ST JOSEPH’S UNIVERSITY BENGALURU

A Public –Private-Partnership University under RUSA 2.0 of MHRD(Government of India), established by the
Karnataka Govt. Act No. 24 of 2021

ST. JOSEPH’S INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

DEPARTMENT OF ADVANCED COMPUTING

SYLLABUS FOR PG DIPLOMA IN DATA ANALYTICS

 SUMMARY OF CREDITS IN PG DIPLOMA IN DATA ANALYTICS

DEPARTMENT OF ADVANCED COMPUTING

(2022-2024)
Semester 1 Code Title No. of Nu Nu Conti End Tot
Number Hours mb mbe nuous Seme al
of er r of Intern ster ma
Instruct of cred al Mar rks
ions Ho its Assess ks
urs ment
of (CIA)
teach Marks
ing
per
week
Theory PGDDS1 Data 3 3 3 50 50 100
122 Analytics marks
and 2 Hrs
Visualiza
tion
Theory PGDDS1 Database 3 3 3 50 50 100
222 Manage marks
ment 2 Hrs
Systems
Theory PGDDS1 Python 3 3 3 50 50 100
322 for Data marks
Analytics 2 Hrs
Theory PGDDS1 3 3 3 50 50 100
Basics of
422 marks
Statistics
2 Hrs
Practical PGDDS1 Data 2 2 1 50
P1 Analytics
and
Visualiza
tion Lab
Practical PGDDS1 Python 2 2 1 50
P2 for Data
Analytics
Lab
Practical PGDDS1 Database 2 2 1 50
P3 Manage
ment
Systems
Lab
Practical PGDDS1 Mini 4 4 2 50
P4 Project
Total Number of credits: 17

Semest Code Title No. of Nu Nu Conti End Tot

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Instruct of cred al Mar rks
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hrs (CIA)
/wee Marks
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Theory PGDD 3 3 3 50 50 100
S2122 Machine Learning marks
2 Hrs
Theory PGDD 3 3 3 50 50 100
S2222 Linear Algebra marks
2 Hrs
Practica PGDD Internship/Project 24 12 100
l S2P1
Total Number of credits: 18

COURSE OUTCOMES AND COURSE CONTENT

Semester First

Paper Code PGDDS 1122

Paper Title DATA ANALYTICS AND VISUALIZATION

Number of teaching hrs per week 3 Hrs

Total number of teaching hrs per semester 45

Number of credits 3

COURSE OBJECTIVES

This program will make the students learn the process of working with data in large scale. Make the student understand
the existence of data with its wilderness and make use of it.

COURSE OUTCOMES

CO1: Understand the fundamental concepts of data.

CO2: Understand the fundamental concepts of data science process.
CO3: Understand the fundamental concepts of Machine Learning
CO4: Fundamental concepts of large data
CO5: Concepts of Data Visualization

UNIT 1: PREPARING AND GATHERING DATA AND KNOWLEDGE 8 Hrs.

Philosophies of data science - Data science in a big data world - Benefits and uses of data science and big data - facts of
data: Structured data , Unstructured data, Natural Language, Machine generated data, Audio, Image and video
streaming data - The Big data Eco system: Distributed file system, Distributed Programming framework, Data
Integration frame work, Machine learning Framework, NoSQL Databases, Scheduling tools, Benchmarking Tools,
System Deployment, Service programming and Security.

UNIT 2: THE DATA SCIENCE PROCESS 8 Hrs.

Overview of the data science process- Retrieving data –Data Preparation: Cleansing, integrating, and transforming data
- Exploratory data analysis – Data Modeling: Model and variable selection, Model execution, Model diagnostic and
model comparison - Presentation and automation: Presenting data, Automating data analysis

UNIT 3: INTRODUCTION TO MACHINE LEARNING 8 Hrs.

Application for machine learning in data science- Tools used in machine learning- Modeling Process – Training model
– Validating model – Predicting new observations –Types of machine learning Algorithm : Supervised learning
algorithms, Unsupervised learning algorithms, Reinforcement Algorithm.- Semi supervised Learning

UNIT 4: BIG DATA, GRAPH DATABASES, TEXT ANALYTICS 8 Hrs.

Distributing data storage and processing with frameworks - Case study: Assessing risk when loaning money - Join the
NoSQL movement - Introduction to NoSQL - Case Study
Introducing connected data and graph databases - Text mining and text analytics - text mining in real world - text
mining techniques - – Map Reduce – Dashboard development tools.

UNIT 5: DATA VISUALIZATION 8 Hrs.

SELF STUDY 5 Hrs.

TEXT BOOKS
1. Introducing Data Science, Davy Cielen, Arno D. B. Meysman and Mohamed Ali, Manning Publications, 2016.
2. Think Like a Data Scientist, Brian Godsey, Manning Publications, 2017.

REFERENCE BOOKS
1. Doing Data Science, Straight Talk from the Frontline, Cathy O'Neil, Rachel Schutt, O‟ Reilly, 1st edition, 2013.
2. Mining of Massive Datasets, Jure Leskovec, Anand Rajaraman, Jeffrey David Ullman, Cambridge University
Press, 2nd edition, 2014
3. An Introduction to Statistical Learning: with Applications in R, Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie,
Robert Tibshirani, Springer, 1st edition, 2013
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Code number: PGDDS1122

Title of the paper: DATA ANALYTICS AND VISUALIZATION

Number of Total marks for which the questions are to be asked

Chapter (including bonus questions
Hours
Unit I 8 20
Unit II 8 20
Unit III 8 30
Unit IV 8 20
Unit V 8 20
Self-Study 05
TOTAL 45 110
Maximum marks for the paper (Excluding bonus question)= 70

Semester First

Paper Code PGDDS 1222

Paper Title DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Number of teaching hrs per week 3 Hrs

Total number of teaching hrs per semester 45

Number of credits 3

COURSE OBJECTIVES

This course concentrates on introduction, principles, design and implementation of DBMS. It introduces about the
distributed system and brief about data mining and data warehouse. To
provide strong foundation of database concepts and develop skills for the design and
implementation of a database application with a brief exposure to advanced database concepts.

COURSE OUTCOMES

CO1: Understanding the fundamental concepts of Database Management systems

CO2: Understanding the concepts of Database models.
CO3: Understanding the core terms, concepts, and tools of relational database management systems.
CO4: Understanding database design and logic development for database programming.
UNIT 1: DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM INTRODUCTION 10 Hrs.

Data- Database- Database management system- Characteristics of the database approach- Role of Database
administrators- Role of Database Designers- End Users- Advantages of Using a DBMS-Data models, Schema and
Instances –Database design - Database Engine – 1 tier architecture – 2 tier architecture- 3 tier architecture – History of
Database Management systems- Types of Databases.

UNIT 2: DATABASE MODELS AND IMPLEMENTATION 10 Hrs.

Data Model and Types of Data Model- Relational Data Model- Hierarchical Model- Network Data Model-
Object/Relational Model- Object-Oriented Model- Entity-Relationship Model- Modeling using E-R
Diagrams- Notation used in E-R Model- Relationships and Relationship Types- Cardinalities. Subclasses,
Super classes and Inheritance – Specialization and Generalization – Characteristics of Specialization and
Generalization – Modeling of UNION types with categories- An example University EER Schema.

UNIT 3: RELATIONAL DATABASES 10 Hrs.

Structure of relational databases- Properties of relational databases and Tables –Structure of relational databases –
Database Schema – Armstrong Axioms – Functional Dependency-Anomalies in a Database- Properties of
Normalized Relations- First Normalization- Second Normal Form Relation- Third Normal Form- Boyce-Codd
Normal Form (BNCF).

UNIT 4: SQL AND ADDITIONAL CONCEPTS 10 Hrs.

Categories of SQL Commands; Data Definition; Data Manipulation Statements, SELECT - The Basic Form,
Subqueries, Functions, GROUP BY Feature, Updating the Database, Data Definition Facilities. MongoDB
Overview- MongoDB Data modeling.

SELF STUDY 5 Hrs.

REFERENCE BOOKS

1. Elmasri Ramez and Navathe Shamkant B, Fundamentals of Database Systems, Addison -Wesley, 6th
Edition, 2010.

2. Silberschatz, Korth, Sudarshan, Database System Concepts, 5 Edition, McGraw Hill, 2006.

3. O`neil Patricand, O`neil Elizabeth, Database Principles, Programming and Performance, 2nd Edition,
Margon Kaufmann Publishers Inc, 2008.

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Code number: PGDDS1222

Title of the paper: DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Number of Total marks for which the questions are to be asked

Chapter (including bonus questions
Hours
Unit I 10 20
Unit II 10 30
Unit III 10 30
Unit IV 10 30
Self-Study 05
 TOTAL 45 110
Maximum marks for the paper (Excluding bonus question)= 70

Semester FIRST

Paper Code PGDDS1322

Paper Title PYTHON FOR DATA ANALYTICS

Number of teaching hrs per week 3 Hrs

Total number of teaching hrs per semester 45

Number of credits 3

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

This course is designed to teach students how to analyse different types of data using Python. Students will learn how
to prepare data for analysis, perform simple statistical analysis, create meaningful data visualizations and predict future
trends from data.

COURSE OUTCOMES:

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

CO1: Understanding basics of python for performing data analysis

CO2: Use different python packages for mathematical, scientific applications and for web data analysis.
CO3: Able to get knowledge about Data Wrangling.
CO4: Develop the model for data analysis and evaluate the model performance.
CO5: Understanding the data, performing pre-processing, processing and data visualization to get insights from data.

UNIT 1: DATA STRUCTURES AND OOP 8 Hrs.

Python Program Execution Procedure – Statements – Expressions – Flow of Controls –

Functions – Numeric Data Types – Sequences – Strings – Tuples – Lists – Dictionaries.
Class – Constructors – Object Creation – Inheritance – Overloading. Text Files and Binary Files – Reading and
Writing.

UNIT 2: NUMPY AND PANDAS PACKAGES 8 Hrs.

NumPy ndarray - Vectorization Operation - Array Indexing and Slicing - Transposing Array
and Swapping Axes - Saving and Loading Array - Universal Functions - Mathematical and
Statistical Functions in NumPy .
Series and DataFrame data structures in pandas - Creation of Data Frames – Accessing the
columns in a DataFrame - Accessing the rows in a DataFrame - Panda‟s Index Objects - Reindexing Series and
DataFrames - Dropping entries from Series and Data Frames - Indexing, Selection and Filtering in Series and Data
Frames - Arithmetic Operations between Data Frames and Series - Function Application and Mapping.

UNIT 3: DATA WRANGLING 8 Hrs.

Combining and Merging Data Sets – Reshaping and Pivoting – Data Transformation – String
manipulations – Regular Expressions.

UNIT 4: DATA AGGREGATION AND GROUP OPERATIONS 8 Hrs

Group By Mechanics – Data Aggregation – GroupWise Operations – Transformations – Pivot Tables – Cross
Tabulations – Date and Time data types.

UNIT 5: VISUALIZATION IN PYTHON 8 Hrs.

Matplotlib and Seaborn Packages – Plotting Graph - Controlling Graphs – Adding Text –
More Graph Types – Getting and Setting Values – Patches.
SELF STUDY 5 Hrs.

REFERENCE BOOKS:

1. Gowrishanker and Veena, “Introduction to Python Programming”, CRC Press,

2019.
2. Python Crash Course, 2nd Edition, By Eric Matthes, May 2019
3. NumPy Essentials, By Leo Chin and Tanmay Dutta, April 2016
4. Joel Grus, “Data Science from scratch”, O'Reilly, 2015.
5. Wes Mc Kinney, “Python for Data Analysis”, O'Reilly Media, 2012.
6. Kenneth A. Lambert, (2011), “The Fundamentals of Python: First Programs”,
Cengage Learning
7. Jake Vanderplas. Python Data Science Handbook: Essential Tools for
Working with Data 1st Edition.

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Code number: PGDDS1322

Title of the paper: PYTHON PROGRAMMING

Number of Total marks for which the questions are to be asked

Chapter (including bonus questions
Hours
Unit I 8 20
Unit II 8 30
Unit III 8 20
Unit IV 8 20
Unit V 8 20
Self-Study 05
TOTAL 45 110
Maximum marks for the paper (Excluding bonus question)= 70
 Semester FIRST

Paper Code PGDDS1422

Paper Title BASICS OF STATISTICS

Number of teaching hrs per week 3 Hrs

Total number of teaching hrs per semester 45

Number of credits 3

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

The course aims to explain the basic concepts of statistical methods and develop analytical ability to solve real-world
problems using these methodologies.

COURSE OUTCOMES:

CO1: Understand the concept of data collection and analysis.

CO2: Design effective data visualizations in order to provide new insights and communicate information to the
viewer.
CO3: Knowledge of Statistical techniques and its scope and importance
CO4: Discuss basic ideas of linear regression and correlation and their applications.

UNIT 1: DATA COLLECTION 10 Hrs.

Concepts of measurement, scales of measurement, design of data collection formats with illustration, data quality and
issues with date collection systems with examples from business, cleaning and treatment of missing data, Sampling
techniques.

UNIT 2: DATA VISUALIZATION 10 Hrs.

Principles of data visualization and different methods of presenting data in business analytics

UNIT 3: BASIC STATISTICS 10 Hrs.

Frequency table, histogram, measures of location, measures of spread, skewness, curtosis, percentiles, box plot, relative
frequency distribution as a statistics model

UNIT 4: CORRELATION AND REGRESSION 10 Hrs.

Covariance, Correlation coefficient, properties of Correlation coefficient, Rank correlation, linear regression (two
variables), Multiple correlation and partial correlation.

SELF STUDY 5 Hrs.

REFERENCE BOOKS:

1. Statistical Inference : P. J. Bickel and K. A. Docksum, 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall.

2. Introduction to Linear Regression Analysis: Douglas C. Montgomery

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Code number: PGDDS1422
Title of the paper: BASIC STATISTICAL METHODS

Number of Total marks for which the questions are to be asked

Chapter (including bonus questions
Hours
Unit I 10 30
Unit II 10 30
Unit III 10 20
Unit IV 10 30
Self-Study 5
TOTAL 45 110
Maximum marks for the paper (Excluding bonus question)= 70

Semester FIRST

Paper Code PGDDS2P1

Paper Title DATA ANALYTICS AND VISUALIZATION

LAB

Number of teaching hrs per week 2 Hrs

Total number of teaching hrs per semester 30

Number of credits 1

1. Creating and manipulating vector in R

2. Creating matrix and manipulating matrix in R
3. Operations on Data Frames in R
4. Operations on Lists in R.
5. Programs on If – else statements in R
6. Programs on For Loops in R.
7. Customizing and Saving to Graphs in R.
8. PLOT Function in R to customize graphs
9. 3D PLOT in R to customize graphs
 10. Implement in R Programming the concept to find Sum, Mean and Product of a Vector, ignore element
like NA or NaN.
11. Implement in R Programming the concept to find missing values.
12. Implement the concept to create a list of data frames and access each of those data frames from the
list using R.
13. Implement the concept of matrix multiplication and addition using R.
14. Implement linear regression model and compare predicted value with actual value using
Visualization.
15. Implement logistic regression model and compare predicted value with actual value using
Visualization.
16. Implement k-means clustering.
17. Data Visualization

Semester FIRST

Paper Code PGDDS2P2

Paper Title PYTHON FOR DATA ANALYTICS LAB

Number of teaching hrs per week 2 Hrs

Total number of teaching hrs per semester 30

Number of credits 1

List of programs -
1. Introduction to Python interpreter
2. Control statements
3. functions, I/O, File handling, Packages/Libraries
4. Exception Handling, OO Programming.
5. Use of different packages for Data analytics and visualization

Semester FIRST

Paper Code PGDDS2P3

Paper Title DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS LAB

Number of teaching hrs per week 2 Hrs

Total number of teaching hrs per semester 30

 Number of credits 1

1. DDL
2. EER diagram
3. DML
4. Different types of JOIN operations
5. Manipulating database using Python

Semester SECOND

Paper Code PGDDS2122

Paper Title MACHINE LEARNING

Number of teaching hrs per week 3 Hrs

Total number of teaching hrs per semester 45

Number of credits 3

COURSE OBJECTIVES:
This course will provide the students to understand the concepts of Machine Learning, supervised learning and their
applications, the concepts and algorithms of unsupervised learning, the concepts and algorithms of advanced learning.

COURSE OUTCOMES:

CO1: Design a learning model appropriate to the application.

CO2: Design a model using supervised learning
CO3: Use a tool to implement typical Clustering algorithms for different types of applications in unsupervised learning
CO4: Identify applications suitable for different types of dimensionality reduction methods.

UNIT 1: MACHINE LEARNING INTRODUCTION 10 Hrs.

Machine Learning–Types of Machine Learning –Machine Learning process- preliminaries, testing Machine Learning
algorithms, turning data into Probabilities, and Statistics for Machine Learning Probability theory – Probability
Distributions – Decision Theory.
UNIT 2: SUPERVISED LEARNING 10 Hrs.

Linear Models for Regression, Linear Models for Classification, Discriminant Functions, Probabilistic Generative
Models, Probabilistic Discriminative Models, Decision Tree Learning, Bayesian Learning, Naïve Bayes, Ensemble
Methods – Bagging and Boosting, Mixture of experts, Support Vector Machines.

UNIT 3: UNSUPERVISED LEARNING 10 Hrs.

Clustering- K-means, EM Algorithm, Mixtures of Gaussians, Estimating means of K Gaussians

UNIT 4: DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION 10 Hrs.

Dimensionality Reduction, Linear Discriminant Analysis, Factor Analysis, Principal Components Analysis,
Independent Components Analysis, TSNE.

SELF STUDY 5 Hrs.

REFERENCE BOOKS:

1. Tom Mitchell, “Machine Learning”, McGraw-Hill, 1997.

2. Christopher Bishop, “Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning” Springer, 2007. \
3. Stephen Marsland, “Machine Learning – An Algorithmic Perspective”, Chapman andHall, CRC Press, Second
Edition, 2014.
4. Kevin P. Murphy, “Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective”, MIT Press, 2012.
5. Ethem Alpaydin, “Introduction to Machine Learning”, MIT Press, Third Edition, 2014.

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Code number: PGDDS2122
Title of the paper: Machine Learning

Number of Total marks for which the questions are to be asked

Chapter (including bonus questions
Hours
Unit I 10 20
Unit II 10 30
Unit III 10 30
Unit IV 10 30
Self-Study 5
TOTAL 45 110
Maximum marks for the paper (Excluding bonus question)= 70

Semester SECOND

Paper Code PGDDS2222

 Paper Title LINEAR ALGEBRA

Number of teaching hrs per week 3 Hrs

Total number of teaching hrs per semester 45

Number of credits 3

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

To help students understand the „intuition‟ behind the concepts of Linear Algebra and which in turn will help them to
see its applications in later courses.

COURSE OUTCOMES:

CO1: Understand the most fundamental concept „vector‟ that constructs Linear Algebra.
CO2: Able to gain knowledge of two Fundamental topics of Linear Algebra and Vector Space
CO3: Understanding two Fundamentals topics of Linear Algebra and Linear Transformation
CO4: Building the Basics of Linear Programming

UNIT 1: VECTORS 10 Hrs.

Introduction to Linear Algebra, Difference Between Linear Algebra & Matrix Analysis, Revision of Basic Geometry,
Definition of Vectors - Examples, Two Fundamental Vectors – Geometric Vectors and Rn Vectors, Properties of
Vectors, Linear Combination of Vectors, Decomposition of Vectors, Linear Independent & Linearly Dependent
Vectors and Span of Vectors.

UNIT 2: VECTOR SPACE 10 Hrs.

Definition of Vector Space – Examples, Definition of Subspaces – Examples, Union & Intersection of Subspaces,
Definition of Basis Vectors – Standard Basis and Dimension of Vector Space

UNIT 3: LINEAR TRANSFORMATION 10 Hrs.

Definition of Linear Transformation – Examples, Introduction to Matrix, Matrix as Linear Transformation, Matrix
Multiplication (Composition of Linear Transformations) – Three Perspectives: 1. Column, 2. Row & 3. Dot Product,
Concept of Determinant – Area, Volume, Hyper-plane, etc., System of Linear Equations – Column & Null Space,
Gaussian Elimination, Row Reduced Echelon Form, Eigenvalues & Eigenvectors, Inverse Matrix and Positive Definite
& Semi-Definite Matrix.

UNIT 4: LINEAR PROGRAMMING 10 Hrs.

Introduction to Linear Programming – Examples, Problems in LP, Convex Sets, Corner Points, Feasibility, Basic
Feasible Solutions and Simplex Method

SELF STUDY 5 Hrs.

REFERENCE BOOKS :
 1. Introduction to Linear Algebra, Gilbert Strang 5th Edition.
2. Linear Programming, G. Hadley.

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CODE NUMBER: PGDDS2222
TITLE OF THE PAPER: LINEAR ALGEBRA

Number of Total marks for which the questions are to be asked

Chapter (including bonus questions
Hours
Unit I 10 30
Unit II 10 20
Unit III 10 30
Unit IV 10 30
Self-Study 5
TOTAL 45 110
Maximum marks for the paper (Excluding bonus question)= 70