Al Engineer Roadmap for Beginners Following is the roadmap to learning Al Engineer (also known as ML Engineer) skills for a total beginner. It includes FREE learning resources for technical skills (or tool skills) and soft (or core) skills B Prerequisites: You must have skills or interests to build skills in Coding and Math. Without these two you cannot become an Al engineer. Total Duration: 8 Months (4 hours of study Every Day) Also, Al Engineer = Data Scientist + Software Engineer SODE Al Engineer Tool Skills vs Core Skills C) rd Cr coc ia) re fei fe aae a Cc Week 0: Do Proper Research and protect yourself from SCAMS. Unfortunately, a lot of systematic scams are happening in ed tech, especially in the data field where aspirants are provided with false promises like a 100% job guarantee or trapped into "Masterclasses" which are nothing but sales pitches to upsell their low-grade courses at exorbitant prices. You need to do complete research about the market and mentors before starting your journey. Providing you the links to a few posts that we have made in this regard which will support your research. Even though these posts are NOT sufficient, do your additional research. codeba:© https://bitly/4atQJaw © https://bit.ly/477100s © https://bitly/3GPD7dp Week 1 and 2: Computer Science Fundamentals + Topics © Data representation: Bits and Bytes, Storing text and numbers, Binary number system. © Basics of computer networks, IP addresses, Internet routing protocol © UDP, TCP, HTTP, and The World Wide Web © Programming basics: variables, strings, and numbers, if condition, loops © Algorithm basics + Learning Resources © Khan Academy course: https://bit.ly/42DUXtW © In the above course, only follow the first 4 sections (1) Digital Information (2) The Internet (3) Programming (4) Algorithms. Completing the remaining sections is optional. Do it if you have time and interest. Week 3 and 4: Beginners Python a + Topics © Variables, Numbers, Strings © Lists, Dictionaries, Sets, Tuples © If condition, for loop Functions, Lambda Functions © Modules (pip install) © Read, Write files © Exception handling © Classes, Objects + Learning Resources © Track A (Free) + Python Tutorials (Codebasics) on YouTube (first 16 videos) ~ https://bit ly/3X6CCC7 + Corey's Python Tutorials: https://bit ly/3uqUgaZ + Codebasics python HINDI tutorials ~ https://bit.ly/3vmXraw codeba:© Track B (Affordable Fees) + Python course: https://codebasics.io/courses/python-for-beginner-and- intermediate-learners + LinkedIn - Core Skil Create a professional-looking Linkedin profile + Have a clear profile picture and banner image. + Add tags such as: Open to work etc. (Use this Linkedin Checklist to create a profile: Click here. + Assignment O Track A: Finish all these exercises: https://bit.ly/3k1mof5 (i Track B: Finish exercises and quizzes for relevant topics 1 Create a professional-looking Linkedin profile. Week 5 and 6: Data Structures and Algorithms in Python Topics o Data structures basics, Big O notation © Data structures: Arrays, Linked List, Hash Table, Stack, Queue © Data structures: Tree, Graph © Algorithms: Binary search, Bubble sort, quick sort, merge sort Recursion Learning Resources co DSA YouTube Playlist: https://bit.ly/3uiW2Lf Motivation © How Kaggle helped this person become ML engineer: https://bit ly/3RFVruy Assignment O Finish all these exercises in this same playlist: https://bitly/3uiW2Lf codeba:Week 7, 8: Advance Python a Topics co Inheritance, Generators, Iterators © List Comprehensions, Decorators © Multithreading, Multiprocessing Learning Resources © Python Tutorials (Codebasics) on YouTube (17" to 27" video) - https://bit ly/3X6CCCT Assignment O Finish all these exercises in this same playlist: https://bit.ly/3X6CCC7 Core/Soft Skil o Linkedin + Start following prominent Al influencers. + Daliana Liu: https://wwwlinkedin,com/in/dalianaliu/ + Nitin Aggarwal: https//www linkedin.com/in/ntnaggarwal/ * Steve Nouri: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenouri/ + Dhaval Patel: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhavalsays/ = Increase engagement. + Start commenting meaningfully on Al and career-related posts. + Helps network with others working in the industry build connections. + Learning and brainstorming opportunity. + Remember online presence is a new form of resume © Business Fundamentals - Soft Ski = Learn business concepts from ThinkSchool and other YT Case Studies = Example: How Amul beat competition: https://youtu.be/nnwatZiYMxQ: © Discord + Start asking questions and get help from the community. This post shows how to ask questions the right way: https://bit.\y/3I70EbI + Join codebasics discord server: https//discord,qa/r42Kbuk codeba:+ Assignment (Write meaningful comments on at least 10 Al related LinkedIn posts Note down your key learnings from 3 case studies on ThinkSchool and share them with your friend. Week 9: Version Control (Git, Github) [jj] + Topics What is the version control system? What is Git and GitHub? Basic commands: add, commit, push. Branches, reverting change, HEAD, Diff and Merge Pull requests. + Learning Resources YT playlist (codebasics): https://bit.ly/3SECQQ7 YT playlist (Corey): https://bit.ly/3T0¥rmb + Motivation Mechanical to Deep Learning Engineer: https://bit.ly/48IX9aR + Core/Soft Skills Week 10, Presentation skills + Death by PowerPoint: https: Awpit IF. 11:sQ. © + Topics Basics of relational databases. Basic Queries: SELECT, WHERE LIKE, DISTINCT, BETWEEN, GROUP BY, ORDER BY Advanced Queries: CTE, Subqueries, Window Functions Joins: Left, Right, Inner, Full Database creation, indexes, stored procedures. codeba:+ Learning Resources o TrackA + Khan academy SQL course: https://bit ly/3WFku20 = https://www.w3schools.com/sql/ + https://sqlbolt.com/ + YT video: https://youtu.be/RmOxH2Vpfid?si=6ZLK8A5LVGqQN4NmT. © Track B = SQL course for data professionals: https://codebasics.io/courses/sql- beginner-to-advanced-for-data-professionals + Assignment Participate in SQL resume project challenge on https//codebasics io/ + Link: https//codebasicsio/challenge/codebasics-resume-project- challenge/7 + These challenges help you improve technical skills, soft skills and business understanding. (CMake a Linkedin post with a submission of your resume project challenge Sample post: https://bitly/48Bg5mB Week 12: Numpy, Pandas, Data Visualization [il] + Tech Skills o Numpy + numpy YouTube playlist: https://bitly/3GTppa8 o Pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn + Go through chapter 3 in this course (entire chapter is free): https://codebasics.io/courses/math-and-statistics-for-data-science Week 13, 14, 15, 16: Math & Statistics for Al z + Math and Statistics for Al © Topics to Learn * Basics: Descriptive vs inferential statistics, continuous vs discrete data, nominal vs ordinal data + Linear Algebra: Vectors, Metrices, Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors + Calculus: Basics of integral and differential calculus codeba:+ Basic plots: Histograms, pie charts, bar charts, scatter plot etc. + Measures of central tendency: mean, median, mode + Measures of dispersion: variance, standard devi + Probability basics * Distributions: Normal distribution + Correlation and covariance + Central limit theorem + Hypothesis testing: p value, confidence interval, type 1 vs type 2 error, Ztest © Learning Resources + Track A (Free) + Learn the above topics from this excellent Khan academy course on statistics and probability. + Course link: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics- probability + While doing khan academy course, when you have doubts, use statquest YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@statquest + Use this free YouTube playlist: https://bit ly/3QrSXis + Another great youtube channel: https://www youtube.com/@3blue1brown Track B (Affordable Fees) + Khan academy course doesn’t have python coding and it is generic. To learn using Python and specifics of applying statistics to data science check this course: https://codebasics.io/courses/math-statistics-for-data- professionals * Assignment Finish all exercises in this playlist: https://bit ly/3QrSXis Finish all exercises in Khan academy course.Week 17: Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) z + Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) © https://www.kaggle.com/code?searchQuery=exploratory+data+analysis © Use the above link to search for exploratory data analysis notebooks. © Practice EDA using at least 3 datasets + eg. https//www.kaggle.com/datasets/rishabhkarn/ipl-auction- 2023/data + Assignment i Perform EDA (Exploratory data analysis on at least 2 additional datasets on Kaggle) Week 18, 19, 20, 21: Machine Learning + Machine Learning: Preprocessing © Handling NA values, outlier treatment, data normalization © One hot encoding, label encoding o Feature engineering © Train test split © Cross validation + Machine Learning: Model Building Types of ML: Supervised, Unsupervised © Supervised: Regression vs Classification © Linear models + Linear regression, logistic regression = Gradient descent © Nonlinear models (tree-based models) + Decision tree + Random forest + XGBoost © Model evaluation + Regression: Mean Squared Error, Mean Absolute Error, MAPE = Classification: Accuracy, Precision-Recall, F1 Score, ROC Curve, Confusion matrix © Hyperparameter tuning: GridSearchCV, RandomSearchCV codeba:© Unsupervised: K means, Hierarchical clustering, Dimensionality reduction (PCA) + Learning Resources © YouTube playlist (more than 2 million views): https://bitly/3i05 + First 21 videos © Feature engineering playlist: https://bitly/31Fa3VF + Core/Soft Skills © Project Management + Scrum: https://scrumtrainingseries com/ + Kanban: https://youtu,be/jfotlbt9b0 + Tools: JIRA, Notion + Assignment ‘omplete all exercises in ML playlist: https://bit.ly/3ioSqqX (Work on 2 Kaggle ML notebooks (Write 2 Linkedin posts on whatever you have learnt in ML 1 Discord: Help people with at least 10 answers Week 22: ML Ops + Topics co What is API? FastAPI for Python server development © DevOps Fundamentals: CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) © Familiarity with at least one cloud platform (AWS, Azure etc.) + Learning Resources o FastAPI tutori ittps://bit.ly/497p6Ex o Docker tutorial: https://bit.ly/3uCNpeE Week 23, 24: Machine Learning Projects with Deployment @ + You need to finish two end to end ML projects. One on Regression, the other on Classification + Regression Project: Bangalore property price prediction © YouTube playlist link: https://bit.|y/3ivycWr © Project covers following + Data cleaning + Feature engineering + Model building and hyper parameter tuning codeba:+ Write flask server as a web backend * Building website for price prediction + Deployment to AWS. Classification Project: Sports celebrity image classification © YouTube playlist link: https://bit.ly/3ioaMSU © Project covers following + Data collection and data cleaning + Feature engineering and model training + Flask server as a web backend + Building website and deployment ATS Resume Preparation © Resumes are dying but not dead yet. Focus more on online presence. © Here is the resume tips video along with some templates you can use for your data analyst resume: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buQSI8NLOMw © Use this checklist to ensure you have the right ATS Resume: Check here. Portfolio Building Resources: You need a portfolio website in 2024. You can build your portfolio by using these free resources. © GitHub © Upload your projects with code on github and using github.io create a portfolio website o Sample portfolio website: http://rajagOpal.github.io/ + Linktree © Helpful to add multiple links in one page. Assignment © In above two projects make following changes (Use FastAPI instead of flask. FastAP! tutorial: https://youtu.be/WrJjhTt1 Xi Regression project: Instead of property prediction, take any other project of your interest from Kaggle for regression 1 Classification project: instead of sports celebrity classification, take any other project of your interest from Kaggle for classification and build end to end solution along with deployment to AWS or Azure (Add a link of your projects in your resume and LinkedIn. (Tag Codebasics, Dhaval Patel and Hemanand Vadivel with the hashtag #tdsroadmap24 so we can engage to increase your visibility) codeba:Week 25, 26, 27: Deep Learning @ + Topics © What is a neural network? Forward propagation, back propagation © Building multilayer perceptron © Special neural network architectures * Convolutional neural network (CNN) + Sequence models: RNN, LSTM + Learning Resources © Deep Learning playlist (tensorflow): https,//bit ly/3v0Z32V © Deep learning playlist (pytorch): https://bit ly/3TzDbWp_ © End to end potato disease classification project: httos://bit ly/3QzkVJi + Assignment Co Instead of potato plant images use tomato plant images or some other image classification dataset. (1 Deploy to Azure instead of GCP. Create a presentation as if you are presenting to stakeholders and upload video presentation on Linkedin. Week 28, 29, 30: NLP or Computer Vision & GenAl + Many Al engineers choose a specialized track which is either NLP or Computer vision. You don't need to learn both. + Natural Language Processing (NLP) © Topics = Regex * Text presentation: Count vectorizer, TF-IDF, BOW, Word2Vec, Embeddings + Text classification: Naive Bayes + Fundamentals of Spacy & NLTP library + One end to end project codeba:© Learning Resources + NLP YouTube playlist: https://bit ly/3XnjfEZ + Computer Vision (CV) © Topics + Basic image processing techniques: Filtering, Edge Detection, Image Scaling, Rotation + Library to use: OpencV + Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) - Already covered in deep learning. + Data preprocessing, augmentation ~ Already covered in deep learning. * Assignment CINLP Track: Complete exercises in this playlist: https://bit ly/3XnjfEZ Week 31, 32: LLM & Langchain a + Topics © What is LLM, Vector database, Embeddings? © RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) © Langchain framework + Learning Resources © Langchain, LLM playlist: https://bit ly/3R¥pxuw Week 33 onwards... © 6 © + More projects @ + Online brand building through Linkedin, Kaggle, Discord, Opensource contribution + Job application and Success 57 codeba:Tips of effective learning & + Spend less time in consuming information, more time in © Digesting © Implementing © Sharing + Group learning © Use partner-and-group-finder channel on codebasics discord server for group study and hold each other accountable for the progress of your study plan. Here is the discord server link: https://discord.gg/r42Kbuk