CPGET-2023
M.Sc. Data Science
Eligibility Criteria:
Must have obtained B.Sc./B.E./B. Tech. degree with Data Science subject as optional with
minimum of 24 Credits.
OR
Must have obtained B.Sc. with Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science as optional
subjects.
78. M.Sc. Data Science Syllabus for Entrance Test - 2023
1. Fundamentals of Information Technology: Data and Information, Acquisition of
Numbers and Textual Data, Central Processing Unit, Computer Networks, Input Output
Devices, Computer Software, The Software Problem. Programming Principles and
Guidelines.
2. Problem Solving and Python Programming: Introduction to Computing and Problem
Solving. Introduction to Python Programming. Control Flow Statements. Functions.
Strings. Files and exception. Object-Oriented Programming. Functional Programming.
3. Data Engineering with Python: Data Science; Files and Working with Text Data,
Working with Text Data. Working with Text Data, Regular Expression Operations, Working
with Databases, Working with Tabular Numeric Data (Numpy with Python), Working with
Data Series and Frames, Plotting (Plotting with Pandas).
4. Machine Learning: Introduction, Limits of Learning, Geometry and Nearest Neighbours,
The Perceptron, Practical Issues, Linear Models, Probabilistic Modeling, Neural
Networks, Unsupervised Learning, Association Rules.
5. Natural Language Processing: Language Processing and Python, Accessing Text Corpora
and Lexical Resources, Processing Raw Text, Categorizing and Tagging Words,Learning to
Classify Text, Deep Learning for NLP, Extracting Information from Text, Analysing
Sentence Structure.
6. NoSQL Data Bases: Why NoSQL, Aggregate Data Models, More Details on Data
Models,Distribution Models, Consistency, Version Stamps, Map-Reduce, Key-Value
Databases, Document Databases, Column-Family Stores, Graph Databases.
7. Big Data: Getting an overview of Big Data, Introducing Technologies for Handling Big
Data, Understanding Hadoop Ecosystem, Hadoop Distributed File System, Introducing
HBase, Understanding MapReduce Fundamentals and HBase, Understanding Big Data
Technology Foundations, Storing Data in Databases and Data Warehouses, NoSQL Data
Management.
8. Deep Learning: Introduction to deep learning Algorithms, Neural Networks, Scalars (0D
tensors), Vectors (1D tensors), Matrices (2D tensors), 3D tensors and higher-dimensional
tensors, Key attributes, Manipulating tensors in Numpy, The notion of data batches, Real-
world examples of data tensors, Vector data, Timeseries data or sequence data, Image data,
Video data. Tensor operations: Element-wise operations, Broadcasting, Tensor dot. Tensor
reshaping, Geometric interpretation of tensor operations, A geometric interpretation of deep
learning, Gradient-based optimization, Derivative of a tensor operation, Stochastic gradient
descent. Chaining derivatives: the Backpropagation algorithm Neural networks: Anatomy,
Layers, Models, Loss functions and optimizers. Introduction to Keras, Keras, TensorFlow,
Theano, and CNTK, Recurrent neural networks: A recurrent layer in Keras, Understanding
the LSTM and GRU Layers.
