Data Science Syl Lab Us
Data Science Syl Lab Us
Continuous Continuous
University University Internal Internal
Lecture Tutorial Practical Credits Theory Practical Evaluation Evaluation Total
Examination Examination (CIE)- (CIE)-
Theory Practical
3 0 2 4 40 40 60 60 200
Course Outcome:
1. Learn the fundamentals of data analytics and the data science pipeline
2. Learn how to scope the resources required for a data science project
3. Apply principles of Data Science to the analysis of business problems.
4. Skill development in data mining software to solve real-world problems.
5. Increase in employability in cutting edge tools and technologies to analyze Big Data.
CONTENTS
UNIT-I
[12 Hours]
Introduction to data science:
Defining Data Science, what do data science people do? Data Science in Business, Use Cases for
Data Science, Data science and Big data, Data science and Machine learning
Data Science Process Overview – Defining goals – Retrieving data – Data preparation – Data
exploration – Data modeling – Presentation.
UNIT-II
[12 Hours]
Introduction to statistics:
What is statistics, Descriptive Statistics: Introduction, Population and sample, Types of variables,
Measures of central tendency, Measures of variability, Coefficient of variance, Skewness and
Kurtosis
Inferential Statistics:
Normal distribution, Test hypotheses, Central limit theorem, Confidence interval, T-test, Type I
and II errors
UNIT-III
[12 Hours]
Machine Learning Introduction and Concepts:
Machine learning – Modeling Process – Training model – Validating model – Predicting new
observations
Important machine learning terminologies, Types of machine learning algorithms, Supervised
learning algorithms: Types of supervised learning algorithms, Regression: Linear Regression,
Classification algorithms
Unsupervised learning algorithms: Clustering algorithms
UNIT-IV
[12 Hours]
Introduction to data visualization – Data visualization options – Filters – Python libraries for
visualization – Matplotlib- seaborn
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.
Course Outcome:
After completion of the course students will be able to:
1) Demonstrate knowledge of big data analytics.
2) Demonstrate the ability to think critically in making decisions based on data
3) Interpret data, extract meaningful information, and assess findings.
4) Identify and analyze social, legal, and ethical issues in data science.
5) Choose and apply tools and methodologies to solve data science tasks.
6) Explore future trends in data.
Text Books:
1. Introducing Data Science, Davy Cielen, Arno D. B. Meysman, Mohamed Ali, Manning
Publications Co., 1st edition, 2016
3. Ethics and Data Science, D J Patil, Hilary Mason, Mike Loukides, O’ Reilly, 1st edition,
2018
Reference Books:
LIST OF EXPERIMENTS