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Diploma in Big Data Analytics (e-DBDA)



e-DBDA will educate the aspirants who want to make an impact in the corporate and academic world in the domain of big data analytics as data scientist and researcher, big data leads/administrators/managers, business analysts and data visualization specialists. The students will be able to work with big data platform, utilise various big data analysis techniques for useful business applications, design efficient algorithms for mining the data from large volumes, analyze the HADOOP and Map Reduce technologies associated with big data analytics, and explore big data applications.

  • Graduate in Engineering in IT, Computer Science, Electronics, Telecommunications, Electrical, Instrumentation, OR
  • Post Graduate Degree in Computer Science, IT, Electronics, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, OR
  • 4-year Graduation in Bioinformatics, OR
  • MCA
The candidate must have minimum of 55% in the qualifying degree.

The course fees of e-Diploma in Big Data Analytics (e-DBDA) course is Rs. 60,000 plus GST currently @ 18%.

The course fees is to be paid in the two installments. The first installment is Rs. 10,000/- plus GST currently @ 18% to be paid after the allocation of seats. The second installment is Rs. 50,000/- plus GST currently @ 18% to be paid before the commencement of course.

  

Introduction to Business Analytics using some case studies, Summary Statistics, Making Right Business Decisions based on data, Statistical Concepts, Descriptive Statistics and its measures, Probability theory, Probability Distributions (Continuous and discrete- Normal, Binomial and Poisson distribution) and Data, Sampling and Estimation, Statistical Interfaces, Predictive modeling and analysis, Bayes’ Theorem, Central Limit theorem, Data Exploration & preparation, Concepts of Correlation,  Covariance, Outliers, Regression Analysis, Forecasting Techniques, Simulation and Risk Analysis, Optimization, Linear, Nonlinear, Integer, Overview of Factor Analysis, Directional Data Analytics, Functional Data Analysis , Non parametric Tests- ANOVA, chi-Square, t-Test, U-Test; Predictive Modelling (From Correlation To Supervised Segmentation): Identifying Informative Attributes, Segmenting Data By Progressive Attributive, Models, Induction And Prediction, Supervised Segmentation, Visualizing Segmentations, Trees As Set Of Rules, Probability Estimation; Overfitting And Its Avoidance: Generalization, Holdout Evaluation Vs Cross Validation; Decision Analytics: Evaluating Classifiers, Analytical Framework, Evaluation, Baseline, Performance And Implications For Investments In Data; Evidence And Probabilities: Explicit Evidence Combination With Bayes Rule, Probabilistic Reasoning;

Python Libraries: Pandas,  Numpy, Scipy, Scrapy, Plotly, Beautiful soup

  

Linux Programming: Installation (Ubuntu and CentOS), Basics of Linux, Configuring Linux, Shells, Commands, and Navigation, Common Text Editors, Administering Linux, Introduction to Users and Groups, Linux shell scripting, shell computing, Introduction to enterprise computing, Remote access

Cloud Computing: Cloud Computing Basics, Understanding Cloud Vendors (AWS/Azure/GCP), Definition, Characteristics, Components, Cloud provider, SAAS, PAAS, IAAS and other Organizational scenarios of clouds, Administering & Monitoring cloud services, benefits and limitations, Deploy application over cloud. Comparison among SAAS, PAAS, IAAS, Cloud Products and Solutions, Cloud Pricing, Compute Products and Services, Elastic Cloud Compute, Dashboard.

  

Database Concepts (File System and DBMS), OLAP vs OLTP, Database Storage Structures (Table space, Control files, Data files), Structured and Unstructured data, SQL Commands (DDL, DML & DCL), Stored functions and procedures in SQL, Conditional Constructs in SQL, data collection, Designing Database schema, Normal Forms and ER Diagram, Relational Database modelling, Stored Procedures. The tools and how data can be gathered in a systematic fashion, Data ware Housing concept, No-SQL, Data Models - XML, working with MongoDB.

  

Python Programming: Python basics, If, If- else, Nested if-else, Looping, For, While, Nested loops, Control Structure, Break, Continue, Pass, Strings and Tuples, Accessing Strings, Basic Operations, String slices, Working with Lists, Accessing list, Operations, Function and Methods, Files, Modules, Dictionaries, Functions and Functional Programming, Declaring and calling Functions, Declare, assign and retrieve values from Lists, Introducing Tuples, Accessing tuples, Visualizing using  Matplotlib, Seaborn, OOPs concept, Class and object, Attributes, Inheritance, Overloading, Overriding, Data hiding, Operations Exception, Exception Handling, except clause, Try-finally clause, User Defined Exceptions, Data wrangling, Data cleaning

R Programming: Reading and Getting Data into R, Exporting Data from R, Data Objects-Data Types & Data Structure. Viewing Named Objects, Structure of Data Items, Manipulating and Processing Data in R (Creating, Accessing, Sorting data frames, Extracting, Combining, Merging, reshaping data frames), Control Structures, Functions in R (numeric, character, statistical), working with objects, Viewing Objects within Objects, Constructing Data Objects, Packages – Tidyverse, Dplyr, Tidyr etc., Queuing Theory, Interactive reporting with R markdown, Introduction to Rshiny.

  

OOPs Concepts, Data Types, Operators and Language, Constructs, Inner Classes and Inheritance, Interface and Package, Exceptions, Collections, Threads, Java.lang, Java.util, Java Virtual Machine.

  

Introduction to Big Data: Big Data - Beyond The Hype, Big Data Skills And Sources Of Big Data, Big Data Adoption, Research And Changing Nature Of Data Repositories, Data Sharing And Reuse Practices And Their Implications For Repository Data Curation

Hadoop: Introduction of Big data programming-Hadoop, The ecosystem and stack, The Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), Components of Hadoop, Design of HDFS, Java interfaces to HDFS, Architecture overview, Development Environment, Hadoop distribution and basic commands, Eclipse development, The HDFS command line and web interfaces, The HDFS Java API (lab), Analyzing the Data with Hadoop, Scaling Out, Hadoop event stream processing, complex event processing, MapReduce Introduction, Developing a Map Reduce Application, How Map Reduce Works, The MapReduce Anatomy of a Map Reduce Job run, Failures, Job Scheduling, Shuffle and Sort, Task execution, Map Reduce Types and Formats, Map Reduce Features, Real-World MapReduce,

Hadoop Environment: Setting up a Hadoop Cluster, Cluster specification, Cluster Setup and Installation, Hadoop Configuration, Security in Hadoop, Administering Hadoop, HDFS – Monitoring & Maintenance, Hadoop benchmarks

Apache Airflow: Introduction to Data warehousing and Data lakes, Designing Data warehousing for an ETL Data Pipeline, Designing Data Lakes for ETL Data Pipeline, ETL vs ELT

Introduction & Programming with Hive: Data warehouse system for Hadoop, Optimizing with Combiners and Practitioners (lab), Bucketing, more common algorithms: sorting, indexing and searching (lab), Relational manipulation: map-side and reduce-side joins (lab), evolution, purpose and use, Case Studies on Ingestion and warehousing

HBase: Overview, comparison and architecture, java client API, CRUD operations and security

Apache Spark APIs for large-scale data processing: Overview, Linking with Spark, Initializing Spark, Resilient Distributed Datasets (RDDs), External Datasets, RDD Operations, Passing Functions to Spark, Job optimization, Working with Key-Value Pairs, Shuffle operations, RDD Persistence, Removing Data, Shared Variables, EDA using PySpark, Deploying to a Cluster Spark Streaming, Spark MLlib and ML APIs, Spark Data Frames/Spark SQL, Integration of Spark and Kafka, Setting up Kafka Producer and Consumer, Kafka Connect API, Mapreduce, Connecting DB’s with Spark

  

Business Intelligence- requirements, content and managements, information Visualization, Data analytics Life Cycle, Analytic Processes and Tools, Analysis vs. Reporting, MS Excel: Functions, Formula, charts, Pivots and Lookups, Data Analysis Tool pack: Descriptive Summaries, Correlation, Regression, Introduction to Power BI, Modern Data Analytic Tools, Visualization Techniques.

  

Supervised and Unsupervised Learning, Uses of Machine learning , Clustering, K means, Hierarchical Clustering, Decision Trees, Classification problems, Bayesian analysis and Naïve Bayes classifier, Random forest, Gradient boosting Machines, Association rules learning, PCA, Apriori, Support vector Machines, Linear and Non liner classification,  ARIMA, XG Boost, CAT Boost, Neural Networks and its application, Tensor flow 2.x framework: Deep learning algorithms, KNN, NLP, Bert in NLP, NLTK

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Reference Book

No. of Questions

English

Any High School Grammar Book (e.g. Wren & Martin)

35

Quantitative Aptitude & Reasoning

Quantitative Aptitude Fully Solved (R. S. Aggrawal)

Quantitative Aptitude (M Tyara)

Barron’s New GRE 2016

Computer Fundamentals

Foundations of Computing (Pradeep Sinha & Priti Sinha)

40

Operating Systems

Operating System Principles (Silberschatz, Galvin, Gagne)

C Programming

C Programming Language (Kernighan & Ritchie)

Let Us C (Yashavant Kanetkar)

Data Structures

Data Structures Through C in Depth (S. K. Srivastava)

OOP Concepts

Test Your C ++ Skills (Yashavant Kanetkar)

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