Final Data Science Course (Practicals)
Final Data Science Course (Practicals)
Course Objectives:
Course Outcomes:
1. Understand the need, benefits, and applications of data science in the context of big data.
2. Recognize the importance of mathematics and statistics as foundational disciplines for data
science.
3. Develop skills in data pre-processing, including handling missing values, data wrangling,
and data visualization.
4. Learn various supervised and unsupervised machine learning techniques for predictive
modelling.
5. Gain proficiency in evaluating and selecting appropriate evaluation metrics for machine
learning models.
6. Apply the concepts and techniques learned in the course to practical scenarios through lab
sessions.
Course Contents:
Lab Sessions:
(For above practicals refer S. C. Gupta, Fundamentals of Statistics, Himalaya Publishing House)
For further practicals, choose any dataset from the following free datasets on the Kaggle.
Datasets:
7. Apple Quality
Apple Quality (kaggle.com)
20. Brain-Spectrograms
Brain-Spectrograms (kaggle.com)
1. Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett, Data Science for Business. O’REILLY publications, 2013.
2. Peter Bruce, Andrew Bruce & Peter Gedeck, Practical Statistics for Data Scientists,
2nd edition.
Reference Books:
1. Peter Bruce, Andrew Bruce & Peter Gedeck, Practical Statistics for Data Scientists,
2nd edition
2. Jiawei Han, Micheline Kamber & Jian Pei, Data Mining, Concepts and Techniques,
3rd edition
3. Ethem Alpaydin, Introduction to Machine Learning, Edition 2, The MIT Press.
4. S. C. Gupta, Fundamentals of Statistics, Himalaya Publishing House