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Data Science for Engineers by NPTEL
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Overview

Offered by Indian Institute of Technology Madras and NPTEL

Duration

8 weeks

Total fee

Free

Mode of learning

Online

Difficulty level

Beginner

Official Website

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Credential

Certificate

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Highlights

  • Offered by IIT Madras
  • Final score comprises of 25% of average of best 6 assignments and 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100
  • Enrollments start from 20 July 2020
  • Course conducted byProf. Ragunathan Rengasamy & Prof. Shankar Narasimhan (IIT Madras alumnus)
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  • Pay for Certification Examination
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Course details

What are the course deliverables?
  • Describe a flow process for data science problems (Remembering)
  • Classify data science problems into standard typology (Comprehension)
  • Develop R codes for data science solutions (Application)
  • Correlate results to the solution approach followed (Analysis)
  • Assess the solution approach (Evaluation)
  • Construct use cases to validate approach and identify modifications required (Creating)
More about this course
  • This course introduction of - R as a programming language , mathematical foundations required for data science, first level data science algorithms, data analytics problem solving framework and a practical capstone case study

Data Science for Engineers by NPTEL
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Curriculum

Week 1:

Course philosophy and introduction to R

Week 2:

Linear algebra for data science

Week 3:

Statistics (descriptive statistics, notion of probability, distributions, mean, variance, covariance, covariancematrix, understanding univariate and multivariate normal distributions, introduction to hypothesis testing, confidenceinterval for estimates)

Week 4:

Optimization Week 5:

1. Optimization

2. Typology of data science problems and a solution framework

Week 6:

1. Simple linear regression and verifying assumptions used in linear regression

2. Multivariate linear regression, model assessment, assessing importance of different variables, subset selection

Week 7:

Classification using logistic regression

Week 8:

Classification using kNN and k-means clustering

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Students Ratings & Reviews

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Koti Dasi
Data Science for Engineers by NPTEL
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5
Learning Experience: Data science for engineers is basic level course those who want start career in Data science. Very well explained and balanced the whole course for beginners. The course covers the contents of, basic programming in R, Linear Algebra, Basics of optimization and algorithms of data science and practical examples. The algorithms covered in course are simple linear regression, multiple linear regression, logistic regression, KNN Algorithm and K means clustering algorithm.
Faculty: Professor Raghunathan Renguswamy Yes, it is comprehensive
Course Support: No as of now
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BHASKAR GANDIKOTA
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Learning Experience: Learning experience was good
Faculty: Instructors taught well Curriculum was relevant and comprehensive
Course Support: Career support was helpful
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Rupesh Kumar
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4
Other: NPTEL is really a good platform for build up my knowledge and getting new skills. I took DATA SCIENCE FOR ENGINEERS course from here and I got 54% mark. Course is much more interesting but lecture is slightly boring. After all this the course is helpful and good.
Reviewed on 26 Jun 2021Read More
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kumar Rohit
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Other: It was a good course to learn about data science and it's working. IIT certified.
Reviewed on 23 Dec 2020Read More
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Sai krishna
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4
Other: I liked their explanation process which is really very very good and it enhanced my skills.
Reviewed on 30 Oct 2020Read More
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