Data Science and Artificial Intelligence

BY
Boston Institute of Analytics

Embrace the next frontier in data driven innovation with a dual certification in data science and artificial intelligence.

Mode

Part time, Online

Duration

4 Months

Fees

₹ 85000

Quick Facts

particular details
Medium of instructions English
Mode of learning Self study, Virtual Classroom +1 more
Mode of Delivery Video and Text Based
Frequency of Classes Weekends

Course overview

This Data Science and Artificial Intelligence course is being offered by the Boston Institute of Analytics (BIA), which is a globally ranked institute known for delivering practical, industry-aligned training. 

This Data Science and Artificial Intelligence course is about 4 months. This Data Science and Artificial Intelligence course integrated core data science skills with cutting edge artificial intelligence techniques including generative AI. The participants engage in hands-on capstone projects, live doubt buster sessions, masterclasses by industry experts and immersive case studies.

The highlights

  • Dual certification
  • Immersive blended learning experience combining classroom and online formats
  • Expert-led training by industry practitioners
  • 15+ industry case studies and assignments
  • Integrated modules combining data science and generative AI
  • Globally recognized dual certification
  • Real-world capstone projects
  • In-person 1:1 career mentorship and interview preparation
  • Flexible no-cost EMI options for payment

Program offerings

  • Real-world projects
  • Expert instructors
  • Peer & alumni community access
  • Doubt clearing sessions
  • Case studies
  • No cost emi options available
  • 4 months course

Course and certificate fees

Fees information
₹ 85,000
certificate availability

Yes

certificate providing authority

Boston Institute of Analytics

Eligibility criteria

The participants must have completed at least a high school diploma or equivalent (degree not strictly required). Also there is no prior work experience required.

What you will learn

Knowledge of python Machine learning Knowledge of deep learning Knowledge of artificial intelligence Knowledge of data visualization

The participants will build a deep foundation in understanding data pipelines, machine learning algorithms and modern artificial intelligence systems. The participants will develop proficiency in python based data manipulation and visualisation, statistical modeling, supervised and unsupervised machine learning, deep learning architectures (e.g. CNNs, RNNs, Transformers) as well as techniques in natural language processing and model deployment.

The participants will explore generative AI paradigms - understanding transformer-based models, fine-tuning large language models, prompt engineering, and deploying generative systems such as chatbots. 

The syllabus

Data Science Course and AI Foundation: Orientation

Welcome and Course Overview
  • Introduction to the Data Science Course
  • Importance of Data Science and AI
Key Concepts Overview
  • Fundamentals of Data Science 
  • Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Software Installation Guidance
  • Installing Anaconda
  • Setting up Jupyter Notebooks
  • Setting-up Power BI and Tableau Account
  • Introduction to Excel Environment
Course Expectations and Structure
  • Overview of the Course Modules 
  • Brief on Assignments and Assessments
Introduction to the Learning Environment
  • Digital Platforms and Resources
  • Communication Channels

Mastering MS Excel

Fundamentals of Excel
  • Overview of Excel Interface 
  • Key Formulas and Functions
  • Ranges and Tables 
  • Data Cleaning – Text Functions, Dates and Times 
  • Conditional Formatting
  • Sorting and Filtering
Advance Excel
  • Pivots
  • Data Analysis in Excel – Trends and Patterns
  • Data Visualization in Excel – Charts and Plots
  • Working With Multiple Worksheets
  • Linking and Referencing the Data Between Worksheets

Python for Data Science

Fundamentals of Python
  • Overview of Python
  • Understanding Statements, Expressions and Indentation
  • Overview of Identifiers, Keywords and Comments
  • Variables: Declaration, Assignment and Naming Conventions
  • Common Data Types: Integers, Floats and Strings
  • Type Casting and Conversion
  • Operators in Python
  • Hands-on Activity
Loops, Functions & Error Handling
  • Loop Control Statements: Break, Continue and Pass
  • Defining and Calling Functions
  • Function Parameters and Return Values
  • Scope of Variables (Global and Local)
  • Advanced Functions
  • Default Values and Variable-Length Arguments
  • Recursive Functions
  • Map, Reduce and Filter
  • Introduction to Exceptions
  • Try, Except and Finally Blocks
  • Handling Common Errors
  • Hands-on Activity
Data Structure: List and Tuple
  • Basic Operations on Lists
  • Demonstration of List Manipulation Techniques
  • Slicing and Indexing in Lists
  • List Comprehension for Concise and Readable Code
  • Tuples Creation
  • Basic Operations on Tuples
  • Slicing And Indexing in Tuples
  • Common Operations on Both Lists and Tuples
  • Hands-on Activity
Data Structure: Dictionary and Sets
  • Basic Operations on Dictionaries
  • Manipulating Dictionaries
  • Dictionary Comprehension for Concise Creation
  • Creation of Sets
  • Manipulating Sets
  • Common Operations on Both Dictionaries and Sets
  • Hands-on Activity
Introduction to Numpy
  • Intro To Numpy and Creating Numpy Array
  • Basic Operations on Arrays
  • Indexing and Slicing
  • Reshaping, Stacking and Splitting
  • Iteration, Filtering and Boolean Indexing
  • Image Processing Using Numpy and Matplotlib
  • Hands-on Activity
Introduction to Pandas and Data Visualization
  • Data Structure in Pandas
  • Creating Dataframe and Loading Files
  • Data Exploration (EDA)
  • Creating and Saving Basic Plots Using Matplotlib
  • Creating Statistical Plots Using Seaborn
  • Exploring Relationships in Data: Pair Plot and Heat Map
  • Hands-on Activity

SQL for Data Science

Introduction to SQL and Querying
  • SQL and Its Significance
  • SQL’S Role in Data Retrieval and Manipulation
  • Select Statement for Data Retrieval
  • Retrieving Specific Columns and All Columns
  • Using Distinct to Remove Duplicates
  • Data Models & ER Diagrams
  • Relational Vs. Transactional Models
  • Organizing Data in Tables
  • Filtering Data with Where Clause
  • Sorting Data with Order By
  • Limiting Results with Limit
  • Using Aliases for Column Names
  • Hands-on Activity
Advanced SQL Concept and Data Manipulation
  • Creating and Using Temporary Tables
  • Adding Comments to SQL Code for Documentation
  • Introduction to Data Modeling
  • Designing A Database Schema
  • Sorting Data with Order By (Advanced)
  • Advanced Filtering (With In, Or, And, Not)
  • Performing Mathematical Operations on Data
  • Introduction to Aggregate Functions (Count, Sum, Avg, Max, Min)
  • Grouping Data with Group By
  • Filtering Grouped Data with Having
  • Understanding Subqueries and Their Types
  • Performing Join Operations (Inner Join, Left Join, Right Join, Full Outer Join)
  • Updating and Deleting Data with SQL
  • Analyzing Data with Statistics
  • Hands-on Activity

Application of Statistics and Probability

Fundamentals of Statistics and Probability
  • Define Statistics and Its Importance
  • Explain The Types of Data: Categorical and Numerical
  • Inferential and Descriptive Statistics
  • Measure Of Central Tendency: Mean, Median, Mode
  • Measure Of Dispersion: Variance and Standard Deviation
  • Probability Basics, It’s Rules and Notation
  • Probability Distribution – Discrete and Continuous
  • Normal Distribution and Properties
  • Central Limit Theorem and Its Importance
  • Skewness and T-Distributions
Advance Statistic and Hypothesis Testing
  • Hypothesis Testing – Null and Alternative
  • Significance Level (Alpha) and P-Value
  • One-Sample and Two-Sample T-Test
  • Visualization Plots for Data Exploration
  • Interpretation of Visualization
  • Correlation and Regression
  • Confidence Interval
  • Hypothesis Testing With Z-Test
  • Chi-Square Test for Categorical Data
  • One-Way and Two-Way Anova

Explore Supervised Machine Learning

Introduction to Machine Learning (ML) and Regression
  • Intro to ML & Its Role in Data Analysis
  • Types of Machine Learning – Supervised, Unsupervised and Reinforcement 
  • Data Pre-processing Methods
  • Feature Scaling
  • Linear Regression as Regression Technique
  • Simple Linear Regression
  • Hands-on Activity
Multiple Linear Regression and Model Evaluation
  • Model Evaluation Metrics for Regression
  • Mean Absolute Error (MAE)
  • Mean Squared Error (MSE)
  • Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE)
  • R-Squared (Coefficient of Determination)
  • Multiple Linear Regression
  • California Housing Dataset – Model Evaluation
  • Hands-on Activity
Logistic Regression and Classification Metrics
  • Overview of Logistic Regression
  • Binary Classification Problem and Logit Function and Odds Ratio
  • Binary & Multi-class LR
  • Classification Matrix: Accuracy, Precision, Recall and F1-Score
  • Confusion Matrix Interpretation
  • ROC Curves & AUC
  • Hands-on Activity
Decision Trees and Ensemble Methods
  • Decision Tree and Its Structure
  • Decision Nodes and Leaf Nodes, Parent/Child Node
  • Splitting Criteria – Gini Impurity and Entropy
  • Tree Pruning and Overfitting
  • Techniques to Prevent Overfitting
  • Random Forest – Ensemble Learning and Bagging
  • Gradient Boosting And AdaBoost Ensemble Method
  • Hands-on Activity
Model Evaluation and Validation Techniques
  • K-Fold Cross-Validation for Model Evaluation
  • Hyper-parameter Tuning Using Grid Search
  • Detailed Coverage of Classification Metrics
  • Precision, Recall, F1-Score, ROC Curves, AUC
  • Interpretation and Practical Usage
  • Hands-on Activity

Explore Unsupervised Machine Learning

Unsupervised Learning
  • K-Means Clustering and Its Applications
  • K-Means Algorithm
  • Choosing the Number of Clusters (K)
  • Introduction to Hierarchical Clustering
  • Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering
  • Hands-on Activity
Support Vector Machines (SVM) and K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN)
  • Classification and Regression with SVM
  • The Concept of Margin and Support Vectors
  • Kernel Trick for Non-Linear Data
  • Introduction to KNN
  • Predictions of KNN Based on Nearest Neighbors
  • Euclidean Distance, Manhattan Distance and Other Distance Metrics
  • Choosing the Value of K
  • Hands-on Activity
Time Series Modeling with ARIMA And SARIMA
  • Understanding Time Series Data
  • ARIMA Model and Its Components
  • Building ARIMA Models
  • Forecasting with ARIMA
  • Seasonal ARIMA (SARIMA) Model and Its Components
  • Building and Forecasting with SARIMA
  • Model Evaluation and Tuning
  • Hands-on Activity

Explore Deep Learning

Introduction to Deep Learning
  • Overview of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs)
  • Neural Network Basics
  • Model Representation in Deep Learning
  • Deep Learning Applications
  • Training Deep Learning Models
  • Building A Simple Artificial Neural Network
  • Hands-on Activity: ANN
  • Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)
  • Hands-on Activity: CNN
Deep Learning Architectures and Training
  • Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs)
  • Recurrent Neurons
  • Vanishing Gradient Problem
  • LSTM and GRU
  • Building and Training RNN
  • Overfitting and Regularization Techniques
  • Dropout and Normalization
  • Model Evaluation, Metrics and Hyper-parameter Techniques
  • Hands-on Activity: RNN, LSTM, GRU

Discover Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Introduction to Natural Language Processing (NLP)
  • Overview of NLP
  • Challenges in NLP
  • Key NLP Tasks
  • Text Preprocessing in NLP
  • NLP Libraries and Frameworks
  • Feature Extraction and Representation
  • Building A Text Classification Model
  • Hands-on Activity
Advanced NLP Techniques
  • Advanced Word Embeddings
  • GLOVE (Global Vectors for Word Representation)
  • N-Grams
  • Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN)
  • Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM)
  • GRU
  • Hands-on Activity

Class Project: Application of ML, Deep Learning and NLP

Data Science Project – 1
  • Introduction – Data Science Workflow
  • Data Collection
  • Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) and Visualization
  • Data Preprocessing
  • Machine Learning Model Development
  • Introduction to Model Deployment
  • Model Deployment Using Streamlit
Data Science Project – 2
  • Introduction to Problem Statement
  • Dataset Overview
  • NLP Model Development
  • Deep Learning Model Development
  • Model Evaluation
  • Model Deployment Using Streamlit

Mastering Data Visualization

Mastering Power BI
  • Introduction to Power BI, Key Features, Installation and Setup
  • Understanding the Power BI Desktop Interface
  • Exploring the Workspace: Ribbons, Panes and Menus
  • Data Transformation
  • Data Modeling: Relationships, Keys and Hierarchies
  • Data Analysis Expressions (DAX), DAX Functions and Calculations
  • Advanced DAX Calculations: Time Intelligence, Filters and Measures
  • Charts and Page Layouts
  • Creating A Power BI Dashboard
  • Publishing and Sharing Reports and Dashboards
  • Hands-on Activity
Mastering Tableau
  • Overview of Tableau Prep
  • Data Connections, Cleaning and Transformation
  • Introduction to Tableau Desktop
  • Data Source Connection and Navigation
  • Visual Analytics – Sorting and Filtering Data Interactivity
  • Working with Calculated Fields
  • Aggregations and Level of Detail (LOD) Expressions
  • Creating Charts and Dashboards in Tableau
  • Hands-on Activity

Mastery in Generative AI (Gen AI)

Introduction to Generative AI, Transformers and LLMs
  • Overview of Generative AI
  • Definition and Key Features of Generative Models
  • Applications of Generative AI Across Various Industries
  • Ethical Considerations and Potential Biases in Generative AI
  • Architecture Overview: Transformers and Their Key Components
  • Pre-Training and Fine-Tuning of LLMs
  • Comparison of Different LLM Models (GPT-3, T5, Jurassic-1 Jumbo)
  • Introduction to Hugging Face and Text Generation/Summarization
  • Setting Up the Environment and Accessing Hugging Face
  • Exploring Pre-Trained LLM Models and Functionalities
  • Implementing Text Generation Tasks Using Transformers and LLMs
  • Experimenting With Text Summarization Techniques with LLMs
  • Analyzing the Strengths and Limitations of Different Approaches
  • Hands-on Activity
Training and Fine-tuning LLMs
  • Fine-Tuning LLMs for Specific Tasks
  • Dataset Preparation and Pre-Processing Techniques
  • Fine-Tuning Hyper-parameter Optimization
  • Evaluating the Performance of Fine-Tuned Models (Bleu and Rouge)
  • Introduction to Retrieve, Augment and Generate (RAG) for Fine-Tuning
  • Hands-On: Fine-Tuning LLM with Custom Data
  • Selection of LLM Models and Dataset
  • Fine-Tuning with Hugging Face Libraries
  • Evaluating and Analyzing the Fine-Tuned Model’s Performance
  • Comparison of Results with The Pre-Trained Model
  • Hands-on Activity
Advanced Fine-tuning and Model Evaluation
  • Advanced Fine-Tuning Techniques
  • Prompt Engineering and Its Impact on Generated Text
  • Exploring Techniques Like Beam Search and Nucleus Sampling
  • Conditional Text Generation Based on Specific Contexts
  • Text-To-Speech and Speech-To-Text Integration with Hugging Face
  • Model Evaluation Techniques
  • Going Beyond Bleu and Rouge: Exploring Advanced Metrics for Different Tasks
  • Qualitative Analysis of Generated Text and Summarization Outputs
  • Importance of Human Evaluation in Generative Models
  • Hands-on: Fine-Tuning with Advanced Techniques and Text-To-Speech/Speech-To-Text
  • Experimenting with Prompt Engineering and Advanced Generation Techniques
  • Implementing Conditional Text Generation Based on Specific Contexts
  • Integrating Text-To-Speech and Speech-To-Text Functionalities
  • Evaluating the Performance of Fine-Tuned Models Using Advanced Metrics
Building a Real-Life Chatbot with Gradio Deployment
  • Real-World Applications of Generative AI
  • Case Studies of Successful LLM Applications in Various Industries
  • Identifying New Opportunities for Generative AI Solutions
  • Ethical Considerations and Responsible Deployment Practices
  • Designing and Developing a Chatbot
  • Defining the Chatbot’s Functionalities and Target Audience
  • Integrating Fine-Tuned LLM Models for Text Generation, Dialogue, and Text-To-Speech/Speech-To-Text
  • Building the Chatbot Interface and User Interaction Flow
  • Implementing and Deploying the Chatbot With Gradio
  • Testing and Evaluating the Chatbot

Capstone Project

Capstone Project Allocation, Mentorship and Presentation
  • Project and Dataset Assignment by Capstone Mentor
  • Orientation Session by Capstone Mentor – Project Expectations
  • Mentorship Session by Capstone Mentor – Doubt Resolutions
  • Project Presentation

Career Enhancement

Soft Skills Training
  • Presentation Skills
  • Email Etiquettes
  • LinkedIn Profile Building
  • Personality Development and Grooming
Interview Preparation
  • Interview Do’s and Don’ts
  • Mock Interviews
  • HR And Technical Interview Prep
  • One-On-One Feedback

Admission details

Follow the steps below to join the Data Science and Artificial Intelligence course.

Step 1 - Click on the link below: https://bostoninstituteofanalytics.org/data-science-and-artificial-intelligence/

Step 2 - Click on “Enquire Now”. Submit the form and your contact details and a representative will contact you.

Step 3 - Once the fees are paid, you are enrolled in the course.

How it helps

After earning this Data Science and Artificial Intelligence certification, the participants can validate their expertise in both foundational analytics and advanced AI. The participants can enhance credibility with explorers, strengthen their resume and unlock access to specialised career opportunities. This Data Science and Artificial Intelligence certification will help participants to stand out in data driven job markets, increase their chances of high paying roles and provide industry-vetted skills that align with current demand.

FAQs

What is the duration of this Data Science and Artificial Intelligence course?

The duration of this Data Science and Artificial Intelligence course is 4 months.

Who can enroll in this Data Science and Artificial Intelligence certification course?

Anyone with a basic high school qualification and strong enthusiasm for data science. There is no prior experience or programming background required.

Do I need to know programming or statistics before joining?

No, the Data Science and Artificial Intelligence course includes foundational modules that bring beginners up to speed.

What tools & technologies will I work with?

The participants will work with Python, Pandas, NumPy, TensorFlow/PyTorch, scikit-learn, Power BI, Tableau, SQL, LLM frameworks (like Hugging Face), and more.

Do you provide placement support?

Yes, the Data Science and Artificial Intelligence course includes 360° career support, resume & interview prep, and access to a job portal.

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