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Course Name Foundations of Data Science
Course Code 24AI631
Program M. Tech. in Artificial Intelligence
Semester Soft Core
Credits 4
Campus Amritapuri ,Coimbatore

Syllabus

Introduction to Data Science, Causality and Experiments, Data Pre-processing – Data cleaning – Data reduction – Data transformation, Visualization and Graphing: Visualizing Categorical Distributions – Visualizing Numerical Distributions – Overlaid Graphs and plots – Summary statistics of exploratory data analysis, Randomness, Probability, Introduction to Statistics, Sampling, Sample Means and Sample Sizes.

Probability distributions and density functions (univariate and multivariate), Error Probabilities; Expectations and moments; Covariance and correlation; Sampling and Empirical distributions; Permutation Testing, Statistical Inference; Hypothesis testing of means, proportions, variances and correlations – Assessing Models – Decisions and Uncertainty, Comparing Samples – A/B Testing, P-Values, Causality.

Estimation – Resampling and Bootstrap – Confidence Intervals, Properties of Mean – Central Limit Theorem – Variability of mean -Choosing Sample Size, Prediction – Regression – Method of Least Squares – Visual and Numerical Diagnostics – Inference for true slope – Prediction intervals, Classification – Nearest neighbors – accuracy of a classifier, Updating Predictions – Making Decisions – Bayes Theorem, Graphical Models

Objectives and Outcomes

Course Objectives

  • To understand the important steps in drawing useful conclusions from data.
  • To ask appropriate questions about data after data exploration using visualization and descriptive statistics
  • To apply machine learning and optimization techniques to make predictions.
  • To correctly interpret the answers generated by inferential and computational tools.

 

Course Outcomes

COs

Description

CO1

Understand the statistical foundations of data science

CO2

Learn techniques to pre-process raw data so as to enable further analysis

CO3

Conduct exploratory data analysis and create insightful visualizations to identify patterns

CO4

Apply machine learning algorithms for prediction/classification and to derive insights

CO5

Evaluate the degree of certainty of predictions using statistical test and models in Python

 

CO-PO Mapping

 

COs

Description

PO1

PO2

PO3

PO4

PO5

CO1

Understand the statistical foundations of data science

1

2

3

1

1

CO2

Learn techniques to pre-process raw data so as to

enable further analysis

1

2

3

1

1

CO3

Conduct exploratory data analysis and create insightful visualizations to identify patterns

1

2

3

3

1

CO4

Apply machine learning algorithms for prediction

and classification to derive insights

3

2

1

2

1

CO5

Evaluate the degree of certainty of predictions using statistical test and models

1

2

2

1

2

 

Prerequisites

  • Basic Probability

Evaluation Pattern

Evaluation Pattern – 70:30

 

  • Midterm Exam – 20%
  • Continuous Evaluation – 50%
  • End Semester Exam – 30%

Text Books / References

Text Book / References

  1. Ani Adhikari and John DeNero, ”Computational and Inferential Thinking: The Foundations of Data Science”, e-book.
  2. Joel Grus, ”Data Science from Scratch: First Principles with Python”, 2/e, O’Reilly Media, 2019.
  3. Peter Bruce, Andrew Bruce and Peter Gedeck, ”Practical Statistics for Data Scientists: 50+ Essential Concepts Using R and Python”, 2/e, O’Reilly Media, 2020.
  4. Allen B. Downey, “Think Stats: Probability and Statistics for Programmers”, 2/e, by O’Reilly Media, 2014.
  5. Cathy O’Neil and Rachel Schutt, ”Doing Data Science”, O’Reilly Media, 2013.

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