Advanced Programme in Data Sciences (APDS) 

offered by IIM Calcutta

Working professionals with a role involving handling and interpretation of data

Young managers aspiring to make a career in data science

Knowledge of Programming is not essential, but applicants must have basic understanding of Mathematics and Statistics

Overview of the data science lifecycle

Understanding data, data types, and data structures

Introduction to data collection, cleaning, and preprocessing

Descriptive and inferential statistics

Probability distributions and statistical testing

Hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, and regression analysis

Techniques for discovering patterns and relationships in data

Data visualization tools and techniques

Exploratory data analysis using Python/R

The objective of this programme is to introduce participants to the different tools and techniques used for handling, managing, analyzing and interpreting data

 The program will be hands-on with introduction to software such as, Tableau, Python, SPSS Modeler, R etc. The programme is suited for working professionals who would like to have a hands-on feel on working with data and making sense of it