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Quick Facts
| Medium Of Instructions | Mode Of Learning | Mode Of Delivery |
|---|---|---|
| English | Self Study, Virtual Classroom, Campus Based/Physical Classroom | Video and Text Based |
Course Overview
Imparted by IIM Shillong, the Certificate course in Data Science programme has been developed with the objective of training aspiring data scientists and helping them make a career in this field. Now, what is Data Science? Data Science is basically an interdisciplinary field that utilises algorithms, systems, processes, and scientific methods to extract insights and knowledge from unstructured and structured data. The stream of data science is related to big data, machine learning, and data science.
Why is Data Science one of the most preferred fields? Since, Data is something around which the world is revolving and is an indispensable part of the industry, several aspiring students are planning to make a career as Data Scientist. Crafted with utmost finesse and expertise by the industry experts, this online certificate course in Data Science from IIM Shillong has ensured that the vast course is easily covered within a span of 3 months. While undergoing this 140+ hours of intensive learning, the candidates gain exposure to handle toolboxes that data scientists need today.
The Highlights
- 12 Weeks certificate programme
- Exclusively created for working professionals
- Certification by IIM Shillong
- 12 weekend programme
- 140+ hours of intensive learning
- IIM Shillong alumni status
- Capstone projects
- Online sessions from Shillong Campus offline
- Classroom sessions at Guwahati Campus
Programme Offerings
- DIY Sessions
- case based discussions
- hands on lab sessions
- lecture sessions
Courses and Certificate Fees
| Certificate Availability | Certificate Providing Authority |
|---|---|
| yes | IIM Shillong |
- The Certificate Course in Data Science fees is Rs. 60,000 inclusive of taxes.
- No EMI options are available for the course.
- One installment of complete payment needs to be made post-registration
Candidates need to make the payment by following the below-mentioned steps:
Step 1: Candidates need to first fill in the form online. It is essential to register oneself first
Step 2: The registration details will be received on the mobile phone. Now, with the help of those details, candidates need to log in.
Step 3: Then certificate courses in Data Science fees need to be paid.
Step 4: Once the payment is made, take the screenshot of the acknowledgement slip and mail it to ccd@iimshillong.ac.in
Eligibility Criteria
Certification Qualifying Details
Participants will get a certificate only if they have 80% attendance.
What you will learn
After completion of the Certificate Course in Data Science classes participants will master the following concepts:
- Candidates will build and gain expertise in handling unstructured and structured data.
- In-depth learning and knowledge of concepts of NLP/Deep learning and Machine learning.
- Prepare themselves and be confident in facing interviews pertaining to Data Science Jobs
- Readiness to convert any business complexities into a data science problem and further find a solution out of it.
- Be learned about machine learning techniques in R and Python.
Who it is for
Candidates applying for a certification programme in Data Science in IIm Shillong must be:
- Data Science Professionals
Application Details
Candidates need to follow the process below for applying to this programme:
Step 1: Candidates need to click on the website URL https://www.iimshillong.ac.in/ccds/ccds.html
Step 2: Click on the Tab Brochure and Application.
Step 3. Click on the Tab ‘For Application Form’.
Step 4: An admission form will appear which needs to be filled and downloaded.
Step 5: The candidates need to then proceed with fee payment. A receipt will be generated which needs to be saved.
Step 5: After the form is saved, candidates need to email this application form along with the payment receipt to the given email address.
Step 6: On receiving, the officials will give a confirmation for the same.
The Syllabus
- Data summaries and descriptive statistics, central tendency, variance, covariance, correlation
- Probability distribution functions—uniform, normal, binomial, chi-square, student’s t-distribution, Central limit theorem
- Hypothesis testing, A/B testing, confidence intervals, p-values
- ANOVA, t-test
- Sampling, measurement, error, random number generation
- Linear regression, regularization
- Linear Programming
- Basic probability: basic idea, expectation, probability calculus, Bayes theorem, conditional probability
- Introduction to formatting in Excel
- Pivot table, pivot chart
- Writing formula
- What-if analysis, scenario analysis, two-way table, goal-seeking
- Writing functions: text, date/ time, finance, math and statistics, logical, lookup and reference
- Monte Carlo Simulation
- Excel Chart, conditional formatting, data presentation and visualization
- Modeling business scenarios
- Basic database terminology
- INSERT Statement
- UPDATE Statement
- Loading database in SQL
- DELETE Statement
- Aggregate functions
- Joins
- Subqueries
- Views
- SELECT Statement
- Basic Computations in R
- Data Types in R
- Useful R Packages
- Data Manipulation in R
- Exploratory Data Analysis in R
- Control Structures in R
- Python data types
- Operation on Numpy arrays
- Introduction to Numpy
- Data Visualization with Matplotlib and Seaborn
- Control structures and functions
- Time Series data Analysis
- Forecasting methods
- Classification methods
- Recommendation Engines Program Curriculum
- Clustering methods
- Association Mining
- Neural networks Basics
- HyperParameter Tuning
- Transfer learning and FineTuning
- Convolutional Neural Networks
- Recurrent Neural Networks
- AutoEncoders and Embeddings
- LSTM
- Basic NLP Pipeline
- POS Tagging
- Named Entity Recognition
- Text classification
- Text Pre-processing
- Feature engineering on Text data
- Sentiment analysis
- Capstone project
IIM Shillong Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)
Evaluations are either done online or when a candidate visits the campus. The evaluation is based on the participation of candidates in assignments, class, projects and examinations.
If a participant couldn’t appear for the exam or didn’t meet the criteria for attendance or was unable to complete the programme due to any reason they can rejoin by paying the requisite fee with one of the next two batches. And if a participant is unable to complete even within the next two batches, the admission will stand cancelled.
Yes campus visits are mandatory for the candidate to successfully complete the programme.
On successful completion with all the given requirements of the programme a certificate will be received. The evaluation and examinations in relation to the certificate are carried out by IIM Calcutta
The process is highly interactive which will incorporate expansive methods of teaching and approaches. The teaching is filled with case studies, discussions and corporate examples.