objectives/Course Description  
The objective of this course is to explore the basics of cloud analytics and the major
cloud solutions. Students will learn how to analyze extremely large data sets, and to
create visual representations of that data. Also aim to provide students with hands-on
experience working with data at scale.
Learning Outcome
 CO1: Interpret the deployment and service models of cloud applications.

 CO2: Describe big data analytical concepts.

CO3: Ingest, store, and secure data.

CO4: Process and Visualize structured and unstructured data.

Unit-1 Teaching Hours:18
INTRODUCTION  
Introduction to cloud computing - Major benefits of cloud computing - Cloud
computing deployment models - Private cloud - Public cloud - Hybrid cloud - Types
of cloud computing services -Infrastructure as a Service – PaaS – SaaS - Emerging
cloud technologies and services - Different ways to secure the cloud - Risks and
challenges with the cloud - What is cloud analytics? Parameters before adopting cloud
strategy - Technologies utilized by cloud computing

1.Creating Virtual Machines using Hypervisors

2.IaaS: Compute service - Creating and running Virtual Machines

Unit-2 Teaching Hours:18
CLOUD ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES  
Virtualization - Load Balancing - Scalability & Elasticity – Deployment –Replication
– Monitoring - Software Defined Networking - Network Function Virtualization –
MapReduce - Identity and Access Management - Service Level Agreements - Billing

1.      Storage as a Service: Ingesting & Querying data into cloud

2.      Database as a Service: Building DB Server

Unit-3 Teaching Hours:18
BASIC CLOUD SERVICES &
 
PLATFORMS
Compute Services

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud - Google Compute Engine -     Windows     Azure    
Virtual Machines

Storage Services

Amazon Simple Storage Service - Google Cloud Storage - Windows Azure Storage

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Database Services

Amazon Relational Data Store - Amazon DynamoDB - Google Cloud SQL - Google
Cloud Datastore - Windows Azure SQL Database - Windows Azure Table Service

1.      PaaS: Working with GoogleAppEngine

Unit-4 Teaching Hours:18
DATA INGESTION AND STORING  
Cloud Dataflow - The Dataflow programming model - Cloud Pub/Sub - Cloud
storage - Cloud SQL - Cloud BigTable - Cloud Spanner - Cloud Datastore -
Persistent disks 

1. Database as a Service: Building DB Server

2. Transforming data
PROCESSING AND VISUALIZING
 Google BigQuery - Cloud Dataproc - Google Cloud Datalab - Google Data Studio

 1.      Visualize structured data and unstructureddata

Unit-5 Teaching Hours:18
MACHINE LEARNING, DEEP
 
LEARNING AND AI
Services on Artificial intelligence - Machine learning - Cloud Natural Language API
– TensorFlow - Cloud Speech API - Cloud Translation API - Cloud Vision API -
Cloud Video Intelligence – Dialogflow – AutoML

1. Load and query data in a data warehouse

2. Setting up and executing a data pipeline job to load data into cloud
Text Books And Reference Books:
1.
Sanket Thodge, Cloud Analytics with Google Cloud Platform, Packt Publishing, 2018.

2.  Arshdeep Bahga and Vijay Madisetti, Cloud computing - A Hands-On Approach,
Create Space
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
1. Deven Shah, Kailash Jayaswal, Donald J. Houde, Jagannath Kallakurchi, Cloud
Computing - Black Book, Wiley, 2014.

2. Thomas Erl, Ricardo Puttini, Zaigham Mahmood, Cloud Computing: Concepts,

Technology & Architecture, Prentice Hall, 2014.
Evaluation Pattern

CIA-50%

ESE-50%
MDS372A - NATURAL LANGUAGE
PROCESSING (2020 Batch)
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No of Lecture
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:90
Hours/Week:6
Max Marks:150 Credits:5
Course Objectives/Course Description  
 The goal is to make familiar with the concepts of the study of human
language from a computational perspective. It covers syntactic,
semantic and discourse processing models, emphasizing machine
learning concepts.

 
Learning Outcome
  CO1: Understand various approaches on syntax and semantics in
NLP

 CO2: Apply various methods to discourse, generation, dialogue, and

summarization using NLP. 

  CO3: Analyze various methodologies used in machine translation,

machine learning techniques used in NLP including unsupervised
models and to  analyze real-time applications 
Unit-1 Teaching Hours:18
INTRODUCTION  
Introduction to NLP- Background and overview- NLP Applications -
NLP hard Ambiguity- Algorithms and models,Knowledge
Bottlenecks in NLP-Introduction to NLTK,Case study.

 Lab Exercises:

1.     Write a program to tokenize text

2.        Write a program to count word frequency and toremove

stopwords
Unit-2 Teaching Hours:18
PARSING AND SYNTAX  
WordLevelAnalysis: RegularExpressions,Text Normalization, Edit
Distance, Parsing and Syntax-Spelling, Error Detection and
correction-Words and Word classes-Part-of speech Tagging, Naive
Bayes and Sentiment Classification: Case study

 Lab Exercises:

 1.     Write a program to tokenize Non-English Languages

 2.     Write a program to get synonyms from WordNet

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Unit-3 Teaching Hours:18

SMOOTHED ESTIMATION AND
 
LANGUAGE MODELLING
N-gram Language Models:N-Grams,Evaluating Language
Models-The language modelling problem
Unit-3 Teaching Hours:18
SEMANTIC ANALYSIS AND DISCOURSE
 
PROCESSING
Semantic Analysis: Meaning Representation-Lexical Semantics-
Ambiguity-Word Sense Disambiguation. Discourse Processing:
cohesion-Reference Resolution- Discourse Coherence and Structure.

 Lab Exercises:

 1.     Write a program to get Antonyms from WordNet

 2.       Write a program for stemming Non-English words

 
Unit-4 Teaching Hours:18
NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION
 
AND MACHINE TRANSLATION
  Natural Language Generation: Architecture of NLG Systems,
Applications

  Machine Translation: Problems in Machine Translation- Machine

Translation Approaches-

Evaluation of Machine Translation systems.Case study:

Characteristics of Indian Languages

 LabExercises:  

1.  Write a program for lemmatizing words UsingWordNet

2.    Write a program to differentiate stemming and lemmatizing

words

 
Unit-5 Teaching Hours:18
INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND
 
LEXICAL RESOURCES
Information Retrieval: Design features of Information
Retrieval Systems-Classical, Non- classical, Alternative
Models of Information Retrieval – valuation Lexical
Resources: Word Embeddings - Word2vec- Glove.
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Unit-5 Teaching Hours:18

UNSUPERVISED METHODS IN NLP  
Graphical Models for Sequence Labelling in NLP

 Lab Exercises

 1.     Write a program for POS Tagging or Word Embeddings.

 2.     Case study-based program (IBM) or Sentiment analysis.

Text Books And Reference Books:
1.   Speech and Language Processing, Daniel Jurafsky and
James H., 2nd Edition, Martin PrenticeHall,2013.
2.    Foundations of Statistical Natural Language
Processing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999.

 
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading

  1.    Foundations of Computational Linguistics: Human-computer

Communication in Natural Language, Roland R. Hausser,
Springer,2014.

2.    Steven Bird, Ewan Klein and Edward Loper Natural Language
Processing with Python, O’Reilly Media; 1 edition,2009.

Web resources:

1.     https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/ed3book.pdf

2.     https://nptel.ac.in/courses/106101007/

3.     NLTK – Natural Language Tool Kit-http://www.nltk.org

Evaluation Pattern

CIA:50%

ESE:50%
MDS372AL - NATURAL LANGUAGE
PROCESSING (2020 Batch)
No of Lecture
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:90
Hours/Week:6
Max Marks:150 Credits:5
Course Objectives/Course Description  
The goal is to make familiar with the concepts of the study of human
language from a computational perspective. It covers syntactic,
semantic and discourse processing models, emphasizing machine
learning concepts.
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Learning Outcome
  CO1: Understand various approaches on syntax and semantics in NLP

    CO2: Apply various methods to discourse, generation, dialogue, and

summarization using NLP. 

    CO3: Analyze various methodologies used in machine translation, machine

learning techniques used in NLP including unsupervised models and    to    analyze
realtime applications
Unit-1 Teaching Hours:18
INTRODUCTION  
Introduction to NLP- Background and overview- NLP Applications -NLP hard
Ambiguity- Algorithms and models, Knowledge Bottlenecks in NLP-Introduction to
NLTK , Case study.
 
Lab Exercises:

           1.     Write a program to tokenize text

 2.     Write a program to count word frequency and to remove stop words
Unit-2 Teaching Hours:18
PARSING AND SYNTAX  
WordLevelAnalysis: RegularExpressions,Text Normalization,Edit Distance, Parsing
and Syntax-Spelling,Error Detection and correction-Words and Word classes-Part-
ofSpeech Tagging, Naive Bayes and Sentiment Classification: Case study
 
Lab Exercises:
 
           1.     Write a program to tokenize Non-English Languages

 2.     Write a program to get synonyms from WordNet

Unit-3 Teaching Hours:18
SMOOTHED ESTIMATION AND LANGUAGE
 
MODELLING
N-gram Language Models:N-Grams,Evaluating Language Models-The language
modelling problem
Unit-3 Teaching Hours:18
SEMANTIC ANALYSIS AND DISCOURSE
 
PROCESSING
Semantic Analysis: Meaning Representation-Lexical Semantics- Ambiguity-Word Sense
Disambiguation. Discourse Processing: cohesion-Reference Resolution- Discourse
Coherence and Structure.
 
Lab Exercises:
 
           1.     Write a program to get Antonyms from WordNet

 2.       Write a program for stemming Non-English words

Unit-4 Teaching Hours:18
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NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION AND

 
MACHINE TRANSLATION
Natural Language Generation: Architecture of NLG Systems, Applications.

          Machine Translation: Problems in Machine Translation- Machine Translation Approaches-

Evaluation of Machine Translation systems.Case study: Characteristics of Indian Languages

          Lab Exercises:  

          1.  Write a program for lemmatizing words UsingWordNet

 
          2.  Write a program to differentiate stemming and lemmatizing  words

Unit-5 Teaching Hours:18

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND LEXICAL
 
RESOURCES
Information Retrieval: Design features of Information Retrieval Systems-Classical, Non-
classical, Alternative

           Models of Information Retrieval – valuation Lexical Resources: Word Embeddings - Word2vec-

Glove.

 
Unit-5 Teaching Hours:18
UNSUPERVISED METHODS IN NLP  
Graphical Models for Sequence Labelling in NLP
 
Lab Exercises
 
          1.     Write a program for POS Tagging or Word Embeddings.

 2.     Case study-based program (IBM) or Sentiment analysis.

Text Books And Reference Books:
1.   Speech and Language Processing, Daniel Jurafsky and James H., 2nd Edition, Martin
PrenticeHall,2013.
2.   Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,
1999.
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
1.    Foundations of Computational Linguistics: Human-computer Communication in
Natural Language, Roland R. Hausser, Springer,2014.
2.  Steven Bird, Ewan Klein and Edward Loper Natural Language Processing with Python,
O’Reilly Media; 1 edition,2009.
Evaluation Pattern
CIA-50% Marks ESE-50% Marks

CAT1 CAC1 Regular Attendance CAT2 CAC2 CAT3

Lab
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25% 20% 45% 10% 30% 30% 40%

MDS372B - WEB ANALYTICS (2020 Batch)

No of Lecture
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:90
Hours/Week:6
Max Marks:150 Credits:5
Course Objectives/Course Description  
The objective of this course is to provide an overview and the importance of Web
analytics and helps to understand role of Web analytic. This course also explores
the effective of Web analytic strategies and implementation
Learning Outcome
CO1: Understand the concept and importance of Web analytics in an organization
and the role of Web analytic in collecting, analyzing and reporting website traffic.

CO2: Identify key tools and diagnostics associated with Web analytics.

CO3: Explore effective Web analytics strategies and implementation and

Understand the importance of web analytic as a tool for e-Commerce, business
research, and market research. 

 
Unit-1 Teaching Hours:18
INTRODUCTION TO WEB ANALYTICS  
Introduction to Web Analytics: Web Analytics Approach – A Model
of Analysis – Context matters – Data Contradiction – Working of
Web Analytics: Log file analysis – Page tagging – Metrics and
Dimensions – Interacting with data in Google Analytics

Lab Exercise

1. Working concept of web analytics

2. Evaluation with Intermediate metrics, custom metrics, calculated

metrics.

 
Unit-2 Teaching Hours:18
LEARNING ABOUT USERS THROUGH
 
WEB ANALYTICS
Goals: Introduction – Goals and Conversions – Conversion Rate –
Goal reports in Google Analytics – Performance Indicators –
Analyzing Web Users: Learning about users – Traffic Analysis –
Analyzing user content – Click-Path analysis – Segmentation

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Lab Exercise

1. Collection of web data and other internet data with the help of
web analytics

2. Delivering reports based on collected data

3. Implement the concept of web analytics ecosystem

Unit-3 Teaching Hours:18
GOOGLE ANALYTICS  
Different analytical tools - Key features and capabilities of Google
analytics- How Google analytics works - Implementing Google
analytics - Getting up and running with Google analytics -
Navigating Google analytics – Using Google analytics reports -
Google metrics - Using visitor data to drive website improvement-
Focusing on key performance indicators- Integrating Google
analytics with third-Party applications 

Lab Exercise

1. Creation of segmentation in web analytics

2. Visualization, acquisition and conversions of web analytics data

Unit-4 Teaching Hours:18
OVERVIEW OF QUALITATIVE
 
ANALYSIS
Lab Usability Testing- Heuristic Evaluations- Site Visits- Surveys
(Questionnaires) - Testing and Experimentation: A/B Testing and
Multivariate Testing-Competitive Intelligence - Analysis Search
Analytics: Performing Internal Site Search Analytics, Search Engine
Optimization (SEO) and Pay per Click (PPC)-Website Optimization
against KPIs- Content optimization- Funnel/Goal optimization - Text
Analytics: Natural Language Processing (NLP)- Supervised Machine
Learning (ML) Algorithms-API and Web data scarping using R and
Python 

Lab Exercise

1. Performing site search analytics

2. Analyse the web analytic reports and visualizations

3. Performing visual web analytics

Unit-5 Teaching Hours:18
VISUAL ANALYTICS  

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VISUAL ANALYTICS:  Drill down and hierarchies-Sorting-

Grouping- Additional Ways to Group- Creating Sets- Analysis with
Cubes and MDX- Filtering for Top and Top N- Using the Filter
Shelf- The Formatting Pane- Trend Lines- Forecasting- Formatting-
Parameters -  SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS:  Types of social
network-Graph Visualization-Network Relationships-Network
structures: equivalence-Network Evolution-Diffusion in networks-
Descriptive Modeling-Predictive Modeling-Customer Profiling-
Network targeting 

 Lab Exercise

1. Assignments and final discussions

2. Web Analytics case studies 

Text Books And Reference Books:

1. Beasley M, (2013), Practical web analytics for user experience:

How analytics can help you understand your users. Newnes, 1st
edition, Morgan Kaufmann.

2. Sponder M, (2013), Social media analytics: Effective tools for

building, interpreting, and using metrics, 1st edition, McGraw Hill
Professional.

3. Clifton B, (2012), Advanced Web Metrics with Google Analytics,

3rd edition, John Wiley & Sons.. 

 
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading

1. Peterson E. T, (2004), Web Analytics Demystified: AMarketer's

Guide to Understanding How Your Web Site Affects Your Business.
Ingram.

2. Sostre P, LeClaire J, (2007), Web Analytics for dummies, John

Wiley & Sons.

3. Burby J, Atchison S, (2007), Actionable web analytics: using data

to make smart business decisions, John Wiley & Sons.

4. Dykes B, (2011), Web analytics action hero: Using analysis to

gain insight and optimize your business, Adobe Press.  
Evaluation Pattern

CIA 50%

ESE 50%
MDS372C - BIO INFORMATICS (2020 Batch)
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MDS372C - BIO INFORMATICS (2020 Batch)

No of Lecture
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:90
Hours/Week:6
Max Marks:150 Credits:5
Course Objectives/Course Description  
To enable the students to learn the information search and retrieval,
Genome analysis and Gene mapping, alignment of multiple
sequences, and PERL for Bioinformatics. 

 
Learning Outcome
CO1: To understand the molecular Biology and Bioinformatics
applications. 

CO2: Apply the modeling and simulation technologies in Biology

and medicine.

CO3: Evaluate the algorithms to find the similarity between protein

and DNA sequences. 
Unit-1 Teaching Hours:18
BIOINFORMATICS  
Introduction, Historical Overview and Definition, Applications, Major databases in
Bioinformatics, Data management and Analysis, Central Dogma of Molecular
Biology.

INFORMATION SEARCH AND RETRIEVAL       

Introduction, Tools for web search, Data retrieval tools, Data mining of Biological
databases. 

Lab Exercise

1. Test and verify the basic Linux commands and Filters.

2. Create the file(s) and verify the file handling commands.

Unit-2 Teaching Hours:18
GENOME ANALYSIS AND GENE MAPPING  
GENOME ANALYSIS AND GENE MAPPING Introduction, Genome analysis,
Genome mapping, Sequence assembly problem, Genetic mapping and linkage
analysis, Physical maps, Cloning the entire Genome, Genome sequencing,
Applications of Genetic maps, Identification of Genes in Contigs, Human Genome
Project.  ALIGNMENT OF PAIRS OF SEQUENCES Introduction, Biological
motivation of alignment, Methods of sequence alignments, Using score matrices,
Measuring sequence detection
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Lab Exercise

1. Create directories and verify the directory commands.

2. Perform basic mathematical operations using PERL.

3. Write a PERL script to demonstrate the Array operations and Regular expressions.
Unit-3 Teaching Hours:18
ALIGNMENT OF MULTIPLE SEQUENCES  
ALIGNMENT OF MULTIPLE SEQUENCES Methods of multiple sequence
alignment, Evaluating multiple alignments, Applications of multiple alignments,
Phylogenetic analysis, Methods of phylogenetic analysis, Tree evaluation, Problems
in Phylogenetic analysis. 

TOOLS FOR SIMILARITY SEARCH AND SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT

Introduction, Working with FASTA, Working with BLAST, Filtering and Gapped
BLAST, FASTA and BLAST algorithm comparison. 

 Lab Exercise

1. Write a PERL script to concatenate DNA sequences. 

2. Write a PERL script to transcribe DNA sequence into RNA sequence

3. Write a PERL script to calculate the reverse complement of a strand of DNA.

Unit-4 Teaching Hours:18
PERL FOR BIOINFORMATICS  
Sequences and Strings: Representing sequence data, Program to store a DNA
sequence, Concatenating DNA fragments, Transcription DNA to RNA, Proteins, Files
and Arrays, Reading Proteins in Files, Arrays, Scalar and List Context. 

Motifs and Loops: Flow control, Code layout, Finding motifs, Counting Nucleotides,
Exploding strings and arrays, Operating on strings. Subroutine and Bugs: Subroutines,
Scoping and Subroutines, Command line arguments and Arrays, Passing data to
Subroutines, Modules and Libraries of Subroutines. 

 Lab Exercise

1. Write a PERL script to read protein sequence data from a file.

2. Write a PERL script to search for a motif in a DNA sequence.

Unit-5 Teaching Hours:18
THE GENETIC CODE  
Hashes, Data structure and algorithms for Biology, Translating DNA into Proteins,
Reading DNA from the files in FASTA format, Reading Frames. GenBank: GenBank
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files, GenBank Libraries, Separating Sequence and Annotation, Parsing Annotations,

Indexing GenBank with DBM. Protein Data Bank: Files and Folders, PDB Files,
Parsing PDB Files. 

 1. Write a PERL script to append ACGT to DNA using a subroutine.

2 . Case Study: a. To retrieve the sequence of the Human keratin protein from UniProt
database and to interpret the results. b. To retrieve the sequence of the Human keratin
protein from GenBank database and to interpret the results. 
Text Books And Reference Books:

[1] Bioinformatics: Methods and Applications, S. C. Rastogi, Namita Mendirata and

Parag Rastogi, 4th Edition, PHI Learning, 2013.   

[2] Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics, Tisdall James, 1st edition, Shroff Publishers
(O’Reilly), 2009.    
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading

[1] Introduction to Bioinformatics, Arthur M Lesk, 2nd Edition, Oxford University

Press,4th edition, 2014.

[2] Bioinformatics Technologies, Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen (Ed), 1st edition, Springer,
2005.

[3] Bioinformatics Computing, Bryan Bergeron, 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall, 1st
edition, 2003.

Web resources:

[1]
http://cac.annauniv.edu/PhpProject1/aidetails/afug_2013_fu/24.%20BIO%20MED.pdf

[2] https://www.amrita.edu/school/biotechnology/academics/pg/introduction-
bioinformaticsbif410

[3] https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/8084/assignments/syllabus

[4] https://www.coursera.org/specializations/bioinformatics

[5] http://www.dtc.ox.ac.uk/modules/introduction-bioinformatics-bioscientists.html 
Evaluation Pattern

CIA 50%

ESE 50%
MDS372D - EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS (2020 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:90 No of Lecture Hours/Week:6
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Max Marks:150 Credits:5

Course Objectives/Course Description  
Able to understand the core concepts of evolutionary computing techniques and
popular evolutionary algorithms that are used in solving optimization
problems.Students will be able to implement custom solutions for real-time problems
applicable with evolutionary computing.
Learning Outcome
CO1:Basic understanding of evolutionary computing concepts and techniques

CO2:Classifyrelevantreal-time problems for the applications of evolutionary

algorithms

CO3:Design solutions using evolutionary algorithms

Unit-1 Teaching Hours:18
Lab Program  
1.     Implementation of single and multi-objectivefunctions

2.     Implementation of binaryGA

Unit-1 Teaching Hours:18
INTRODUCTION TO EVOLUTIONARY
 
COMPTUTING
Terminologies – Notations – Problems to be solved – Optimization –
Modeling – Simulation
– Search problems – Optimization constraints
Unit-2 Teaching Hours:18
EVOLUTION STRATEGY  
One plus one evolution strategy – The 1/5 Rule – (μ+1) evolution strategy –
Self adaptive evolution strategy
Unit-2 Teaching Hours:18
Lab Program  
1.     Implementation of continuousGA

2.     Implementation of evolutionaryprogramming

Unit-2 Teaching Hours:18
EVOLUTIONARY PROGRAMMING  
Continuous evolutionary programming – Finite state machine optimization –
Discrete evolutionary programming – The Prisoner’s dilemma
Unit-3 Teaching Hours:18
GENETIC PROGRAMMING  
Fundamentals of genetic programming – Genetic programming for minimal
time control
Unit-3 Teaching Hours:18

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EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHM VARIATION  

Initialization – Convergence – Population diversity – Selection option –
Recombination – Mutation
Unit-3 Teaching Hours:18
Lab Program  
1.     Implementation of geneticprogramming

2.     Implementation of Ant ColonyOptimization

Unit-4 Teaching Hours:18
Lab Program  
1.     Implementation of Particle SwarmOptimization

2.     Implementation of Multi-ObjectOptimization

Unit-4 Teaching Hours:18
ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION  
Pheromone models – Ant system – Continuous Optimization – Other Ant
System
Unit-4 Teaching Hours:18
PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION  
Velocity limiting – Inertia weighting – Global Velocity updates – Fully
informed Particle Swarm
Unit-5 Teaching Hours:18
Lab Program  
1.        Simulation of EA in Planning problems (routing, scheduling,
packing) and Design problems (Circuit, structure,art)
2.     Simulation of EA in classification/predictionmodelling
Unit-5 Teaching Hours:18
MULT-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIATION  
Pareto Optimality – Hyper volume – Relative coverage – Non-pareto
based EAs – Pareto based EAs – Multi-objective Biogeography based
optimization
Text Books And Reference Books:

[1] D. Simon, Evolutionary optimization algorithms: biologically inspired and

population-based approaches to computer intelligence. New Jersey: John Wiley,
2013.
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
1. Eiben and J. Smith, Introduction to evolutionary computing. 2nd ed. 
Berlin:  Springer,  2015.

2.       
D.Goldberg,Geneticalgorithmsinsearch,optimization,andmachinelearning.Boston:
Addison-Wesley,2012.

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3.        K. Deb, Multi-objective optimization using evolutionary algorithms.

Chichester: John Wiley & Sons,2009.

4.        R. Poli, W. Langdon, N. McPhee and J. Koza, A field guide to genetic

programming. [S.l.]: Lulu Press,2008.

5.       
T.Bäck,Evolutionaryalgorithmsintheoryandpractice.NewYork:OxfordUniv.Press,
1996.

Web Resources:

1          E.A.EandS.J.E,"IntroductiontoEvolutionaryComputing|Theon-line
accompaniment to the book Introduction toEvolutionary
Computing",Evolutionarycomputation.org,2015.[Online].Available:
http://www.evolutionarycomputation.org/.

2      F.Lobo,"EvolutionaryComputation2018/2019",Fernandolobo.info,2018.
[Online]. Available:http://www.fernandolobo.info/ec1819.

3    "EClabTools",Cs.gmu.edu,2008.[Online].Available:
https://cs.gmu.edu/~eclab/tools.html.

4    "Kanpur Genetic Algorithms Laboratory", Iitk.ac.in, 2008. [Online].

Available: https://www.iitk.ac.in/kangal/codes.shtml.

5    "Course webpage Evolutionary Algorithms", Liacs.leidenuniv.nl, 2017.

[Online]. Available:http://liacs.leidenuniv.nl/~csnaco/EA/misc/ga_demo.htm.
Evaluation Pattern

CIA: 50%

ESE : 50%
MDS372E - OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUE (2020 Batch)
No of Lecture
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:90
Hours/Week:6
Max Marks:150 Credits:5
Course Objectives/Course Description  
This course will help the students to acquire and demonstrate the implementation
of the necessary algorithms for solving advanced level Optimization techniques.
Learning Outcome

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CO1: Apply the notions of linear programming in solving transportation

problems

CO2: Understand the theory of games for solving simple games

CO3: Use linear programming in the formulation of the shortest route problem.

CO4: Apply algorithmic approach in solving various types of network problems

CO5: Create applications using dynamic programming.

Unit-1 Teaching Hours:18
INTRODUCTION  
Operations Research Methods - Solving the OR model - Queuing
and Simulation models – Art of modelling – phases of OR study.
Unit-1 Teaching Hours:18
MODELLING WITH LINEAR
 
PROGRAMMING
Two variable LP model – Graphical LP solution – Applications.
Simplex method and sensitivity analysis – Duality and post-optimal
Analysis- Formulation of the dual problem.

Lab Exercise

 1.    Simplex Method 

 2.   Dual Simplex Method
Unit-2 Teaching Hours:18
TRANSPORTATION MODEL  
Determination of the Starting Solution – Iterative computations of
the transportation algorithm. Assignment Model: The Hungarian
Method – Simplex explanation of the Hungarian Method – The
trans-shipment Model. 

Lab Exercise

1.   Balanced Transportation Problem

2.   Unbalanced Transportation Problem

3.   Assignment Problems

 
Unit-3 Teaching Hours:18
CPM and PERT  
Network Representation – Critical Path Computations –
Construction of the time Schedule – Linear Programming
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formulation of CPM – PERT networks. 

Lab Exercise:

1. Shortest path computations in a network

2.Maximum flow problem

 
Unit-3 Teaching Hours:18
NETWORK MODELS  
Minimal Spanning tree Algorithm – Linear Programming
formulation of the shortest-route problem. Maximal Flow Model:
Enumeration of cuts – Maximal Flow Diagram – Linear
Programming Formulation of Maximal Flow Model.
Unit-4 Teaching Hours:18
GOAL PROGRAMMING  
Formulation – Tax Planning Problem – Goal Programming
algorithms – Weights method – Preemptive method.

Lab Exercise:

1.  Critical path Computations

2.   Game Programming

Unit-4 Teaching Hours:18
GAME THEORY  
Strategic Games and examples - Nash equilibrium and examples -
Optimal Solution of two person zero sum games - Solution of Mixed
strategy games - Mixed strategy Nash equilibrium - Dominated
action with example.
Unit-5 Teaching Hours:18
DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING  
Recursive nature of computation in Dynamic Programming –
Forward and Backward Recursion – Knapsack / Fly Away / Cargo-
Loading Model – Equipment Replacement Model.

Lab Exercise:

1. Goal Programming

2. Dynamic Programming
Unit-5 Teaching Hours:18
MARKOV CHAINS  

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Definition – Absolute and n-step Transition Probability –

Classification of states.
Text Books And Reference Books:
1.          Hamdy A Taha, Operations Research, 9th Edition, Pearson
Education, 2012.

2.      Garrido José M. Introduction to Computational Models with

Python. CRC Press, 2016.
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading

1.          Rathindra P Sen, Operations Research – Algorithms and

Applications, PHI Learning Pvt. Limited, 2011 

2.          R. Ravindran, D. T. Philips and J. J. Solberg, Operations

Research: Principles and Practice, 2nd ed., John Wiley & Sons,
2007. 

3.          F. S. Hillier and G. J. Lieberman, Introduction to operations

research, 8th ed., McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2004. 

4.      K.C. Rao and S. L. Mishra, Operations research, Alpha Science

International, 2005. 

5.          Hart, William E. Pyomo: Optimization Modeling in Python.

Springer, 2012. 

6.          Martin J. Osborne, An introduction to Game theory, Oxford

University Press, 2008
Evaluation Pattern

CIA: 50%

ESE: 50%
MDS381 - SPECIALIZATION PROJECT (2020 Batch)
No of Lecture
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:60
Hours/Week:4
Max Marks:100 Credits:2
Course Objectives/Course Description  
The course is designed to provide a real-world project development
and deployment environment for the students. 
Learning Outcome
CO1: Identify the problem and relevant analytics for the selected
domain.

CO2: Apply appropriate design/development strategy and tools. 

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Unit-1 Teaching Hours:60

Specialization Project  
Project will be based on the specialization domains which students
are opted for during this semester.
Text Books And Reference Books:

-
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading

-
Evaluation Pattern

CIA: 50%

ESE: 50%
MDS381L - SPECIALIZATION PROJECT (2020
Batch)

Total Teaching Hours for No of Lecture

Semester:60 Hours/Week:4
Max Marks:100 Credits:2
Course Objectives/Course
 
Description
The course is designed to provide a real-world project development and deployment
environment for the students. 
Learning Outcome
CO1: Identify the problem and relevant analytics for the selected domain.

CO2: Apply appropriate design/development strategy and tools. 

Unit-1 Teaching Hours:60
Specialization Project  
Project will be based on the specialization domains which students are opted for
during this semester.
Text Books And Reference Books:

NOT APPLICABLE
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading

NOT APPLICABLE
Evaluation Pattern
CIA: 50%

ESE: 50%
MDS382 - SEMINAR (2020 Batch)

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Total Teaching Hours for No of Lecture

Semester:30 Hours/Week:2
Max Marks:50 Credits:1
Course Objectives/Course
 
Description
The course is designed to provide to enhance the soft skills and
technical undetstanding of the students.  

 
Learning Outcome
CO1: Understand new and latest trends in data science

CO2: Demonstrate the professional presentation abilities

CO3: Apply the acquired knowledge in their Research

 
Teaching
Unit-1 Hours:30
Students will be giving presentations on any
advanced concepts and technologies in data  
science and submit the report
-
Text Books And Reference Books:

Research Articles / Books / Web resources related to data science

domain
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading

Recommended References
Evaluation Pattern

CIA 100%

 
MDS382L - SEMINAR (2020 Batch)
No of Lecture
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:30
Hours/Week:2
Max Marks:50 Credits:1
Course Objectives/Course Description  

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The course is designed to provide to enhance the soft skills and technical
understanding of the students.
Learning Outcome
CO1:Understand new and latest trends in data science

CO2:Demonstrate the professional presentation abilities

CO3:Apply the acquired knowledge in their Research

Unit-1 Teaching Hours:30
Seminar  
Seminar
Text Books And Reference Books:

NA
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading

NA
Evaluation Pattern

 100% CIA

Two Minute 4 minutes Talk on GD Improv Interview

Talks talk emerging
trends (10
(Audio,Video) Minutes)
10 5 5 10 10 10
MDS481 - INDUSTRY PROJECT (2020 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for No of Lecture
Semester:30 Hours/Week:2
Max Marks:300 Credits:12
Course Objectives/Course
 
Description
  This course helps the student to develop students to become
globally competent and to inculcate Entrepreneurial skills among
students.
Learning Outcome
CO1: Develop Real time Projects.

CO2: Practices different data science principles and strategies in the

project.
Unit-1 Teaching Hours:30
Project Work  
It is a full time project to be taken up either in the industry or in an
R&D organization
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Text Books And Reference Books:

-
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading

-
Evaluation Pattern

CIA: 50%

ESE: 50%

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