Python for Data Science
Course Code MCS104A CIE Marks 50
Teaching Hours/Week (L:P:SDA) 4:0:2 SEE Marks 50
Total Hours of Pedagogy 50 Total Marks 100
Credits 03 Exam Hours 03
Module-1
Introduction: What is Data Science? Big Data and Data Science hype – and getting past the hype,
Why now? – Datafication, Current landscape of perspectives, Skill sets. Needed Statistical
Inference: Populations and samples, Statistical modelling, probability distributions, fitting a model,
- Introduction to R, Overview of RDBMS ,Relational Model, Concepts of Tables, Rows, and
Columns Keys: Primary, Foreign, Unique ,Relationships: One-to-One, One-to-Many, Many-to-
Many 3. SQL Fundamentals, Introduction to SQL, Data Definition Language (DDL),CREATE,
ALTER, DROP Data Manipulation Language (DML),SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE.
Teaching- Chalk and talk/PPT/case study/web content
Learning
Process
Module-2
Exploratory Data Analysis and the Data Science Process: Basic tools (plots, graphs and
summary statistics) of EDA, Philosophy of EDA,The Data Science Process, Case Study: Real Direct
(online real estate firm). Three Basic Machine Learning Algorithms: Linear Regression, k-Nearest
Neighbors (kNN), k-means
Teaching- Chalk and talk/PPT/case study/web content
Learning
Process
Module-3
One More Machine Learning Algorithm and Usage in Applications: Motivating application: Filtering
Spam, Why Linear Regression and k-NN are poor choices for Filtering Spam, Naive Bayes and why
it works for Filtering Spam, Data Wrangling: APIs and other tools for scrapping the Web
Teaching- Chalk and talk/PPT/case study/web content
Learning
Process
Module-4
Feature Generation and Feature Selection (Extracting Meaning from Data): Motivating application:
user (customer) retention. Feature Generation (brainstorming, role of domain expertise, and place
for imagination), Feature Selection algorithms. Filters; Wrappers; Decision Trees; Random
Forests. Recommendation Systems: Building a User-Facing Data Product, Algorithmic ingredients
of a Recommendation Engine, Dimensionality Reduction, Singular Value Decomposition, Principal
Component Analysis, Exercise: build your own recommendation system
Teaching- Chalk and talk/PPT/case study/web content
Learning
Process
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Module-5
Mining Social-Network Graphs: Social networks as graphs, Clustering of graphs, Direct discovery of
communities in graphs, Partitioning of graphs, Neighborhood properties in graphs, Data
Visualization: Basic principles, ideas and tools for data visualization. Data Science and Ethical
Issues, Discussions on privacy, security, ethics, Next-generation data scientists
Teaching- Chalk and talk/PPT/case study/web content
Learning
Process
Question paper pattern:
The question paper will have ten questions.
Each full question is for 20 marks.
There will be 2 full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
module. ∎
Textbook/Reference Books
Title of the book Author Name Publisher’ Publication
sName year
Textbook(s):
1 Doing Data Science Cathy O’Neil and O’Reilly 2014
Rachel Schutt,
Straight Talk
from The
Frontline
2 Mining of Massive DatasetsV2.1 Jure Leskovek, Cambridg 2014
AnandRajarama e
nand Jeffrey University
Ullman Press, 2nd
Edition
Reference Book(s):
1 Data Mining: Concepts Jiawei Han, Morgan 2012
andTechniques MichelineKambe Kauffman,
rand Jian Pei Third
Edition,
Assessment Details (both CIE and SEE)
The weightage of Continuous Internal Evaluation (CIE) is 50% and for Semester End Exam (SEE) is
50%. The minimum passing mark for the CIE is 50% of the maximum marks. Minimum passing marks
in SEE is 40% of the maximum marks of SEE. A student shall be deemed to have satisfied the
academic requirements and earned the credits allotted to each subject/ course if the student secures
not less than 50% (50 marks out of 100) in the sum total of the CIE (Continuous Internal Evaluation)
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and SEE (Semester End Examination) taken together
CIE for the theory component of IPCC
Two Tests each of 20 Marks
Two assignments each of 10 Marks/One Skill Development Activity of 20 marks
Total Marks of two tests and two assignments/one Skill Development Activity added will be CIE for 60
marks, marks scored will be proportionally scaled down to 30 marks.
CIE for the practical component of IPCC
On completion of every experiment/program in the laboratory, the students shall be evaluated and
marks shall be awarded on the same day. The15 marks are for conducting the experiment and
preparation of the laboratory record, the other 05 marks shall be for the test conducted at the end of
the semester.
The CIE marks awarded in the case of the Practical component shall be based on the continuous
evaluation of the laboratory report. Each experiment report can be evaluated for 10 marks. Marks of
all experiments’ write-ups are added and scaled down to 15 marks.
The laboratory test at the end /after completion of all the experiments shall be conducted for 50
marks and scaled down to 05 marks.
Scaled-down marks of write-up evaluations and tests added will be CIE marks for the laboratory
component of IPCC for 20 marks.
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SEE for IPCC
Theory SEE will be conducted by University as per the scheduled timetable, with common question
papers for the course (duration 03 hours)
The question paper will be set for 100 marks and marks scored will be scaled down proportionately
to 50 marks.
The question paper will have ten questions. Each question is set for 20 marks.
There will be 2 questions from each module. Each of the two questions under a module (with a
maximum of 3 sub-questions), should have a mix of topics under that module.
The students have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each module.
The theory portion of the IPCC shall be for both CIE and SEE, whereas the practical portion will have a
CIE component only. Questions mentioned in the SEE paper shall include questions from the practical
component).
The minimum marks to be secured in CIE to appear for SEE shall be the 15 (50% of maximum marks-
30) in the theory component and 10 (50% of maximum marks -20) in the practical component. The
laboratory component of the IPCC shall be for CIE only. However, in SEE, the questions from the
laboratory component shall be included. The maximum of 04/05 questions to be set from the practical
component of IPCC, the total marks of all questions should not be more than the 20 marks.
SEE will be conducted for 100 marks and students shall secure 40% of the maximum marks to qualify
in the SEE. Marks secured will be scaled down to 50. (Student has to secure an aggregate of 50% of
maximum marks of the course(CIE+SEE)
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