DATASCIENCE & MACHINE LEARNING WITH PYTHON

Data Science & ML With Python Training & Certification in Pune

Highly Experienced Certified Trainer with 15+ yrs Exp. in Industry

Realtime Projects, Scenarios & Assignments

2 Major Projects | 10 Minor Projects | 100+ Assignments

Data Sets, Installations, Interview Preparations, Repeat the session until 6 months are all attractions of this particular course

Trainer : Experienced Data Science Consultant

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COURSE CONTENT :

Introduction to Data Science with Python

• What is analytics & Data Science?
• Common Terms in Analytics
• Analytics vs. Data warehousing, OLAP, MIS Reporting
• Relevance in industry and need of the hour
• Types of problems and business objectives in various industries
• How leading companies are harnessing the power of analytics?
• Critical success drivers
• Overview of analytics tools & their popularity
• Analytics Methodology & problem solving framework
• List of steps in Analytics projects
• Identify the most appropriate solution design for the given problem statement
• Project plan for Analytics project & key milestones based on effort estimates
• Build Resource plan for analytics project

Python Essentials

• Why Python for data science?
• Overview of Python- Starting with Python
• Introduction to installation of Python
• Introduction to Python Editors & IDE’s(Canopy, pycharm, Jupyter, Rodeo, Ipython etc…)
• Understand Jupyter notebook & Customize Settings
• Concept of Packages/Libraries – Important packages(NumPy, SciPy, scikit-learn, Pandas, Matplotlib, etc)
• Installing & loading Packages & Name Spaces
• Data Types & Data objects/structures (strings, Tuples, Lists, Dictionaries)
• List and Dictionary Comprehensions
• Variable & Value Labels –  Date & Time Values
• Basic Operations – Mathematical – string – date
• Reading and writing data
• Simple plotting
• Control flow & conditional statements
• Debugging & Code profiling
• How to create class and modules and how to call them?

Scientific Distributions Used In Python For Data Science

NumPy, pandas, scikit-learn, stat models, nltk

Accessing/Importing And Exporting Data Using Python Modules  

• Importing Data from various sources (Csv, txt, excel, access etc)
• Database Input (Connecting to database)
• Viewing Data objects – subsetting Data, methods
• Exporting Data to various formats
• Important python modules : Pandas, beautiful soup

Data Manipulation – Cleansing – Munging using python modules

• Cleansing Data with Python
• Data Manipulation steps(Sorting, filtering, duplicates, merging, appending, subsetting, derived variables, sampling, Data type conversions, renaming, formatting etc)
• Data manipulation tools(Operators, Functions, Packages, control structures, Loops, arrays etc)
• Python Built-in Functions (Text, numeric, date, utility functions)
• Python User Defined Functions
• Stripping out extraneous information
• Normalizing data
• Formatting data
• Important Python modules for data manipulation (Pandas, Numpy, re, math, string, datetime etc.)

Data Analysis – Visualization Using Python

• Introduction exploratory data analysis
• Descriptive statistics, Frequency Tables and summarization
• Univariate Analysis (Distribution of data & Graphical Analysis)
• Bivariate Analysis (Cross Tabs, Distributions & Relationships, Graphical Analysis)
• Creating Graphs – Bar/pie/line chart/histogram/boxplot/scatter/density etc.)
• Important Packages for Exploratory Analysis (NumPy Arrays, Matplotlib, seaborn, Pandas and SciPy. Stats etc.)

Introduction to Statistics

• Basic Statistics – Measures of Central Tendencies and Variance
• Building blocks – Probability Distributions – Normal distribution – Central Limit Theorem
• Inferential Statistics -Sampling – Concept of Hypothesis Testing Statistical Methods – Z/t-tests (One sample, independent, paired), Analysis of variance, Correlations and Chi-square
• Important modules for statistical methods : NumPy, SciPy, Pandas

Introduction to Predictive Modelling

• Concept of model in analytics and how it is used?
• Common terminology used in analytics & Modelling process
• Popular modelling algorithms
• Types of Business problems – Mapping of Techniques
• Different Phases of Predictive Modelling

Data Exploration For Modelling

• Need for structured exploratory data
• EDA framework for exploring the data and identifying any problems with the data (Data Audit Report)
• Identify missing data
• Identify outliers data
• Visualize the data trends and patterns

Data Preparation

• Need of Data preparation
• Consolidation/Aggregation – Outlier treatment – Flat Liners – Missing values- Dummy creation – Variable Reduction
• Variable Reduction Techniques – Factor & PCA Analysis

Segmentation : Solving Segmentation Problems

• Introduction to Segmentation
• Types of Segmentation (Subjective Vs Objective, Heuristic Vs. Statistical)
• Heuristic Segmentation Techniques (Value Based, RFM Segmentation and Life Stage Segmentation)
• Behavioural Segmentation Techniques (K-Means Cluster Analysis)
• Cluster evaluation and profiling – Identify cluster characteristics
• Interpretation of results – Implementation on new data

Linear Regression : Solving Regression Problems

• Introduction – Applications
• Assumptions of Linear Regression
• Building Linear Regression Model
• Understanding standard metrics (Variable significance, R-square/Adjusted R-square, Global hypothesis ,etc)
• Assess the overall effectiveness of the model
• Validation of Models (Re running Vs. Scoring)
• Standard Business Outputs (Decile Analysis, Error distribution (histogram), Model equation, drivers etc.)
• Interpretation of Results – Business Validation – Implementation on new data

Logistic Regression : Solving Classification Problems

• Introduction – Applications
• Linear Regression Vs. Logistic Regression Vs. Generalized Linear Models
• Building Logistic Regression Model (Binary Logistic Model)
• Understanding standard model metrics (Concordance, Variable significance, Hosmer Lemeshov Test, Gini, KS, Misclassification, ROC Curve etc)
• Validation of Logistic Regression Models (Re running Vs. Scoring)
• Standard Business Outputs (Decile Analysis, ROC Curve, Probability Cut-offs, Lift charts, Model equation, Drivers or variable importance, etc)
• Interpretation of Results – Business Validation – Implementation on new data

Time Series Forecasting : Solving Forecasting Problems

• Introduction – Applications
• Time Series Components (Trend, Seasonality, Cyclicity and Level) and Decomposition
• Classification of Techniques (Pattern based – Pattern less)
• Basic Techniques – Averages, Smoothening, etc
• Advanced Techniques – AR Models, ARIMA, etc
• Understanding Forecasting Accuracy – MAPE, MAD, MSE, etc

Machine Learning : Predictive Modelling

• Introduction to Machine Learning & Predictive Modelling
• Types of Business problems – Mapping of Techniques – Regression vs. classification vs. segmentation vs. Forecasting
• Major Classes of Learning Algorithms -Supervised vs Unsupervised Learning
• Different Phases of Predictive Modelling (Data Pre-processing, Sampling, Model Building, Validation)
• Overfitting (Bias-Variance Trade off) & Performance Metrics
• Feature engineering & dimension reduction
• Concept of optimization & cost function
• Overview of gradient descent algorithm
• Overview of Cross validation(Bootstrapping, K-Fold validation etc)
• Model performance metrics (R-square, Adjusted R-square, RMSE, MAPE, AUC, ROC curve, recall, precision, sensitivity, specificity, confusion metrics)

Unsupervised Learning : Segmentation

• What is segmentation & Role of ML in Segmentation?
• Concept of Distance and related math background
• K-Means Clustering
• Expectation Maximization
• Hierarchical Clustering
• Spectral Clustering (DBSCAN)
• Principle component Analysis (PCA)

Supervised Learning : Decision Trees

• Decision Trees – Introduction – Applications
• Types of Decision Tree Algorithms
• Construction of Decision Trees through Simplified Examples; Choosing the “Best” attribute at each Non-Leaf node; Entropy; Information Gain, Gini Index, Chi Square, Regression Trees
• Generalizing Decision Trees; Information Content and Gain Ratio; Dealing with Numerical Variables; other Measures of Randomness
• Pruning a Decision Tree; Cost as a consideration; Unwrapping Trees as Rules
• Decision Trees – Validation
• Overfitting – Best Practices to avoid

Supervised Learning : Ensemble Learning

• Concept of Ensembling
• Manual Ensembling Vs. Automated Ensembling
• Methods of Ensembling (Stacking, Mixture of Experts)
• Bagging (Logic, Practical Applications)
• Random forest (Logic, Practical Applications)
• Boosting (Logic, Practical Applications)
• Ada Boost
• Gradient Boosting Machines (GBM)
• XGBoost

Supervised Learning : Artificial Neural Network – ANN

• Motivation for Neural Networks and Its Applications
• Perceptron and Single Layer Neural Network, and Hand Calculations
• Learning In a Multi Layered Neural Net: Back Propagation and Conjugant Gradient Techniques
• Neural Networks for Regression
• Neural Networks for Classification
• Interpretation of Outputs and Fine tune the models with hyper parameters
• Validating ANN models

Supervised Learning : Support Vector Machines

• Motivation for Support Vector Machine & Applications
• Support Vector Regression
• Support vector classifier (Linear & Non-Linear)
• Mathematical Intuition (Kernel Methods Revisited, Quadratic Optimization and Soft Constraints)
• Interpretation of Outputs and Fine tune the models with hyper parameters
• Validating SVM models

Supervised Learning : KNN

• What is KNN & Applications?
• KNN for missing treatment
• KNN For solving regression problems
• KNN for solving classification problems
• Validating KNN model
• Model fine tuning with hyper parameters

Supervised Learning : Naive Bayes

• Concept of Conditional Probability
• Bayes Theorem and Its Applications
• Naïve Bayes for classification
• Applications of Naïve Bayes in Classifications

Text Mining And Analytics

• Taming big text, Unstructured vs. Semi-structured Data; Fundamentals of information retrieval, Properties of words; Creating Term-Document (TxD); Matrices; Similarity measures, Low-level processes (Sentence Splitting; Tokenization; Part-of-Speech Tagging; Stemming; Chunking)
• Finding patterns in text: text mining, text as a graph
• Natural Language processing (NLP)
• Text Analytics – Sentiment Analysis using Python
• Text Analytics – Word cloud analysis using Python
• Text Analytics – Segmentation using K-Means/Hierarchical Clustering
• Text Analytics – Classification (Spam/Not spam)
• Applications of Social Media Analytics
• Metrics(Measures Actions) in social media analytics
• Examples & Actionable Insights using Social Media Analytics
• Important python modules for Machine Learning (SciKit Learn, stats models, scipy, nltk etc)
• Fine tuning the models using Hyper parameters, grid search, piping etc.

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