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Data Science Roadmap

The document outlines a comprehensive Data Science roadmap for beginners, divided into seven phases covering prerequisites, programming in Python, data analysis and visualization, machine learning, projects, deep learning, and deployment. Each phase includes essential topics and skills, such as mathematics, Python libraries, supervised and unsupervised learning techniques, and model deployment tools. Additionally, it provides resources for further practice and study, including recommended books and platforms.

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Data Science Roadmap

The document outlines a comprehensive Data Science roadmap for beginners, divided into seven phases covering prerequisites, programming in Python, data analysis and visualization, machine learning, projects, deep learning, and deployment. Each phase includes essential topics and skills, such as mathematics, Python libraries, supervised and unsupervised learning techniques, and model deployment tools. Additionally, it provides resources for further practice and study, including recommended books and platforms.

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Here’s a detailed, topic-wise Data Science roadmap for beginners with everything you need to

study, from basics to advanced concepts, arranged step-by-step:

Phase 1: Prerequisites

1. Mathematics

a. Linear Algebra

• Scalars, vectors, matrices, tensors

• Matrix multiplication, transpose, inverse

• Eigenvalues & eigenvectors

b. Calculus

• Derivatives & gradients

• Partial derivatives

• Chain rule (for backpropagation in ML)

c. Probability & Statistics

• Descriptive statistics: mean, median, mode, variance, std. deviation

• Probability distributions: binomial, normal, Poisson

• Bayes’ Theorem

• Sampling techniques

• Hypothesis testing (z-test, t-test, chi-square test)

• Confidence intervals

Phase 2: Programming in Python

2. Python for Data Science

• Data types, conditionals, loops

• Functions, lambda, map, filter

• File I/O, exception handling

• List comprehensions, dictionaries, sets

• Object-Oriented Programming basics


3. Essential Python Libraries

• NumPy – arrays, broadcasting, linear algebra

• Pandas – DataFrames, indexing, filtering, groupby, merging

• Matplotlib – basic plotting (line, bar, scatter)

• Seaborn – statistical visualizations (boxplot, heatmap)

Phase 3: Data Analysis and Visualization

4. Data Cleaning & Preprocessing

• Handling missing values (dropna, fillna)

• Dealing with duplicates

• Encoding categorical data (LabelEncoder, OneHotEncoder)

• Scaling (MinMaxScaler, StandardScaler)

• Feature engineering & selection

5. Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)

• Univariate analysis (histograms, boxplots)

• Bivariate analysis (scatter plots, pair plots)

• Correlation matrix & heatmaps

• Outlier detection

Phase 4: Machine Learning

6. Supervised Learning

a. Regression

• Linear Regression

• Polynomial Regression

• Regularization (Ridge, Lasso)

b. Classification

• Logistic Regression

• Decision Trees

• Random Forest

• K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN)

• Naive Bayes
• Support Vector Machines (SVM)

7. Unsupervised Learning

• Clustering (K-Means, Hierarchical, DBSCAN)

• Dimensionality Reduction (PCA, t-SNE)

8. Model Evaluation & Tuning

• Train-test split, cross-validation

• Confusion Matrix, Precision, Recall, F1-Score, ROC-AUC

• Grid Search, Random Search (Hyperparameter tuning)

Phase 5: Projects & Case Studies

9. Mini Projects

• Predict Titanic survival (Kaggle)

• House price prediction

• Stock price trend prediction

• Customer segmentation using K-means

• Movie recommendation system (Collaborative Filtering)

Phase 6: Deep Learning (Optional for Beginners)

10. Deep Learning Basics

• What is a Neural Network?

• Activation functions (ReLU, Sigmoid, Softmax)

• Loss functions (MSE, Cross-Entropy)

• Backpropagation

• Optimizers (SGD, Adam)

11. Deep Learning Frameworks

• TensorFlow & Keras (model creation, training, evaluation)

• PyTorch (for more advanced control)


12. Intro to Special Models

• CNNs – for image data

• RNNs, LSTMs – for time series or text

Phase 7: Deployment & Tools

13. Model Deployment

• Flask / FastAPI for serving ML models via REST API

• Streamlit for interactive dashboards

• Docker for containerization

• Git & GitHub for version control

• Google Colab & Jupyter Notebooks

14. Cloud Platforms (Basics)

• Google Cloud ML

• AWS Sagemaker

• Azure ML Studio

Bonus: Resources for Practice

Books

• “Python for Data Analysis” by Wes McKinney

• “Hands-On ML with Scikit-Learn, Keras & TensorFlow” by Aurélien Géron

• “Deep Learning” by Ian Goodfellow

Practice Platforms

• Kaggle

• Hackerrank

• LeetCode – Data Science Problems

• UCI ML Repository

Would you like a printable PDF roadmap or Notion template with all these stages in checklist
format? I can create one for you!

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