Savitribai Phule Pune University

T.Y.B.Sc. (Computer Science) – Sem - V

Course Type:DSEC – II Course Code: CS - 354
Paper Title : Foundations of Data Science

Teaching Scheme No. of Credits Examination Scheme

03 lectures / week 2 IE : 15 marks
UE: 35 marks
Prerequisites
 Problem solving using computers
 Basic mathematics and statistics
 Knowledge of Databases
Course Objectives
 Provide students with knowledge and skills for data-intensive problem solving and
scientific discovery
 Be prepared with a varied range of expertise in different aspects of data science such as
data collection, visualization, processing and modeling of large data sets.
 Acquire good understanding of both the theory and application of applied statistics and
computer science based existing data science models to analyze huge data sets
originating from diversified application areas.
 Be better trained professionals to cater the growing demand for data scientists in
industry.
Course Outcomes
On completion of the course, student will be able to–
 Perform Exploratory Data Analysis
 Obtain, clean/process, and transform data.
 Detect and diagnose common data issues, such as missing values, special values,
outliers, inconsistencies, and localization.
 Demonstrate proficiency with statistical analysis of data.
 Present results using data visualization techniques.
 Prepare data for use with a variety of statistical methods and models and recognize how
the quality of the data and the means of data collection may affect conclusions.
Course Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction to Data Science 6 lectures
Introduction to data science, The 3 V’s: Volume, Velocity, Variety
Why learn Data Science?
Applications of Data Science
The Data Science Lifecycle
Data Scientist’s Toolbox
Types of Data
Structured, semi-structured, Unstructured Data, Problems with unstructured
data
Data sources
Open Data, Social Media Data, Multimodal Data, standard datasets
Data Formats
Integers, Floats, Text Data, Text Files, Dense Numerical Arrays, Compressed or
Archived Data, CSV Files, JSON Files, XML Files, HTML Files , Tar Files,
GZip Files, Zip Files, Image Files: Rasterized, Vectorized, and/or Compressed
Chapter 2 Statistical Data Analysis 10 lectures
2.1.Role of statistics in data science
2.2.Descriptive statistics
Measuring the Frequency
Measuring the Central Tendency: Mean, Median, and Mode
Measuring the Dispersion: Range, Standard deviation, Variance, Interquartile
Range
2.3.Inferential statistics
Hypothesis testing, Multiple hypothesis testing, Parameter Estimation methods,
2.4.Measuring Data Similarity and Dissimilarity
Data Matrix versus Dissimilarity Matrix, Proximity Measures for Nominal
Attributes, Proximity Measures for Binary Attributes, Dissimilarity of Numeric
Data: Euclidean, Manhattan, and Minkowski distances, Proximity Measures for
Ordinal Attributes
2.5.Concept of Outlier, types of outliers, outlier detection methods

Chapter 3 Data Preprocessing 10 lectures

Data Objects and Attribute Types: What Is an Attribute?, Nominal , Binary, Ordinal
Attributes, Numeric Attributes, Discrete versus Continuous Attributes
Data Quality: Why Preprocess the Data?
3.3.Data munging/wrangling operations
Cleaning Data - Missing Values, Noisy Data (Duplicate Entries, Multiple
Entries for a Single Entity, Missing Entries, NULLs, Huge Outliers, Out‐of‐
Date Data, Artificial Entries, Irregular Spacings, Formatting Issues - Irregular
between Different Tables/Columns, Extra Whitespace, Irregular Capitalization,
Inconsistent Delimiters, Irregular NULL Format, Invalid Characters,
Incompatible Datetimes)
Data Transformation – Rescaling, Normalizing, Binarizing, Standardizing, Label and One
Hot Encoding
Data reduction
Data discretization

Chapter 4 Data Visualization 10 lectures

Introduction to Exploratory Data Analysis
Data visualization and visual encoding
Data visualization libraries
Basic data visualization tools
Histograms, Bar charts/graphs, Scatter plots, Line charts, Area plots, Pie charts,
Donut charts
Specialized data visualization tools
Boxplots, Bubble plots, Heat map, Dendrogram, Venn diagram, Treemap, 3D
scatter plots
Advanced data visualization tools- Wordclouds
Visualization of geospatial data
Data Visualization types
Reference Books:
1) Data Science Fundamentals and Practical Approaches, Gypsy Nandi, Rupam
Sharma, BPB Publications, 2020.
2) The Data Science Handbook, Field Cady, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2017
3) Data Mining Concepts and Techniques, Third Edition, Jiawei Han, Micheline
 Kamber, Jian Pei, Morgan Kaufmann, 2012.
4) A Hands-On Introduction to Data Science, Chirag Shah, University of
Washington Cambridge University Press