Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal (Effective For Academic Session 2019-2020) Semester III

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal
(Formerly West Bengal University of Technology)

Syllabus for M. Sc. In Data Analytics
(Effective for Academic Session 2019-2020)
Semester III
Paper: Time Series Analysis and Forecasting

Code: MDS 301
Contacts Hours / Week: 3L+1T
Credits: 4
Objectives:
To enable the students to:

equip students with various forecasting techniques and knowledge on modern statistical methods for
analyzing time series data
UNITS COURSE CONTENT

1 Econometric time series
Different components, illustration, additive and multiplicative models,
determination of trend, seasonal and cyclical fluctuations.
2 Time-series as discrete parameter stochastic process, auto covariance and

autocorrelation functions and their properties
3 Exploratory time Series analysis, tests for trend and seasonality, exponential and
moving average smoothing.
Detailed study of the stationary processes: (1) moving average (MA), (2) auto
regressive (AR), (3) ARMA and (4) AR integrated MA (ARIMA) model
4 Box-Jenkins models, choice of AR and MA periods.
Discussion (without proof) of estimation of mean, auto covariance and
autocorrelation functions under large sample theory, estimation of ARIMA
model parameters.
Spectral analysis of weakly stationary process, periodogram and correlogram
analyses, computations based on Fourier transform, non stationary process,
introduction to forecasting
References:
1. Introduction to time series and forecasting Book by Rob J. Hyndman
2. Time series analysis, forecasting and control Book by George E.P.Box
Paper: Data Mining
Code: MDS 302
Credits: 4
Objectives:
Understand data and web mining and cluster analysis techniques and their applications

1 Introduction: Data Mining Concept, Origin, Process, Applications, Techniques,
Challenges Data Preprocessing: Data types, Quality, Descriptive data
summarization – central tendency and dispersion measure, Data cleaning, Data
integration & transform, Data reduction
2 Association Rule Mining: Market-basket analysis basics, Naïve algorithm,
Apriori algorithm, Direct Hashing and Pruning (DHP), Software for Association
Rule Mining Classification and Prediction: Decision Tree, Classification by
decision tree induction, Bayesian classification, Rule-based classification,
Prediction – Linear and Nonlinear Regression, Classification software
3 Cluster Analysis: Types of data in cluster analysis, Partitioning methods,
Hierarchical methods, Density-based methods, Quality & Validity of clustering
methods
Cluster analysis software
Web Data Mining: Web content mining, Web usage mining, Web structure
mining, Hubs and Authorities, HITS algorithm, Web mining software
4 Text Mining, Support Vector Machine.
Data Mining Application & Information Privacy: Applications and trends in data
mining such as Web, finance, telecommunication, biology and medicine, science
and engineering retail industry etc. Social impacts of data mining, information
privacy and data security, IT Act overview
References:
1. Tan, Steinbach and Kumar, Introduction to Data Mining, Pearson
2. Han and Camber, Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, Morgan Kaufmann
3. Foreman, Data Smart: Using Data Science to Transform Information into Insight,
John Wiley
4. Dunham, Data Mining : Introductory and Advanced Topics, Pearson
Paper: Big Data Technology
Code: MDS 303
Credits: 4
Objectives:
Understand data and web mining and cluster analysis techniques and their applications

1 Big data definition, structured and unstructured data
2 Need for analytics, Big data programming ( Hadoop, Map-Reduce), Application
Data store ( NoSQL), OLAP
3 Optimization Techniques, Data flow framework. Programming Map-Reduce,
Best practices
References:
1. Handbook of big data technology by Zomaya and Sakr.
2. Big Data and Hadoop, V.K. Jain, Khanna Publishing House
3. Real time Big Data Analytics Book by Sumit Gupta
Paper: Design and Analysis of Algorithm
Code: MDS 304
Credits: 4
Objectives:
Understand the theoretical backbone of computer science and are a must in the daily work of the
successful programmer. The goal of this course is to provide a solid background in the design and
analysis of the major classes of algorithms

1 Basic Computational Model and analyzing Algorithms, Asymptotic Notation
and recurrence relations
2 Fundamental design methodologies and their implementations: Dynamics
Programming, Greedy algorithms, Divide and Conquer, Branch and Bound,
Backtracking, Randomized Techniques
3 Algorithms for set manipulations, their implementations and applications:
Union-Find, Priority Queues. Graph Algorithms with implementation issues;
Depth-First Search and its applications, minimum Spanning Trees and Shortest
Paths
4 Matrix multiplication, Pattern Matching, polynomial arithmetic and FFT.
Introduction to the Theory of Lower Bounds, NP-Completeness and Reductions
References:
1. E. Horowitz & S. Sahani : Fundamental of Computer Algorithm (Galgotia)
2. Coreman, Leiserson & Rivest : Introduction to Algorithm (MIT)
3. Brassard & Brately : Algorithm- Theory and Practice (PHI)
4. Gajendra Sharma, Design & Analysis of Algorithms (Khanna)
Paper: Machine Learning

Code: MDS 305
Credits: 4
Objectives:
state-of-the-art methods and modern programming tools for data analysis using machine learning
programs and algorithms

1 Supervised Learning, Decision Tree, Linear Discriminant Functions (SVM)
Neural Network, Deep belief network, Density elimination Methods
2 Bayes Decision Theory
3 Expectation and Minimization

4 Expectation and Minimization
References:
1. Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery edited by Walter Daelemans, Katharina
Morik
2. Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning by Christopher Bishop
3. Introduction to Machine learning with python by Andreas C. Müller and Sarah Guido
4. Introduction to Machine Learning using Python, Jeeva Jose, Khanna Publishing
House
5. Machine Learning, V.K. Jain, Khanna Publishing House
Paper: Data Mining Lab
Code: MDS 391
Credits: 4
Manipulating strings, Processing Files, Manipulating Lists, Lists and Strings, Dictionarys, Counting
with Dictionaries, Dictionaries and Files, Tuples, Tuples and Sorting, Regular Expressions,
Networked programs, Sockets and Applications, parsing HTML with Beautifulsoup, parsing XML by
python, REST,JSON and APIs, Extracting data from JSON, Using database by python, Object
oriented python, Geocoding, Page rank and web searching, Gmane.
Paper: Big Data Technology and OLTP Lab

Code: MDS 392
Contacts Hours / Week: 1L+3P
Credits: 4
A. NoSQL Lab using (MongoDB/Redis/Cassandra/CouchDB/Hbase using HDFs etc):

Introduction to Nosql, Difference between RDBMS to NOSQL,JSON and BSON documents,
Introduction to MongoDB/.. and its Features, Database, Collection and Documents,Various
Data Types in MongoDB/..,Introduction to mongo/.. shell, CRUD Operations, Database
Operations, Read and Write Operations, Aggregation, Data Modeling Introduction, Data
Modeling Concept, Storage Engine, Indexing, Replication Concept, Failover & Recovery
B. Multidimensional Data Modeling using OLAP:

Introduction of Data Warehousing and OLAP, example of a Data Warehouse and Data mart,
Data Cleaning and integration, Data analysis techniques, Transformation algorithms,
Integrations.

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Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal

(Formerly West Bengal University of Technology)

Paper: Time Series Analysis and Forecasting

To enable the students to:

UNITS COURSE CONTENT

2 Time-series as discrete parameter stochastic process, auto covariance and

To enable the students to:

UNITS COURSE CONTENT

To enable the students to:

UNITS COURSE CONTENT

To enable the students to:

UNITS COURSE CONTENT

Paper: Machine Learning

To enable the students to:

UNITS COURSE CONTENT

2 Bayes Decision Theory

3 Expectation and Minimization

Paper: Big Data Technology and OLTP Lab

A. NoSQL Lab using (MongoDB/Redis/Cassandra/CouchDB/Hbase using HDFs etc):

B. Multidimensional Data Modeling using OLAP:

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