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Course Name Foundations of Data Science

Summary

Pre-Requisite(s): Basic Probability
Course Type: Lab

Course Objectives and Outcomes

Course Objectives

  • Statistical foundations of data science.
  • Techniques to pre-process raw data; (data wrangling, munging) with Numpy, Pandas and other Python statistical packages; visualization with Matplotlb, Plotly and Bokeh; EDA; statistical inferences
  • Predictions using statistical tests
  • Estimation of statistical parameters
  • Introduction to Time Series.

Course Outcomes
CO1: Understand the statistical foundations of data science.
CO2: Apply pre-processing techniques over raw data, conduct exploratory data analysis, create insightful visualizations, and identify patterns to enable further analysis
CO3: Identify machine learning algorithms for prediction/classification and to derive insights
CO4: Analyze the degree of certainty of predictions using statistical test and models.
CO5: Explore the statistical foundations of time series, and employ basic ARIMA models for time series prediction.

CO-PO Mapping

CO PO1 PO2 PO3 PO4 PO5 PO6
CO1 1
CO2 1 1 1 3
CO3 3 1 1 2 3
CO4 3 1 1 2 2
CO5 3 3 1 3 3

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