Executive PG Programme in

DATA SCIENCE
Get the Whole Picture
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Table of
Contents
2 About upGrad

3 Why upGrad?

4 Program Highlights

5 Faculty and Industry Experts

7 upGrad Learning Experience

9 Industry Projects

10 Learning Path

11 Executive PG Programme Curriculum

25 Meet the Class

26 Career Support

27 Our Alumni Work at

28 Career Transitions

30 Experience upGrad Offline

31 Hear from our Learners

33 Program Details and Admission Process

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About
upGrad
upGrad has delivered over 20 million hours of
learning, delivering programs by collaborating
with universities across the world including Duke
CE, IIT Madras, IIIT Bangalore and Deakin Business
School among others.

Online education is a fundamental disruption IIITB is a renowned university offering

that will have a far-reaching impact. programs specialising in data science,
upGrad was founded taking this into machine learning and artificial intelligence.
consideration. upGrad is an online education The IIITB faculty includes an average of
platform to help individuals develop their 15+ years of experience.
professional potential in the most engaging
learning environment. The faculty covers the conceptual depths
of topics such as Data Science, Machine
Since inception, upGrad has delivered Learning and Artificial Intelligence,
over 20 million hours of learning, delivering and Big Data Analytics. These will be
programs by collaborating with universities complemented by industry relevant case
across the world including Duke CE, studies from major industry verticals by
IIT Madras, IIIT Bangalore and Deakin industry leaders with 8+ years of experience
Business School among others. from upGrad’s industry network.

upGrad is focused on helping working Furthermore, our strong placement

professionals in their bid to learn, grow network, industry mentorship and the
and move up in their career through a credibility of a Executive PG Programme
wide-range of programs designed to will provide you with just the right push to
improve their expertise. accelerate your career in Data Science!
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85+
Countries Learners Base

Why
upGrad?
400%
Highest Hike

58%
Avg Salary Hike

300+
Hiring Partners

30,000+
Learners

700+
Industry Experts
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Program
Highlights
Executive PG Programme from IIITB
and Alumni Status
Get certified by IIITB and gain alumni
Equivalent to NSQF level 8 status on successful completion of the
-
Do an Executive PG Programme from program.
IIITB that satisfies NSQF level 8 criterion

Dedicated Career Assistance

Receive 360 degree career
support from mock interviews
with hiring managers, resume
building, career fairs, industry
mentors and much more.

For the Industry, by the Industry

Learn from 60+ Industry case
studies & Projects and in-
6 Specialisations
dustry experts who mentor
Choose from 6 specializations
you throughout the program.
on the basis of your background
and career aspirations and get
the learning you want.

Personalised Mentorship
Get unparalleled personalised
mentorship and doubt resolution
from IIITB faculty and our panel of
industry experts.

Blended Learning
Learn with the ease and flexibility
of recorded sessions as well as
live sessions, designed to ensure NASSCOM future skill certification
a wholesome learning experience. India’s first Executive PG Programme
validated by and recommended by
NASSCOM. Avail a participation certificate
from NASSCOM on successful program
completion.
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Faculty and Industry

Experts

Hindol Basu Chandrashekar Ramanathan S. Anand

CEO, Actify Data Labs Dean Academics, IIITB CEO, Gramener

An alumnus of IIT and IIM with over 13 Prof. Chandrashekar has a PhD from A gold medallist from IIM Bangalore,
years of experience in analytics with Mississippi State University and an alumnus of IIT Madras and London
industry leaders such as Citigroup and experience of over 10 years in several Business School, Anand is among the
Tata Industries. multinational organisations. top 10 data scientists in India with 20
years of experience.

Tricha Anjali Sameer Dhanrajani Prof. S. Sadagopan

Former Associate Dean, IIITB Co-Founder and CEO, AIQRATE Director, IIITB

Prof. Anjali has a PhD from Georgia Sameer Dhanrajani is an AI and Prof. Sadagopan is currently  Direc-
Institute of Technology as well as an Analytics evangelist for Fortune 500 tor (President) of IIITB. He has a MS
integrated MTech (EE) from IIT Bombay. companies who has won several and a PhD from Purdue University
industry awards in the field of analytics. as well as a BE (Hons.) Degree from
Madras University.
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Prof. G. Srinivasaraghavan Ujjyaini Mitra Dinesh Babu Jayagopi

Professor, IIITB Head of Analytics, Zee5 Associate Professor, IIITB

Prof. Srinivasaraghavan has a PhD An alumna of McKinsey and Co., Prof. Dinesh has a PhD from EPFL 
in Computer Science from IIT-K Flipkart, and Bharti Airtel with over 11 Switzerland, MSc from IISc Bangalore in
and 18 years of experience with years of experience. System Science and Signal Processing
Infosys Technologies and several other and BTech.
companies.

Kalpana Subbaramappa Ankit Jain Sajan Kedia

Ex-AVP, Genpact Sr. Research Scientist, Uber Lead Data Scientist (Pricing), Myntra

Kalpana is the ex-AVP  of Decision An alumnus of IIT Bombay, UCB and An alumnus of IIT with over 7 years of
Sciences at Genpact with over 20 years Harvard Business School with over 9 experience at Watson at IBM Research,
of experience. years of experience. startups and Myntra.

Mirza Rahim Baig Bijoy Kumar Khandelwal

Lead Business Analytics, Flipkart COO, Actify Data Labs

Advanced Analytics professional Bijoy comes with a deep understanding

with 8+ years of experience as a of the private and cloud architectures
consultant in the e-commerce and and has helped numerous companies
healthcare domains. make the transition.
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upGrad Learning
Experience
Coaching
• Student Support Team & upGrad Buddy
• Weekly real-time doubt clearing sessions
• Live Discussion forum for peer-to-peer doubt
resolution monitored by technical experts
• Peer-to-peer networking opportunities with an
alumni pool of 10,000+
• Lab walk-throughs of 25+ industry-driven case
studies
• 6 Employability Tests for industry readiness
• Access to the program for up to 3 years

Mentorship
60+ live interactive sessions with
industry experts, fortnightly personalised
group (1:8) mentorship sessions with in-
dustry experts for pro-active mentoring.

Format
Online format with weekly live sessions
from industry experts to help with
topic walk-throughs, doubt resolution Hands-On Projects and Hackathons
and personalised project feedback. 60+ Industry case studies & projects
Offline sessions such as Basecamps to choose from as well as a Capstone
and Hackathons. Project to apply learnings.
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New
Additions
Introduction of a new specialization - Data Science Generalist
1. Specially designed for learners with 0 to 5 years of experience to
become job ready.

2. Additional Live sessions, Practice Questions, Quizzes, Career Es-

sentials to be conducted

3. Curriculum Focus Areas: Database, Visualization, Classical Machine

Learning, Data Structures & Algorithms

Career Essential Soft-skills Program

1. Excel your personal & professional life with upGrad’s Soft Skills
Program

2. Study Three fundamental Skills - Interview & Job Search, Corporate

& Business Communication and Problem Solving

3. Get access to 40+ learner hours of soft skills content delivered by the
best faculty & Industry experts

30-Hour Programming Bootcamp for Non-Tech Learners

1. Non-tech background? No need to fear of Programming anymore

2. A 30-hour Python Programming bootcamp focusing on develop-

ing Basic + Intermediate Python Programming Concepts to assist
non-tech learners.

3. A blended learning experience delivered via Interactive live ses-

sions and assessments
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Industry
Projects

IMDb Movie Analysis Uber Supply-Demand Gap Lead Scoring Fraud Detection

Creditworthiness of Speech Recognition Image Captioning Gesture Recognition

Customers

SHOP

Social Media Listening Telecom Churn Interactive Market Retail Giant Sales
Campaign Analysis Forecasting

And many more!

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Learning
Path
Preparatory Course Data Toolkit Machine Learning
2 weeks 14 weeks 9 weeks
Tools: Python, Excel Tools: Python, Excel, Tools: Python, Excel
mySQL

Choose any of the

6 Specialisations
25 weeks (with 6 weeks of Capstone)

Data Science Natural Language Deep Learning Business Analytics Business Intelligence/ Data Engineering
Generalist Processing Tools: Python, Excel, Tools: Python, Data Analytics Tools: Hadoop,
Tools: Python, Tools: Python, Excel TensorFlow mySQL, Excel Tools: Python, Power HBase, Sqoop,
Tableau, SQL BI, Excel, mySQL, Mon- Hive, Flume,
goDB, Shiny, Tableau PySpark, Spark,
Airflow

Executive PG Executive PG Executive PG Executive PG Executive PG Executive PG

Programme in Programme in Programme in Programme in Programme in Data Programme in
Data Science Data Science Data Science Data Science Science Data Science
(Data Science (Natural Language (Deep Learning) (Business (Business (Data Engineering)
Generalist) Processing) Analytics) Intelligence/ Data
Analytics)
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Executive PG Programme
in Data Science
C O MM O N C U RRICU LU M
PRE-PROGRAM PREPARATORY CONTENT

1
DATA ANALYSIS IN EXCEL
Taught by one of the most renowned data scientists in the country (S.Anand, CEO, Gramener), this
module takes you from a beginner level Excel user to an almost professional user.

2
ANALYTICS PROBLEM SOLVING
This module covers concepts of the CRISP-DM framework for business problem-solving.

TOOLS COVERED: EXCEL

DATA TOOLKIT

1
2 ASSIGNMENTS
INTRODUCTION TO PYTHON - I
Build a foundation for the most in-demand programming language of the 21st century.

2 INTRODUCTION TO PYTHON - II
Learn to apply some of the commonly used paradigms of functional programming in Python.

3 PROGRAMMING IN PYTHON
Learn how to approach and solve logical problems using programming.

4 DATA ANALYSIS USING SQL

Data in companies is definitely not stored in excel sheets! Learn the fundamentals of database and
extract information from RDBMS using the structured query language.

5 PYTHON FOR DATA SCIENCE

Learn how to manipulate datasets in Python using Pandas which is the most powerful library for data
preparation and analysis.

6 VISUALIZATION IN PYTHON
Humans are visual learners and hence no task related to data is complete without visualisation. Learn
to plot and interpret various graphs in Python and observe how they make data analysis and drawing
insights easier.

7 EXPLORATORY DATA ANALYSIS

Learn how to find and analyse the patterns in the data to draw actionable insights.

8 IMDB MOVIE ASSIGNMENT

Reinforce the concepts learnt in data science through this rigorous assignment involving the past
hundred years of movie data.

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9 MATHS FOR DATA SCIENCE

Build the mathematical foundation required for understanding the Machine Learning Algorithms.

10
INFERENTIAL STATISTICS
Build a strong statistical foundation and learn how to ‘infer’ insights from a huge population using a
small sample.

11 HYPOTHESIS TESTING
Understand how to formulate and validate hypotheses for a population to solve real-life business
problems.

12
ADVANCED SQL
Apply advanced SQL concepts like windowing and procedures to derive insights from data and answer
pertinent business questions.

13
CREDIT EDA CASE STUDY
Solve a real industry problem through the concepts learnt in exploratory data analysis.

TOOLS COVERED: PYTHON, MYSQL, EXCEL

MACHINE LEARNING 3 ASSIGNMENTS

1
INTRODUCTION TO MACHINE LEARNING AND LINEAR REGRESSION
Venture into the machine learning community by learning how one variable can be predicted using
several other variables through a housing dataset where you will predict the prices of houses based
on various factors.

2
LINEAR REGRESSION ASSIGNMENT - BIKE SHARING SYSTEMS
Build a model to understand the factors on which the demand for bike sharing systems vary on and
help a company optimise its revenue.

3
LOGISTIC REGRESSION
Learn your first binary classification technique by determining which customers of a telecom operator
are likely to churn versus who are not to help the business retain customers.

4
UNSUPERVISED LEARNING: CLUSTERING
Learn how to group elements into different clusters when you don’t have any pre-defined labels to
segregate them through K-means clustering, hierarchical clustering, and more.

5
BUSINESS PROBLEM SOLVING
Learn how to approach open ended real world problems using data as a lever to draw actionable
insights.

6
CLUSTERING ASSIGNMENT (OPTIONAL)
Apply the machine learning concepts learnt to help an internation NGO cluster countries to
determine their overall development and plan for lagging countries.

7
CASE STUDY: LEAD SCORING
Help the Sales team of your company identify which leads are worth pursuing through this classification
case study.

TOOLS COVERED: PYTHON

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S P E C I A LI SAT ION 1 :
DATA SC IEN C E GEN E RALIST
ADVANCED MACHINE LEARNING
AND STORYTELLING 3 ASSIGNMENTS

1
TREE MODELS + BOOSTING (OPTIONAL)
Learn how the human decision making process can be replicated using a decision tree and other
powerful ensemble algorithms.

2
MODEL SELECTION & GENERAL ML TECHNIQUES
Learn the pros and cons of simple and complex models and the different methods for quantifying model
complexity, alongwith general machine learning techniques like feature engineering, model evaluation,
and many more.

3 ML LAB I: CLASSIFICATION

4
PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS
Understand important concepts related to dimensionality reduction, the basic idea and the
learning algorithm of PCA, and its practical applications on supervised and unsupervised
problems.

5
ADVANCED REGRESSION - I
In this module, take a more advanced look at regression models and learn the concepts related
to regularization.

6 ADVANCED REGRESSION - II &

ML LAB II: REGRESSION

7 TEXT ANALYTICS & PROCESSING + TEXT-BASED PREDICTIVE MODELLING

An introduction to the world of NLP and basic text processing skills. Learn how to build a classification
engine that works on (unstructured) textual data.

8 BASIC VISUALISATION USING TABLEAU

Learn advanced visualisation techniques using the most in-demand visualization tool in the industry.

9
DATA STORYTELLING
Learn how to effectively strategise, communicate, and fine grain your data analysis projects and under-
stand how to optimally present your findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders and upgrade
your storytelling skills.

10 BUSINESS CASE STUDY

TOOLS COVERED: PYTHON, TABLEAU

ADVANCED PROGRAMMING AND DATABASES 2 ASSIGNMENTS

1 DATA MODELLING
In this module, you will learn and use data modelling on a dataset to solve a business problem.

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2 SQL WEEKLONG LAB

3
ADVANCED SQL - WEEK II
Apply advanced SQL concepts like windowing and procedures to derive insights from data and answer
pertinent business questions

ALGORITHM ANALYSIS + RECURSION

4 Learn how to assess the efficiency your code using algorithm analysis techniques and learn to write
recursive algorithms

5
SEARCHING AND SORTING (DIVIDE AND CONQUER INCLUDED)
Learn most fundamental searching and sorting algorithms and design techniques

6
DATA STRUCTURES - SETS, DICTIONARIES, STACKS, QUEUES
Learn user defined data structures -Stack, Queue, Trees in Python that help in advanced data
manipulation

7
PYTHON - OOPS
Learn OOP concepts such as Class, Object, Method, Inheritance, Polymorphism,
Data Abstraction and Encapsulation.

8 PYTHON WEEKLONG LAB

TOOLS COVERED: PYTHON, SQL

CAPSTONE PROJECT

1
CAPSTONE PROJECT
Solve an end-to-end real-life industry problem from a wide variety of domains. Make a video presen-
tation of your working demo to showcase in your portfolio.

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S PE C I A L I SAT ION 2 :
NAT URA L LA N GUAGE P ROCE SSIN G
ADVANCED MACHINE LEARNING 2 ASSIGNMENTS

1 TREE MODELS
Learn how the human decision making process can be replicated using a decision tree and other
powerful ensemble algorithms.

2 MODEL SELECTION & GENERAL ML TECHNIQUES

Learn the pros and cons of simple and complex models and the different methods for quantifying model
complexity, alongwith general machine learning techniques like feature engineering, model evaluation,
and many more.

3 PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS

Understand important concepts related to dimensionality reduction, the basic idea and the learning
algorithm of PCA, and its practical applications on supervised and unsupervised problems.

4 ADVANCED REGRESSION
In this module, take a more advanced look at regression models and learn the concepts related to
regularization.

5 ADVANCED REGRESSION ASSIGNMENT

Build a regularized regression model to understand the most important variables to predict the house
prices in Australia.

6
BAGGING AND BOOSTING
Learn about ensemble modelling through bagging and boosting and understand how weak algorithms
can be transformed into stronger ones.

7 TIME SERIES ANALYSIS

In this module, you will learn how to analyse and forecast a series that varies with time.

8 TELECOM CHURN CASE STUDY

Solve the most crucial business problem for a leading telecom operator in India and southeast Asia -
predicting customer churn.

TOOLS COVERED: PYTHON

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING 2 ASSIGNMENTS

1
LEXICAL PROCESSING
Do you get annoyed by the constant spams in yor mail box? Wouldn’t it be nice if we had a program
to check your spellings? In this module learn how to build a spell checker & spam detector using tech-
niques like phonetic hashing,bag-of-words, TF-IDF, etc.

2
SYNTACTIC PROCESSING
Learn how to analyse the syntax or the grammatical structure of sentences using POS tagging and
Dependency parsing.

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3 SYNTACTIC PROCESSING -ASSIGNMENT

Use the techniques such as POS tagging and Dependency parsing to extract information from unstruc-
tured text data.

4 SEMANTIC PROCESSING
Learn the most interesting area in the field of NLP and understand different techniques like word-em-
beddings, topic modelling to build an application that extracts opinions about socially relevant issues.

5
CASE STUDY: CLASSIFYING CUSTOMER COMPLAINT TICKETS
In this case study you will create a solution that will help in identifying the type of complaint ticket raised
by the customers of a multinational bank.

CAPSTONE

1 DEPLOYMENT
Learn how to productionize your model and deploy it on the server.

2
CAPSTONE
Choose from a range of real-world industry woven projects on advanced topics like Recommendation
Systems, Fraud Detection, Emotion Detection from faces, Social Media Listening, Speech Recognition
among many others.

S P E C I A LI SAT ION 3:
DEE P LEA RN I N G

ADVANCED MACHINE LEARNING 2 ASSIGNMENTS

1
Tree Models
Learn how the human decision making process can be replicated using a decision tree and other
powerful ensemble algorithms.

2
MODEL SELECTION & GENERAL ML TECHNIQUES
Learn the pros and cons of simple and complex models and the different methods for quantifying model
complexity, alongwith general machine learning techniques like feature engineering, model evaluation,
and many more.

3 PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS

Understand important concepts related to dimensionality reduction, the basic idea and the learning
algorithm of PCA, and its practical applications on supervised and unsupervised problems.

4
ADVANCED REGRESSION
In this module, take a more advanced look at regression models and learn the concepts related to
regularisation.

*The Curriculum is subject to change as per the inputs from university or industry experts
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5
ADVANCED REGRESSION ASSIGNMENT
Build a regularized regression model to understand the most important variables to predict the house
prices in Australia.

6
BAGGING AND BOOSTING
Learn about ensemble modelling through bagging and boosting and understand how weak algorithms
can be transformed into stronger ones.

7
TIME SERIES ANALYSIS
In this module, you will learn how to analyse and forecast a series that varies with time.

8 TELECOM CHURN CASE STUDY

Solve the most crucial business problem for a leading telecom operator in India and southeast
Asia - predicting customer churn.

TOOLS COVERED: PYTHON

DEEP LEARNING AND NEURAL NETWORKS 2 ASSIGNMENTS

1
INTRODUCTION TO NEURAL NETWORKS
Learn the most sophisticated and cutting-edge technique in machine learning - Artificial Neural Net-
works or ANNs.

2
NEURAL NETWORKS ASSIGNMENT
Build a neural network from scratch in Numpy to identify handwritten digits.

3
CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS - INTRODUCTION AND INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS
Learn the basics of CNN and OpenCV and apply it to Computer Vision tasks like detecting anomalies
in chest X-Ray scans, vehicle detection to count & categorise them to help the government ascertain
the width and strength of the road.

4
RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS
Ever wondered what goes behind machine translation, sentiment analysis, speech recognition? Learn
how RNN helps in these areas having sequential data like text, speech, videos, and a lot more.

5
GESTURE RECOGNITION
Make a Smart TV system which can control the TV with user’s hand gestures as the remote control.

TOOLS COVERED: PYTHON, TENSORFLOW, KERAS, OPENCV

CAPSTONE

1 DEPLOYMENT
Learn how to productionize your model and deploy it on the server.

2 CAPSTONE
Choose from a range of real-world industry woven projects on advanced topics like Recommendation
Systems, Fraud Detection, Emotion Detection from faces, Social Media Listening, Speech Recognition

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S PE C I A L I SAT I ON 4 :
Bu siness A na lytics
ADVANCED MACHINE LEARNING 2 ASSIGNMENTS

1 TREE MODELS
Learn how the human decision making process can be replicated using a decision tree and other
powerful ensemble algorithms.

2 TIME SERIES FORECASTING

In this module, you will learn how to analyse and forecast a series that varies with time.

3 RETAIL-GIANT SALES FORECASTING ASSIGNMENT

Apply the concepts learnt in time series to solve a forecasting problem for a retail giant.

4
MODEL SELECTION & GENERAL ML TECHNIQUES
Learn the pros and cons of simple and complex models and the different methods for quantifying model
complexity, alongwith general machine learning techniques like feature engineering, model evaluation,
and many more.

5 SQL BEST PRACTICES

Learn how to write optimized SQL query that require less memory and execute in lesser amount of time.

6 ADVANCED EXCEL
Learn the advanced concepts in Excel and start to perform data analysis like a pro!

7 TELECOM CHURN CASE STUDY

Solve the most crucial business problem for a leading telecom operator in India and southeast Asia -
predicting customer churn.

TOOLS COVERED: PYTHON, MYSQL,EXCEL

BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS 2 ASSIGNMENTS

STRUCTURED PROBLEM SOLVING USING FRAMEWORKS

1
Learn how to attack a business problem using various structured frameworks like 5W, 5WHYs, and
SPIN.

STRUCTURED PROBLEM SOLVING ASSIGNMENT

2 Apply your learnings from the course to solve a real-life business problem.

OPERATIONS RESEARCH

3 Learn about the world of operations research through linear and integer optimisations.

DATA STORYTELLING

4 Learn how to effectively strategise, communicate, and fine grain your data analysis projects and under-
stand how to optimally present your findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders and upgrade
your storytelling skills.

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5 OPERATIONS RESEARCH CASE STUDY

Understand how a project in the industry is taken up and solved through a comprehensive business
case study.

TOOLS COVERED: PYTHON, EXCEL

CAPSTONE PROJECT 5 ASSIGNMENTS

1 CAPSTONE PROJECT
Solve an end-to-end real-life industry problem from a wide variety of domains. Available capstone
project choices -
(i) Stock Analysis & Portfolio Management
(ii) E-Commerce & Marketing
(iii) Heatlhcare
(iv) Supply Chain Optimisation
(v) Credit Card Fraud Detection

TOOLS COVERED: PYTHON, EXCEL, TABLEAU

S P E C I A L I SAT I ON 5 :
BUS INESS IN TELLIGE N CE / DATA AN ALY TICS
SQL AND NOSQL DATABASES 2 ASSIGNMENTS

1 DATA MODELLING
In this module, you will learn and use data modelling on a dataset to solve a business problem.

2 SQL BEST PRACTICES

Learn how to write optimized SQL query that require less memory and execute in lesser amount of time.

3 SQL ASSIGNMENT: IMDB MOVIES

In this assignment, you will work on a movies dataset using SQL to extract exciting insights.

4 ADVANCED EXCEL
Learn the advanced concepts in Excel and start to perform data analysis like a pro!”

5
NOSQL DATABASES AND BEST PRACTICES
Take your knowledge of query languages a step further by learning about MongoDB - a NoSQL data-
base which is becoming more and more popular in the industry.

6
INTRODUCTION TO BIG DATA AND CLOUD
Understand the basics of big data and cloud and learn to work with an EMR cluster on a cloud-based
service.

7 HIVE AND QUERYING

In this module, you learn about the architecture and features of the Hive Query Language.

8 HIVE CASE STUDY

Understand how a project in the industry is taken up and solved through a comprehensive business
case study.

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TOOLS COVERED: MYSQL, MONGODB, AWS, HQL

STORYTELLING WITH ADVANCED VISUALISATIONS 2 ASSIGNMENTS

1 VISUALISATION USING TABLEAU

Learn advanced visualisation techniques using the most in-demand visualization tool in the industry.

2 SPORTS ANALYTICS - IPL VISUALISATION ASSIGNMENT

Apply the new found Excel and Tableau skills to solve an exciting business assignment.

3
VISUALISATION USING POWERBI
Take your visualization game a step forward by understanding how to operate PowerBI.

4 VISUALISATION USING PLOTLY

Get a brief introduction to another popular open-sourced visualisation library in Python and
learn to code and create powerful, pretty, and interactive visualisations.

5 DATA STORYTELLING
Learn how to effectively strategise, communicate, and fine grain your data analysis projects and
understand how to optimally present your findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders
and upgrade your storytelling skills.

6 PLOTLY CASE STUDY

Understand how a project in the industry is taken up and solved through a comprehensive
business case study.

TOOLS COVERED: TABLEAU, POWERBI

CAPSTONE PROJECT 5 ASSIGNMENTS

1 CAPSTONE PROJECT
Solve an end-to-end real-life industry problem from a wide variety of domains. Available capstone
project choices -

(i) Web & Social Media Analytics

(ii) Finance and Risk Analytics
(iii) Marketing and Retail Analytics
(iv) Supply Chain Analytics
(v) Fraud Analytics

TOOLS COVERED: TABLEAU, PYTHON, EXCEL

S PE C I A L I SAT ION 6 :
DATA EN GIN EERIN G
DATA ENGINEERING I 4 ASSIGNMENTS (1 Mandatory, 3 optional)

1 INTRODUCTION TO BIG DATA(OPTIONAL)

This module you will learn what big data is, its various characteristics, and its determining factors. You
will also get an idea of the various sources of big data and the wide range of big data applications in
different industries such as retail, healthcare, and finance.

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2 INTRODUCTION TO CLOUD AND AWS SETUP

Understand what is cloud and setup your AWS account which will be required duing the program.

3 INTRODUCTION TO HADOOP AND MAPREDUCE PROGRAMMING

Understand the world of distributed data processing and storage with Hadoop. Learn to write Ma-
pReduce jobs in Python.

4
MAPREDUCE PROGRAMMING ASSIGNMENT (OPTIONAL)
Practise MapReduce Programming on a Big Dataset.

5
DATA MANAGEMENT AND RELATIONAL DATABASE MODELLING
Understand the concepts of Data Management and learn to model data from a Relational Database.

6 NOSQL DATABASES AND APACHE HBASE

NOSQL DATABASES AND MONGODB(OPTIONAL)
Learn the concepts of NoSQL databases. Understand the working of Apache HBase.

7 DATA WAREHOUSING (OPTIONAL)

Understand the intricacies behind designing a data warehouse and a data lake for use case/s.

8 DATA INGESTION WITH APACHE SQOOP AND APACHE FLUME

Get familiar with the challenges involed in data ingestion. Use Sqoop and Flume to ingest structured
and unstructured data into Hadoop.

9 HIVE & QUERYING

Manage and query a data warehouse with Apache Hive. Learn to write optimized HQL for large
scale data analysis.

10
HIVE ASSIGNMENT (OPTIONAL)
Use HQL to analyse a Big Dataset

11 AMAZON REDSHIFT
Learn to deploy a Redshift cluster and use it for querying data.

12
INTRODUCTION TO APACHE SPARK
Get introduced to Apache Spark, a lighting fast big data processing engine.

13
NYC PARKING ASSIGNMENT (OPTIONAL)
Practise Apache Spark and its core libraries on the NYC Parking Ticket dataset.

14
PROJECT: ETL DATA PIPLINE
Make use of Sqoop, Redshift & Spark to design an ETL data pipeline.

TOOLS COVERED: AWS EC2, CLOUDERA DISTRIBUTION OF HADOOP, APACHE HA-

DOOP, APACHE MAPREDUCE, APACHE HBASE, MONGODB, APACHE SQOOP, APACHE
FLUME, APACHE HIVE, AMAZON REDSHIFT, APACHE SPARK, MYSQL, AMAZON RED-
SHIFT

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DATA ENGINEERING - II 3 ASSIGNMENTS (1 Mandatory, 2 optional)

1 OPTIMISING SPARK FOR LARGE SCALE DATA PROCESSING

Use PySpark to create large scale data processing applications.

2 APACHE FLINK(OPTIONAL)
Get Introduced to Apahce Flink and learn query batch data. Use DataStream API to create a stream
processing application.

3 REAL-TIME DATA STREAMING WITH APACHE KAFKA

Understand the producer-consumer architecture of Apache Kafka. Learn to set up a Kafka cluster for
managing real-time data.

4
REAL-TIME DATA PROCESSING USING SPARK STREAMING
Learn about the real-time data processing architecture of Apache Spark. Build Spark Streaming appli-
cations to process data in real-time.

5 STOCK DATA ANALYSIS ASSIGNMENT (OPTIONAL)

This assignment revolves around building Spark structured streaming application to processing stock
data in real-time.

6 BUILDING AUTOMATED DATA PIPELINES WITH AIRFLOW

Automate Data Pipelines with Airflow.

7 ANALYTICS USING PYSPARK

Use PySpark to do EDA and Predictive Analysis using Spark’s ML library.

8
CLASSIFICATION ASSIGNMENT (OPTIONAL)
An assignment related to a classification based problem statement.

9 PROJECT: REAL TIME DATA PROCESSING

Build an end-to-end real-time data processing application using Spark Streaming and Kafka.

TOOLS COVERED: APACHE SPARK, APACHE FLINK, APACHE KAFKA, APACHE SPARK
STREAMING, APACHE AIRFLOW, APACHE SPARK

CAPSTONE PROJECT 4 ASSIGNMENTS

1 CAPSTONE PROJECT
The capstone project will stich all the components of data engineering together.

TOOLS COVERED: APACHE SPARK, MYSQL, HIVE, APACHE SQOOP, SPARK STREAM-
ING, APACHE KAFKA, PYTHON

*The Curriculum is subject to change as per the inputs from university or industry experts
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12 Months | Online INR 2,99,000 (Incl. of all taxes.)

PROGRAM START DATES ELIGIBILITY

Please refer to the website for program start dates. Bachelor’s Degree with 50% or equivalent passing
www.upgrad.com/data-science-pgd-iiitb/ marks. No coding experience required.

WEEKLY COMMITMENT (12-15 hours/week)

6-7 HOURS 6-7 HOURS 1 LIVE SESSION

Asynchronous learning time. Assignments and projects. Every two weeks.

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STEP 1: Selection Test STEP 2: Review and Shortlisting of STEP 3: Enrollment for Access
Fill out an application and take a Suitable Candidates to Prep Content
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