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PYTHON FOR DATA SCIENCE
Complete Professional Curriculum

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80+ Hours 12 Modules 5 Projects
Course Duration Deep Content Real-world Capstone

📌 Course Level: Beginner → Advanced | Prerequisites: Basic computer literacy

📅 Edition: 2026 | Certifiable Completion | Lifetime Access to Updates

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📋 Table of Contents

🐍 MODULE 1 Python Foundations 04

📊 MODULE 2 NumPy — Numerical Computing 06

🐼 MODULE 3 Pandas — Data Manipulation 08

📈 MODULE 4 Matplotlib & Seaborn — Visualization 10

🤖 MODULE 5 Machine Learning with Scikit-learn 12

🌲 MODULE 6 Advanced ML Algorithms 14

🧠 MODULE 7 Deep Learning with TensorFlow & Keras 16

📝 MODULE 8 Natural Language Processing (NLP) 18

MODULE 9 Computer Vision with OpenCV 20

⚙️ MODULE 10 Data Engineering & Pipelines 22

☁️ MODULE 11 Cloud & MLOps Deployment 24

🚀 MODULE 12 Capstone Projects 26

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🐍 MODULE 1: PYTHON FOUNDATIONS

Build a rock-solid Python base before touching any data science library. This module covers the language
essentials every data scientist needs daily.

🔧 1.1 Setting Up Your Environment

Installer Anaconda 2024, Miniconda, pip — pros & cons
IDEs VS Code + Python extension, JupyterLab, PyCharm
Virtual Envs conda env, venv, pyenv — isolation best practices
Jupyter Tricks Magic commands %timeit, %%capture, keyboard shortcuts
First Script Hello Data Science — running .py & .ipynb side-by-side

📖 1.2 Core Python Syntax

▸ Variables, data types: int, float, str, bool, NoneType
▸ Operators: arithmetic, comparison, logical, bitwise, walrus :=
▸ String methods: split, join, strip, format, f-strings, regex basics
▸ Control flow: if/elif/else, while, for, break, continue, pass
▸ Comprehensions: list, dict, set, generator expressions

⚙️ 1.3 Functions & Scope

Defining Functions def, return, default args, *args, **kwargs
Lambda Functions Anonymous one-liners, use with map/filter/sorted
Closures Inner functions, nonlocal, capturing variables
Decorators @[Link], timing decorator, memoization
Recursion Factorial, Fibonacci, tree traversal — when to use it

1.4 Data Structures Deep Dive

▸ Lists — slicing, sorting, copying pitfalls
▸ Tuples — immutability, named tuples ([Link])
▸ Dictionaries — CRUD, defaultdict, Counter, OrderedDict
▸ Sets — union, intersection, difference, frozenset
▸ Stacks & queues with deque — time complexity comparison

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1.5 Object-Oriented Programming

Classes & Objects Attributes, methods, __init__, self
Inheritance Single, multiple, super(), method resolution order
Dunder Methods __str__, __repr__, __len__, __eq__, __iter__
Dataclasses @dataclass, field(), post_init — modern Python
Abstract Classes [Link], abstractmethod — interface contracts

1.6 Error Handling & File I/O

▸ try / except / else / finally — catching specific exceptions
▸ Custom exception classes inheriting from Exception
▸ Context managers — with open(), custom __enter__/__exit__
▸ Reading & writing: CSV, JSON, YAML, plain text
▸ [Link] — modern file-system navigation

🧪 HANDS-ON LAB: Build a command-line data-cleaning script that reads a CSV,

applies regex transformations, handles missing values, and writes cleaned output.
Estimated time: 3 hours | Deliverable: Cleaned CSV + Python script

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📊 MODULE 2: NumPy — NUMERICAL COMPUTING

NumPy is the bedrock of scientific Python. Master arrays, broadcasting, and linear algebra operations that
power every ML algorithm.

🔢 2.1 ndarray Fundamentals

Array Creation [Link], zeros, ones, eye, linspace, arange, random
dtypes int8-64, float16-64, complex, bool — memory tradeoffs
Shape & Strides shape, ndim, size, itemsize, strides internals
Indexing Basic, fancy, boolean masking, [Link]
Copies vs Views When slicing creates a view, using .copy() safely

📡 2.2 Array Operations & Broadcasting

▸ Element-wise arithmetic: +, -, *, /, **, [Link], [Link], [Link]
▸ Broadcasting rules — shapes (3,1) vs (1,4), common pitfalls
▸ Universal functions (ufuncs): add, multiply, sin, log — out= param
▸ Reduction: sum, mean, std, min, max along axes
▸ [Link] — compact notation for tensor contractions

📐 2.3 Linear Algebra

Matrix Ops [Link], @, [Link], transpose
Decompositions SVD, eigenvalues (eig/eigh), Cholesky, QR, LU
Solving Systems [Link], lstsq — linear systems
Norms [Link] — L1, L2, Frobenius, axis param
Determinants [Link], inv, matrix_rank, pinv (pseudoinverse)

🎲 2.4 Random Module & Statistics

▸ [Link].default_rng — modern Generator API with seeds
▸ Distributions: normal, uniform, binomial, poisson, beta, gamma
▸ Shuffling arrays, random sampling without replacement
▸ Statistical: percentile, histogram, corrcoef, cov
▸ Monte Carlo simulation example — estimating π

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⚡ 2.5 Performance & Memory

Vectorization Replacing Python loops — speed benchmarks
[Link] Wrapping scalar functions — not truly fast
Numba JIT @jit, @njit, parallel=True — 100x speedups
Memory Mapping [Link] for datasets larger than RAM
Structured Arrays Record arrays for heterogeneous tabular data

🧪 HANDS-ON LAB: Implement PCA from scratch using only NumPy (SVD decomposition).
Compare results with [Link] on a 10,000-sample dataset.
Estimated time: 2.5 hours | Deliverable: Jupyter notebook with benchmarks

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🐼 MODULE 3: PANDAS — DATA MANIPULATION

Pandas is the Swiss army knife of data wrangling. From loading messy CSV files to complex time-series
analysis, this module covers it all.

📋 3.1 Series & DataFrame Basics

Creating [Link], [Link] from dict, list, NumPy, CSV
Inspection .head(), .info(), .describe(), .shape, .dtypes, .memory_usage()
Indexing .loc (label), .iloc (integer), .at, .iat — when to use each
Boolean Filtering df[condition], .query() string expressions, isin()
Chaining Method chaining with .pipe() — readability & debugging

🧹 3.2 Data Cleaning

▸ Detecting missing data: .isna(), .notna(), .isnull().sum()
▸ Filling strategies: .fillna() with mean/median/mode/ffill/bfill
▸ Dropping: .dropna(thresh=, subset=), .drop_duplicates(keep=)
▸ Type casting: .astype(), pd.to_datetime(), pd.to_numeric(errors='coerce')
▸ Renaming, reindexing, column reordering — clean pipeline patterns
▸ Outlier detection: IQR fencing, z-score clipping

🔍 3.3 GroupBy & Aggregation

groupby() Split-apply-combine paradigm, as_index, observed
agg() Multiple functions at once: {'col': ['mean','std']}
transform() Group-normalize, fill with group mean — keeps shape
apply() Custom functions per group — flexibility vs speed
Named Aggregation [Link], clean multi-stat summaries

🔗 3.4 Merging, Joining & Reshaping

▸ [Link] — inner, left, right, outer, cross joins; on=, suffixes=
▸ [Link] — axis=0/1, ignore_index, keys= for MultiIndex
▸ [Link]() — convenience for index-based joining
▸ pivot_table vs crosstab — aggregated cross-tabulation

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▸ melt() & stack()/unstack() — wide ↔ long transformations

▸ pd.get_dummies — one-hot encoding with drop_first

⏰ 3.5 Time Series

DatetimeIndex pd.date_range, freq aliases: D, B, W, M, Q, A
Resampling .resample('M').mean() — upsampling & downsampling
Rolling & EWM .rolling(window=7), .ewm(span=12) — smoothing
Shifting .shift(), .diff(), .pct_change() — lagged features
Timezones tz_localize, tz_convert — DST-aware handling

⚡ 3.6 Performance Optimization

▸ Categorical dtype — 10x memory reduction on low-cardinality columns
▸ vectorized string ops: .[Link], .[Link], regex groups
▸ eval() and query() — numexpr backend for large DataFrames
▸ Chunked reading: pd.read_csv(chunksize=) for files > RAM
▸ Polars vs Pandas — when to switch, API comparison

🧪 HANDS-ON LAB: Full EDA pipeline on NYC Taxi Trip dataset (1M+ rows).
Clean, aggregate, visualize ride patterns, and engineer time features.
Estimated time: 4 hours | Deliverable: Notebook + executive summary

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📈 MODULE 4: MATPLOTLIB & SEABORN — VISUALIZATION

A picture is worth a thousand rows. Turn raw numbers into compelling, publication-quality visuals that drive
insight and decision-making.

4.1 Matplotlib Architecture

Figure vs Axes [Link](), [Link](), add_subplot() — hierarchy
OOP API fig, ax = [Link]() — preferred pattern
Backends Agg (PNG), SVG, PDF, interactive Qt/TkAgg
Styling [Link], rcParams, custom stylesheets
Saving savefig(dpi=300, bbox_inches='tight') — print quality

🎨 4.2 Essential Plot Types

▸ Line plots — time series, multi-line, twin axes
▸ Scatter plots — alpha, color mapping, bubble size encoding
▸ Bar & horizontal bar — grouped, stacked, percentage
▸ Histograms & density (KDE) — bins, normed, cumulative
▸ Box plots & violin plots — quartiles, jitter strips
▸ Heatmaps — annotated correlation matrices
▸ Pie & donut charts — when NOT to use them

📊 4.3 Seaborn Statistical Plots

Distribution histplot, kdeplot, ecdfplot, rugplot
Categorical stripplot, swarmplot, boxplot, violinplot, barplot
Relational scatterplot, lineplot — hue/size/style mappings
Regression regplot, lmplot, residplot — fit & confidence bands
Matrix heatmap, clustermap — hierarchical clustering
FacetGrid col=, row= — multi-panel conditional plots

🌐 4.4 Plotly Interactive Charts

▸ [Link], [Link], [Link] — Plotly Express one-liners

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▸ [Link] with traces — full control over layout

▸ Animated charts: frame=, animation_frame= — time evolution
▸ 3D scatter plots and surface plots
▸ Choropleth maps — country/state-level data on maps
▸ Dash basics — embedding Plotly in a web dashboard

4.5 Design Principles for Data Viz

Color Theory Colorblind-safe palettes (viridis, cividis), diverging vs sequential
Clutter Reduction Tufte's data-ink ratio, removing chartjunk
Annotations [Link](), [Link](), [Link]()
Multi-panel GridSpec, constrained_layout, tight_layout
Accessibility Alt-text, patterns vs color, WCAG contrast ratios

🧪 HANDS-ON LAB: Build a 6-panel exploratory dashboard for a financial dataset.

Include correlation heatmap, distribution plots, time series, and regression line.
Estimated time: 3 hours | Deliverable: Saved PNG/HTML dashboard

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🤖 MODULE 5: MACHINE LEARNING WITH SCIKIT-LEARN

Scikit-learn is the gold standard for classical ML. Master the Estimator API, model selection, and
interpretability techniques used in industry.

⚙️ 5.1 The Scikit-learn Estimator API

fit / transform Estimator, Transformer, Predictor — duck-typing
Pipeline make_pipeline, FeatureUnion — chaining steps
ColumnTransformer Applying different transformers per column type
set_output pandas output API (sklearn ≥ 1.2) — interoperability
clone() Cloning estimators for cross-validation safety

🔧 5.2 Preprocessing
▸ Scaling: StandardScaler, MinMaxScaler, RobustScaler, MaxAbsScaler
▸ Encoding: OneHotEncoder, OrdinalEncoder, TargetEncoder, LabelEncoder
▸ Imputation: SimpleImputer, KNNImputer, IterativeImputer (MICE)
▸ Feature engineering: PolynomialFeatures, SplineTransformer
▸ Text: TfidfVectorizer, CountVectorizer, HashingVectorizer

📚 5.3 Supervised Learning Algorithms

Linear Models LinearRegression, Ridge, Lasso, ElasticNet, LogisticRegression
Tree Models DecisionTreeClassifier/Regressor — max_depth, min_samples
Ensembles RandomForest, GradientBoostingClassifier, HistGradientBoosting
SVMs SVC, SVR, kernel trick, C, gamma hyperparameters
Neighbors KNeighborsClassifier — distance metrics, weights, ball tree
Naive Bayes GaussianNB, MultinomialNB, BernoulliNB — text classification

🔵 5.4 Unsupervised Learning

▸ K-Means — inertia, elbow method, KMeans++ initialization
▸ DBSCAN — density-based, noise points, eps & min_samples
▸ Hierarchical clustering — dendrograms, ward/complete/average linkage

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▸ PCA, TruncatedSVD, UMAP — dimensionality reduction comparison

▸ Isolation Forest, LOF — anomaly detection

📏 5.5 Model Evaluation

Classification Accuracy, Precision, Recall, F1, ROC-AUC, PR-AUC, MCC
Regression MAE, MSE, RMSE, R², MAPE — when each metric matters
Cross-Validation KFold, StratifiedKFold, GroupKFold, TimeSeriesSplit
Calibration calibration_curve, CalibratedClassifierCV
Threshold Tuning optimal F1 threshold, Youden's J, cost-sensitive cutoffs

5.6 Hyperparameter Tuning

▸ GridSearchCV — exhaustive, refit, scoring, n_jobs=-1
▸ RandomizedSearchCV — scipy distributions, n_iter budget
▸ HalvingGridSearchCV — successive halving for speed
▸ Optuna integration — Bayesian optimization beyond sklearn

🧪 HANDS-ON LAB: End-to-end binary classification on customer churn dataset.

Full pipeline: imputation → encoding → scaling → model → tuning → evaluation.
Estimated time: 5 hours | Deliverable: Trained pipeline + model card

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🌲 MODULE 6: ADVANCED ML ALGORITHMS

Go beyond vanilla scikit-learn with industry-favourite gradient boosting frameworks, explainability tools, and
feature engineering techniques.

⚡ 6.1 XGBoost
Core Concepts Boosting theory, regularized objective, shrinkage
Key Parameters n_estimators, max_depth, learning_rate, subsample, colsample
Early Stopping eval_metric, eval_set, verbose_eval, best_ntree_limit
XGB API DMatrix, [Link], [Link] — low-level control
Sklearn API XGBClassifier, XGBRegressor — pipeline integration

🚀 6.2 LightGBM & CatBoost

▸ LightGBM: GOSS, EFB — leaf-wise growth vs level-wise
▸ LightGBM native categorical handling, faster on large data
▸ CatBoost: Ordered boosting, symmetric trees, Cat features natively
▸ Benchmark comparison: speed, accuracy, memory on tabular data

🔍 6.3 Model Explainability (XAI)

SHAP TreeExplainer, KernelExplainer — global & local explanations
SHAP Plots beeswarm, waterfall, force, dependence — storytelling
LIME Local surrogate models — black-box explanations
Permutation permutation_importance — model-agnostic feature ranking
Partial Dependence PartialDependenceDisplay, ICE plots — marginal effects

6.4 Feature Engineering

▸ Target encoding with cross-fitting to prevent leakage
▸ Binning & discretization: [Link], [Link], KBinsDiscretizer
▸ Interaction features: products, ratios, polynomial combos
▸ Date features: day-of-week, is_weekend, days_since_event
▸ Aggregation features: group-level statistics — mean encoding
▸ Cyclical encoding: sin/cos for hours, months, angles

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🧪 HANDS-ON LAB: Kaggle-style tabular competition pipeline — feature engineering,

LightGBM + XGBoost stacking, SHAP-driven feature selection, leaderboard submission.
Estimated time: 6 hours | Deliverable: Submission CSV + analysis notebook

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🧠 MODULE 7: DEEP LEARNING — TENSORFLOW & KERAS

Master neural networks from the perceptron to transformers, using TensorFlow 2.x and the modern Keras 3
API.

⚡ 7.1 Neural Network Foundations

Perceptron Weights, bias, activation — mathematical intuition
Forward Pass Matrix multiplication through layers, XW + b
Backpropagation Chain rule, gradient flow, vanishing/exploding gradients
Activations ReLU, Leaky ReLU, GELU, Swish, Sigmoid, Tanh, Softmax
Loss Functions BCE, CCE, MSE, Huber, Focal loss — choosing the right one

7.2 Building Models with Keras

▸ Sequential API — simple stack of layers
▸ Functional API — multi-input, multi-output, skip connections
▸ Model subclassing — custom training loops with GradientTape
▸ Layer types: Dense, Dropout, BatchNorm, LayerNorm, Embedding
▸ [Link], fit, evaluate, predict — the full lifecycle
▸ Callbacks: EarlyStopping, ModelCheckpoint, ReduceLROnPlateau, TensorBoard

7.3 Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)

Convolution Kernel, stride, padding, receptive field calculation
Pooling MaxPool, AveragePool, GlobalAveragePool
Architecture VGG16, ResNet50, EfficientNetV2 — transfer learning
Fine-tuning Freeze base layers, unfreeze gradually, learning rates
Data Augmentation Keras layers: RandomFlip, RandomRotation, RandomZoom

🔄 7.4 Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs)

▸ Vanilla RNN — sequential data, hidden state, BPTT
▸ LSTM — forget/input/output gates, cell state — long-range dependencies
▸ GRU — simplified gating, faster training than LSTM
▸ Bidirectional RNNs — reading sequences both ways

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▸ Sequence-to-sequence — encoder-decoder for translation

🌟 7.5 Transformers & Attention

Self-Attention Q, K, V matrices, scaled dot-product, multi-head
Positional Encoding Sinusoidal vs learned — injecting sequence order
BERT Fine-tuning Hugging Face Trainer API for classification tasks
ViT Vision Transformer — patch embedding for images
GPT Basics Autoregressive generation, causal masking

🧪 HANDS-ON LAB: Train a CNN on CIFAR-10, then fine-tune EfficientNetV2 with

transfer learning. Achieve >92% test accuracy. Visualize activations with Grad-CAM.
Estimated time: 6 hours | Deliverable: Saved .keras model + Grad-CAM notebook

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📝 MODULE 8: NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (NLP)

Extract meaning, sentiment, and structure from unstructured text — one of the fastest-growing areas in
applied AI.

🔤 8.1 Text Preprocessing

Tokenization Word-level, sub-word (BPE/WordPiece), sentence
Normalization Lowercasing, Unicode NFC/NFKC, removing HTML/URLs
Stopwords NLTK corpus, custom domain stopwords
Stemming/Lemma PorterStemmer vs WordNetLemmatizer — when each helps
spaCy Pipeline nlp(text) — tokens, pos_, dep_, ents_ — blazing fast

📊 8.2 Classical NLP Features

▸ Bag of Words — CountVectorizer, vocabulary size, sparse matrices
▸ TF-IDF — term importance weighting, max_df/min_df filtering
▸ N-grams — bigrams, trigrams — capturing phrases
▸ Sentiment lexicons — VADER, TextBlob polarity/subjectivity

🔵 8.3 Word & Sentence Embeddings

Word2Vec CBOW vs Skip-gram, negative sampling, Gensim training
GloVe Global co-occurrence, pretrained 50-300d vectors
FastText Sub-word embeddings — handles OOV words
Sentence-BERT sentence-transformers library — semantic similarity
Cosine Similarity Finding analogies, clustering embeddings with UMAP

🤗 8.4 Hugging Face Transformers

▸ AutoTokenizer, AutoModel, AutoModelForSequenceClassification
▸ pipeline() — zero-shot classification, NER, QA, summarization
▸ Fine-tuning BERT on custom classification tasks with Trainer API
▸ Data collators, compute_metrics callback, evaluate library
▸ PEFT / LoRA — efficient fine-tuning of large language models

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🧪 HANDS-ON LAB: Build a news sentiment classifier — scrape headlines, fine-tune

DistilBERT, deploy as REST API with FastAPI. Evaluate with F1 macro score.
Estimated time: 5 hours | Deliverable: Fine-tuned model + FastAPI service

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MODULE 9: COMPUTER VISION WITH OPENCV

9.1 Image Processing Fundamentals

Reading & Display [Link], imshow, resize, cvtColor (BGR→RGB)
Geometric Transforms Rotation, scaling, affine warp, perspective warp
Filtering Gaussian blur, median filter, Sobel/Canny edge detection
Morphological Ops Erosion, dilation, opening, closing — noise removal
Color Spaces BGR, HSV, LAB — segmentation by color range

🎯 9.2 Object Detection

▸ Haar Cascades — face detection, fast but limited
▸ YOLOv8 — Ultralytics API, inference, custom training
▸ OpenCV DNN module — loading ONNX models
▸ Tracking: SORT, Deep SORT — multi-object tracking

LAB: Real-time face & pose detection pipeline using MediaPipe + OpenCV. ⏱️4 hours

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⚙️ MODULE 10: DATA ENGINEERING & PIPELINES

10.1 SQL & Database Connectivity

SQLite & PostgreSQL sqlite3, psycopg2, SQLAlchemy ORM basics
Pandas SQL pd.read_sql, to_sql — DataFrame ↔ DB round-trips
Query Optimization EXPLAIN ANALYZE, indexing, vacuuming
DuckDB In-process OLAP — SQL on Parquet/CSV — blazing fast

✨ 10.2 Apache Spark with PySpark

▸ SparkSession, DataFrame API, lazy evaluation & DAG
▸ Transformations vs Actions — map, filter, groupBy, window functions
▸ MLlib — distributed ML pipelines, ALS recommender
▸ Spark Streaming basics — micro-batch processing

🔄 10.3 Workflow Orchestration

Apache Airflow DAGs, operators, sensors, XComs, Scheduler
Prefect Pythonic flows, tasks, state machine, cloud UI
dbt SQL transformations, models, tests, lineage graph

LAB: Build an Airflow DAG that fetches, transforms, and loads stock data nightly to PostgreSQL. ⏱️
5 hours

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☁️ MODULE 11: CLOUD & MLOps DEPLOYMENT

📊 11.1 MLflow Experiment Tracking

Tracking mlflow.log_param, log_metric, log_artifact — runs
Model Registry Versioning models, stage transitions, annotations
Serving mlflow models serve — REST endpoint in one command
Projects MLproject file — reproducible runs across environments

🚀 11.2 Model Serving

▸ FastAPI — async REST endpoints, Pydantic validation, Swagger UI
▸ Docker — Dockerfile for ML services, docker-compose stack
▸ BentoML — ML-aware serving with batching & adaptive concurrency
▸ Triton Inference Server — NVIDIA GPU serving for deep learning

☁️ 11.3 Cloud Platforms

AWS SageMaker, S3, Lambda, ECR, CloudWatch
GCP Vertex AI, BigQuery ML, Cloud Run, Cloud Storage
Azure Azure ML, Databricks, Blob Storage, ACI
CI/CD for ML GitHub Actions — test, build, push, deploy pipeline

🧪 LAB: Package a trained model as Docker container, push to ECR, deploy on SageMaker endpoint.
4 hours

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🚀 MODULE 12: CAPSTONE PROJECTS

Apply everything you've learned. Choose ONE major project or complete multiple mini-projects for a
comprehensive portfolio.

📊 Project A — End-to-End Predictive Analytics

Domain: Retail / Finance / Healthcare (your choice)

Tasks: EDA → feature engineering → model selection → tuning → deployment
Deliverable: Streamlit dashboard + REST API + documented model card
Duration: 15 hours

🧠 Project B — Deep Learning Application

Domain: Image classification OR text generation

Tasks: Data collection → augmentation → training → evaluation → Grad-CAM / attention viz
Deliverable: Trained model + web demo (Gradio / Hugging Face Spaces)
Duration: 20 hours

⚙️ Project C — MLOps Full Pipeline

Domain: Any regression or classification problem

Tasks: MLflow tracking → Docker packaging → CI/CD → cloud deployment → monitoring
Deliverable: GitHub repo with automated pipeline + live endpoint URL
Duration: 15 hours

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