Post-Graduate Diploma in Data Science in Health and Climate Change for Social Impact

2024-25 (Semester 1)

Module Sub-topic Description Date Exam Date

1 Introduction to Data Introduction to Statistics and Overview of the program: Unique
Data Science opportunities and challenges Nov 03
Oct 6 - Oct 27
Overview of data sciece approaches 10 - 11 AM
Types of data
2 Working with Data Introduction to Excel, R and
Introduction to excel, R and Python
Python
Reading and Writing Data using R and
Python Dec 15
Oct 13 - Nov 03
Basic exploration of Data 2 - 3 PM
Data Quality (Seeing and Analyzing)
Remediation Approaches (Filtering,
Transformations, Imputation)
3 Inferential Statistics and Basics of Biostatistics Getting Data into Shape(Long and Wide
Comparative Data Sciences Data)
Random variable and probability
Measures of Centrality and Deviation
Probability Distribution:Discrete and
Continuous
Moments of distribution (mean, variance,
skewness, kurtosis)
Probability density function and Cumulative
density function Dec 22
Nov 10 - Dec 1
Central Limit Theorem and Normal 10 - 11 AM
Distribution
Sampling distribution (e.g, sampling
distribution of the mean)
Foundational Data Analytics Quantiles and Rank Statistics
Testing for Normality and Data
Transformations
Statistical Inference: Parametric Tests

Statistical Inference: Non-parametric Tests

4 Modelling and Basic Machine Linear Algebra and Regression

Learning for Health and Models Introductory Linear Algebra
Climate Applications
Supervised and Unsupervised Learning

Regression: Linear Model General Linear

Model
Classification: Logistic Regression and
Multinomial Model
Variable Selection: Stepwise approaches Feb 16
Dec 15 - Jan 19
10 - 11 AM
Machine Learning Introduction to Machine Learning & Bayes
Theorem
High Dimensional Data: Principal
Component Analysis and t-SNE
Machine Learning Approaches: Decision
Tree, Neural Networks. SVM, Random
Forest, Bayesian Networks
Overfitting, Generalization, Regularization

Unsupervised Learning: Clustering

5 Visualization of Health and Advanced Visualization Introduction to ggplot (R) and seaborn
Climate Data Techniques in Data Sciences (python)
Advanced Visualization Strategies in Data
Sciences e.g., heatmaps, sankey plots, radar
charts, sunbursts, word clouds, waterplots,
icicle plots
Interactive Data Visualization (using plotly,
networkD3)
3D data visualization
Creating Dashboard
Introduction to Geographical Introduction to Spatial Data and Spatial
Data & Spatial Statistics Models: Geostatistical data; Lattice sata; Mar 16
Feb 2 - Mar 2
and Point data 10 - 11 AM
Characterising Spatial Autocorrelation
(Metrics) and Relevant Issues for Classical
Regression Analysis
Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis and
Stationarity of Spatial Random Processes

Measuring Spatial Dependence and Spatial

Heterogeneity
Environmental Pollution and Economic
Growth application with hands-on exercises
on ArcGIS and R