MASTER OF SCIENCE

IN
COMPUTER SCIENCE

( DATA ANALYTICS)

PROGRAMME STRUCTURE AND SYLLABUS

From 2020-21 Admission onwards

BOARD OF STUDIES IN COMPUTER APPLICATIONS (PG)

MAHATMA GANDHI UNIVERSITY
KOTTAYAM
 BOARD OF STUDIES IN COMPUTER APPLICATIONS (PG)

1 Krishnakumar M R
Associate Professor and HOD
Department of Computer Application Chairman
SAS SNDP Yogam College, Konni
2 Dr. Manu Sankar
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Applications Member
Sree Sankara Vidhyapeetom College,
Valayanchirangara
3 Sreekumar B
Associate Professor , Department of Computer Member
Applications, NSS College Rajakumari
4 Dr. Sabu M K
Professor Department of Computer Applications, Member
CUSAT
5 Biju Skaria
Associate Professor, Department of Computer
Applications Mar Athanasius College of Engineering, Member
Kothamangalam
6 Amruth K John
Associate Professor Department of Computer
Applications Marian College Kuttikkanam Member
(Autonomous)
7 Spasiba Raveendran
Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Member
SAS SNDP College, Konni
8 Jasir M P
Assistant Professor Department of Computer Member
Applications MES College, Marampally, Alua
9 Dr Benymol Jose
Associate Professor Department of Computer Member
Applications Marian College Kuttikkanam, Idukki
10 Shyni S Das
Associate Professor Department of Computer Member
Applications SAS SNDP Yogam College, Konni
11 Maya N
Associate Professor Department of Computer Member
Applications NSS Hindu College, Changanacherry
1. Aim of the Programme
The Master’s programme in Computer Science with specialization in Data Analytics aims to
combine a scientific mind set with specialist technical knowledge, enabling graduates to
analyse, design, validate and implement state-of-the-art ICT systems in their operational
context. It is a broad-based program that covers concepts from engineering, science and
business with the aim of producing high-quality software professionals.
2. Eligibility For Admission
The eligibility for admission to [Link]. Computer Science with Data Analytics programme in
affiliated institutions under Mahatma Gandhi University is a regular [Link]. Degree with
Mathematics /Computer Science /Electronics as one of the subjects (Main or Subsidiary) or
BCA/[Link] degree with not less than 50% marks.
Note: Candidates having degree in Computer Science/ Computer Application/ IT/Electronics
shall be given a weightage of 20% in their qualifying degree examination marks considered
for ranking for admission to [Link]. Computer Science with Data Analytics.
3. Programme Structure and Duration
The duration of the programme shall be 4 semesters. The duration of each semester shall be 90
working days. Odd semesters from June to October and even semesters from December to
April.
4. Examination
There shall be University examination for theory and practical at the end of each semester.
Main Project evaluation and Comprehensive Viva -Voce shall be conducted at the end of the
programme only. Comprehensive viva-voce in the fourth semester will cover entire courses in
the programme. Project evaluation and Viva-Voce shall be conducted by two external
examiners and one internal examiner. Mini project evaluation of second and third semester is
done along with university practical examination. The same is conducted by external examiner
appointed from university. End-semester examination of all courses except project will be of
three hours duration.

5. Faculty under which degree is awarded

Faculty of Science
6. Curriculum Design Abstract
Semester I
CA030101 - Statistics for Data Analytics
CA030102 - Introduction to Data Analytics and Machine Learning
CA030103 - Advanced Operating Systems
CA030104 - Data Structure using C
CA030105 - Python Programming for Analytics
CA030106 - Python and Data structure Lab
Semester II
CA030201 - Mathematics for Data Analytics
CA030202 - Advanced Database Management system
CA030203 - Data Mining and Analytics
CA030204 - Programming with Java
CA030205 - Java & SQL Lab
CA030206 - Mini Project I

Semester III
CA030301 - Statistical Modeling using R
CA030302 - Exploratory Data Analytics for NLP
CA030303 - Computational Research Methodology
Elective - Elective 1
CA030304 - Statistical Programming Lab using R
CA030305 - Mini Project II
Semester IV
CA030401 - Data Visualisation
Elective - Elective 2
Elective - Elective 3
CA030402 - Project
CA030403 - Comprehensive viva-voce

Elective Group I
CA850301 - Semantic Web and Web Scraping - (Semester III)E1
CA850401 - Text Analytics - (Semester IV)E2
CA850402 - Big Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence - (Semester IV)E3

Elective Group II
CA860301 - Social Media Mining - (Semester III)E1
CA860401 - Business Intelligence - (Semester IV)E2
CA860402 - Business Data Analytics - (Semester IV)E3

Elective Group III

CA870301 - Sentiment Analytics - (Semester III)E1
CA870401 - Internet of Things and Data Management - (Semester IV)E2
CA870402 - Deep Learning - (Semester IV)E3
 *The Colleges shall select any one of the elective group and has to be intimated to the
controller of examinations within two weeks of the commencement of third semester, the
selection of courses from different elective groups is not permitted

7. Scheme

Teaching
Type of Hrs/Week Total
Semester Course Code Course Name Credit
Course Credit
Theory Practical

I Statistics for Data 20

CA030101 Analytics Core 4 4

Introduction to Data
Analytics and
CA030102 Machine Learning Core 4 4

Advanced Operating
CA030103 Systems Core 3 3

Data Structure using

CA030104 C Core 3 3

Python Programming
CA030105 for Analytics Core 3 3

Python & Data Core Lab

CA030106 Structure Lab I 8 3

II Mathematics for 20
CA030201 Data Analytics Core 4 4

Advanced Database
CA030202 Management system Core 4 4

Data Mining and

CA030203 Analytics Core 3 3

Programming with
CA030204 Java Core 4 4

Core Lab
CA030205 Java & SQL Lab II 8 3

Core
CA030206 Mini Project I 2 2
Mini
 Project I

III Statistical Modeling 21

CA030301 using R Core 4 4

Exploratory Data
CA030302 Analytics for NLP Core 4 4

Computational
Research
CA030303 Methodology Core 4 4

Elective 1 Elective 3 3

Statistical 5
Programming Lab Core Lab
CA030304 using R II 3

Core
Mini
CA030305 Mini Project II Project II 5 3

IV CA030401 Data Visualisation Core 5 4 19

Elective 2 Elective 5 4

Elective 3 Elective 5 4

CA030402 Project Core 10 5

Comprehensive
CA030403 viva-voce Core 2
 SEMESTER I

Teaching Total
Credit
Course Type of Hrs/Week Credit
Semester Course Name
Code Course
Theory Practical

I Statistics for Data 20

CA030101 Analytics Core 4 4

Introduction to
Data Analytics and
CA030102 Machine Learning Core 4 4

Advanced
CA030103 Operating Systems Core 3 3

Data Structure
CA030104 using C Core 3 3

Python
Programming for
CA030105 Analytics Core 3 3

Python & Data Core

CA030106 Structure Lab Lab I 8 3

CA030101 Statistics for Data Analytics

Instructional hours /week : 4
Total instructional hours : 72
Credits : 4
Module 1: Theory of Probability
Basic terminology – Mathematical probability – Statistical probability – Axiomatic approach
to probability – Some theorems on probability – Conditional probability – Multiplication
theorem of probability – Bayes’ theorem – Geometric probability
Module 2: Descriptive Measures
Frequency Distribution – Graphics representation of a frequency distribution – Averages –
Arithmetic Mean, median, mode – Geometric Mean – Harmonic Mean – Dispersion –
Measures of Dispersion – Coefficient of dispersion – Moments – Skewness – Kurtosis
Module 3: Probability distribution and hypothesis Testing
Distribution Function – Discrete random variables – Continuous random variable – Two
dimensional random variables – Discrete uniform distribution – Bernoulli distribution –
Binomial distribution – Geometric distribution – Normal distribution – Uniform distribution –
Exponential distribution – Types of sampling – Parameter and statistic – Tests of significance
– Procedure for testing of hypothesis

Module 4: Correlation and Regression analysis

Introduction - correlation and causation - types of correlation - Karl Pearson’s coefficient of
correlation-direct method of finding out correlation coefficient - calculation of correlation
coefficient when change of scale and origin is made. Regression: introduction - regression
equation of y on x -regression equation of x on y.
Module 5: Time series and data analysis life cycle
Some representative time series – Objectives of time series analysis – Approaches to time
series analysis – Statistical techniques for analysing time series – Stationary time series – The
time plot – Transformations – Analysing series that contain a trend – Analysing series that
contain seasonal variation – Autocorrelation and the correlogram - Handling real data
Data analytics lifecycle overview:Key roles for a successful analytics project – Various phases
of data analytics life cycle – Discovery – Data preparation – Model planning – Model building
– Communicating the results - Operationalizing the results
Books of study
1. Christopher Chatfield “The analysis of Time series An Introduction (Sixth Edition) “
2. Data Science and Big Data Analytics by EMC Education Services, Wiley Publications
3. S. P. Gupta- “Statistical Methods”, Sultan Chand & Sons.
4. S C Gupta and V K Kapoor Fundamentals of Mathematical Statistics
5. Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, Jerome Friedman “ The elements of Statistical
Learning”

CA030102 - Introduction to Data Analytics and Machine Learning

Instructional hours /week : 4
Total instructional hours : 72
Credits : 4
Module 1: Introduction to Data Analytics
Introduction, Types of data, Quality of data, Data Preprocessing - Example applications - Data
collection and management, Sources of data, Data collection, Exploring and fixing data, Data
storage and management, Using multiple data sources, - Basic Statistical Descriptions of Data,
Descriptive Statistics -- Exploratory Data analysis- Measuring Data Similarity and
Dissimilarity- Graphical representation of data.
Module 2: Foundations of Learning
Components of learning – learning versus design-characteristics of machine learning – learning
models – types of learning – training versus testing- Features – error measures -Supervised,
Unsupervised and Reinforcement Learning.
Module 3: Supervised Learning
Regression: Linear Regression - Model representation for single variable, Single variable
Cost Function, Gradient Decent for Linear Regression, Multivariable model representation,
Multivariable cost function, Ridge Regression, Lasso Regression,
Classification: Logistic Regression - Problem of Overfitting, Regularization - Nearest neighbor
models -- Decision Trees – Support Vector Machine, Kernels- Model Validation Approaches
Module 4: Unsupervised Learning:
Clustering: K means – clustering around medoids – hierarchical clustering – Ensemble learning
- bagging and random forests – boosting -- Dimensionality reduction -- Principal Component
Analysis, Linear Discriminant Analysis
Module 5: Artificial Neural Networks
Biological Neurons, Neural Networks Model representation, Intuition for Neural Networks,
Multiclass classification, Cost Function, Back Propagation Algorithm, Weights initialization,
Neural Network Training
Reference Books:
1. Han, Jiawei, Jian Pei, and Micheline Kamber, “Data mining: concepts and techniques”,
3 rd Edition, Elsevier, 2011.
2. T. M. Mitchell, “Machine Learning”, McGraw Hill, 2017.
3. K. P. Murphy, “Machine Learning: A probabilistic perspective”, MIT Press, 2012.
4. Machine Learning, Tom M. Mitchell
5. Building Machine Learning Systems with Python, Richert & Coelho
6. Yoshua Bengio, “Learning Deep Architectures for AI”, Now Publishers Inc (2009)

CA030103 - ADVANCED OPERATING SYSTEMS

Instructional hours /week : 3

Total instructional hours : 54
Credits : 3

Module 1

Computer system architecture – single processor systems, multiprocessor systems, clustered

systems. Operating system operations - dual mode and multimode operation. Process
management, Memory management, Storage management. Computing Environments-
Traditional computing, Mobile computing, Distributed systems, Client Server computing,
Peer-to-Peer computing, Virtualization, Cloud computing, Real-time embedded systems.
System structures - Operating system services, System calls, Types of system calls, Operating
system structure-Simple structure, Layered approach, Microkernals , Modules, Hybrid
systems.

Module 2

Process management - Process concept - Process state, PCB, Process Scheduling -Scheduling
queues, Schedulers, Context switch, Operations on processes - creation, termination,
Interprocess Communication- Shared memory systems , Message Passing systems.

Multithreaded Programming - Overview, Multithreading Models.

Process Scheduling – Basic Concepts, Scheduling criteria , Scheduling algorithms- FCFS, SJF,
Priority scheduling, RR scheduling, Multilevel queue scheduling, Multilevel Feedback queue
scheduling,

Module 3

Process Synchronization - The critical section problem- Peterson’s Solution, Synchronization

hardware, Mutex Locks, Semaphores, Monitors, Monitor usage

Deadlocks – System model, Deadlock characterisation, Methods for handling deadlocks,

Deadlock prevention, Deadlock avoidance, Deadlock detection, Recovery from deadlock.

Module 4

Memory management- Memory management strategies - Basic hardware, Address binding,

Logical Vs Physical address space, Dynamic loading, Dynamic linking and shared libraries ,
Swapping ,Contiguous memory allocation ,segmentation , Paging - Basic method , Hardware
support, Protection, Shared pages.

Virtual memory management :- Demand paging - Basic concepts, Performance of demand

paging, Page Replacement, Page Replacement algorithms - FIFO, Optimal page replacement,
LRU page replacement.

Module 5

Case study - The Linux System - Features, Advantages,Linux history , Design Principles,
Kernel Modules, Process Management, Scheduling - Process Scheduling, Real-time
Scheduling , Virtual Memory , File Systems, Interprocess Communication, Security .

Various types of shells available in Linux - Comparison between various shells - Linux
Commands for files and directories - cd, ls, cp ,rm, mkdir, rmdir, pwd, file, more, less . Creating
and viewing files using cat.

Reference Text

1. Abraham Silberschatz, Galvin, Gange, Operating Ssystem Concepts, 9th Edition, Wiley
Publishers.
2. Milan kovic, Operating Systems, Second Edition.
3. Official Red hat Linux Users Guide- Red hat, Wiley Dreamtech India.
4. Christopher Negus, Red Hat Linux Bible - 2005 Edition,Wiley Dreamtech India.
5. Yeswant Kanethkar, Unix Shell Programming,First Edition, BPB .

CA030104 - Data Structures Using C

Instructional hours /week : 3
Total instructional hours : 54
Credits :3

Module 1
Introduction: Variables, Data types, Conditional and Loop Structures, Pointers. Static and
dynamic memory allocation. Dynamic memory allocation and pointers, Memory allocation
operators in C- malloc(), calloc(), free() and realloc(). User defined data types in C. Recursion,
Recursive functions in C.
Concept of data structures, classification of data structures, Primitive and Non-primitive,
Operations on data structures.
Introduction to algorithms, Performance analysis-Space complexity, Time complexity,
Amortised complexity, asymptotic notations, Performance measurement.
Module 2
Arrays: Organization, Representation and implementation of arrays, examples.
Implementation of Stacks and Queues, Circular Queues, Priority Queues, Double ended
queues, Applications of stacks and queues.
Sorting and Searching techniques: Linear and Binary search, Selection sort, Merge sort,
Simple insertion sort, Quick sort, Shell sort, Radix sort.
Module 3
Lists: Representation and implementation of singly linked list, Circular linked lists, doubly
linked list, Linked list representation of stacks and queues, examples.
Dynamic storage management. Boundary tag system. Garbage collection and compaction.
Module 4
Trees: Representation and Implementation, Binary trees, insertion and deletion of nodes in
binary tree, binary tree traversals, Binary search trees, Threaded Binary trees, Balanced trees
(AVL trees), B- trees- Insertion and Deletion of nodes, Tree search
Module 5
Graphs: Directed Graphs, Shortest Path Problem, Undirected Graph, Spanning Trees,
Techniques for graphs –Breadth First Search (BFS) and traversal, Depth First Search (DFS)
and traversal
Hashing: Static hashing, hash tables, hash functions, overflow handling.
Reference Text
1. Ellis Horowitz, Sahni, Anderson-Freed, Fundamentals of Data Structures in C, Galgotia
Publications
2. G S Baluja, Data structures Through C, Pearson
3. Aaron M. Tanenbaum, Data Structures Using C, Prentice Hall International
4. Ashok N. Kamthane, Introduction to data structures in C, Pearson

CA030105 - Python Programming For Analytics

Instructional hours /week : 3

Total instructional hours : 54
Credits : 3

Module 1
Structure of Python Program, Underlying mechanism of Module Execution-Branching and
Looping-Problem Solving Using Branches and Loops-Functions – Lists and Mutability-
Problem Solving Using Lists and Functions. Sequences, Mapping and Sets- Dictionaries- -
Classes: Classes and Instances-Inheritance Exception Handling-Introduction to Regular
Expressions using ’re’ module.
Module 2
The NumPy Library, Ndarray,Basic Operations ,Indexing, Slicing, and Iterating, Conditions
and Boolean Arrays, Shape Manipulation, Array Manipulation,Structured Arrays, Reading and
Writing Array Data on Files The pandas Library—An Introduction, Introduction to pandas
Data Structures, Other Functionalities on Indexes, Operations between Data Structures,
Function Application and Mapping, Sorting and Ranking,.
Module 3
Introduction to Pandas Objects- Data indexing and Selection-Operating on Data in Pandas-
Handling Missing Data-Hierarchical Indexing – Combining Data Sets. Aggregation and
Grouping-Pivot TablesVectorized String Operations –Working with Time Series-High
Performance Pandas- and query ()
Module 4
Basic functions of matplotlib –Simple Line Plot, Scatter Plot-Density and Contour Plots-
Histograms, Binnings and Density-Customizing Plot Legends, Colour Bars- Three-
Dimensional Plotting in Matplotlib.

Module 5
Machine Learning with scikit-learn: The scikit-learn Library, Machine Learning :Supervised
and Unsupervised Learning , Training Set and Testing Set, Supervised Learning with scikit-
learn.
Reference Text :
 1. Jake Vander Plas ,Python Data Science Handbook – Essential Tools for Working with
Data, O‘Reilly Media,Inc, 2016
2. Zhang.Y. , An Introduction to Python and Computer Programming, Springer
Publications, 2016
3. Fabio Nelli , “Python Data Analytics Data Analysis and Science Using Pandas, matplotlib,
and the Python Programming Language ”, Apress, 2015
4. Wes McKinney, (2017) Python for Data Analysis: Data Wrangling with Pandas, NumPy,
and Ipython, 2 nd Edition, O‘Reilly Media.
5. Haslwanter, T.(2015) An Introduction to Statistics with Python, Springer

CA030106 – Python & Data Structure Lab

Instructional hours /week : 8
Total instructional hours : 144
Credits : 3

Data Structures Using C

1. Array implementation – Insertion of new element into a specified position, Deletion of
an element from the specified position within the array
2. Stack implementation – PUSH, POP and Traverse
3. Queue implementation –Insertion, deletion and Traverse
4. Circular Queue implementation –Insertion, deletion and Traverse
5. Deque (Double ended queue) implementation –Insertion, deletion and Traverse
6. INFIX to POSTFIX Conversion
7. INFIX to PREFIX conversion
8. POSTFIX evaluation
9. Searching - Linear and Binary search using arrays
10. Sorting – Selection sort, Merge sort, Simple insertion sort, Quick sort, Shell sort, Radix
sort
11. Lists implementation - Singly linked list, Circular linked list, Doubly linked list
12. Dynamic array implementation- Linked list representation and implementation of stack
and queue operations
13. Creation of binary tree, counting no. of nodes and display the nodes in a tree
14. Searching a node in a binary tree
15. Insertion and deletion of nodes in a B-Tree
16. Graphs – Implementation of BFS and DFS

Python Programming Lab

1. Python syntax, functions, packages and libraries-

2. Types-Expressions
3. Variables-String Operations.
4. Python Data Structures: lists & Tuple –Sets -Dictionaries.
 5. Programming Fundamentals: Conditions and Branching- Loops-Functions-Objects and
Classes
6. Importing Datasets: Understanding the Dataset
7. Importing and Exporting Data in Python
8. Introduction to python libraries: Numpy- Scikit- Pandas-Matplotlib.-
9. Data cleansing and pre-processing: Identify and Handle Missing Values
10. Data Formatting
11. Data Normalization Sets
12. Regression Models: Linear Regression (SLR & MLR)
13. Logistic Regression
14. Decision Tree
15. K Nearest Neighbor- Random Forest
16. Gradient Boosting algorithms: XGboost
17. Support Vector Machine
18. Clustering Techniques: K means clustering
19. Apriori algorithm.
20. Model Evaluation: Over-fitting, Under-fitting
 SEMESTER II

Teaching
Course Type of Hrs/Week Total
Semester Course Name Credit
Code Course Credit
Theory Practical

II Mathematics for 20
CA030201 Data Analytics Core 4 4

Advanced
Database
Management
CA030202 System Core 4 4

Data Mining and

CA030203 Analytics Core 3 3

Programming
CA030204 with Java Core 4 4

Core
CA030205 Java & SQL Lab Lab II 8 3

Core
Mini
CA030206 Mini Project I Project I 2 2

CA030201 – Mathematics for Data Analytics

Instructional hours /week : 4
Total instructional hours : 72
Credits : 4

Module 1
Mathematical Logic: Propositional Calculus: Statements and notations, Connectives: negation,
conjunction, disjunction, statement formulas and truth tables, conditional and biconditional,
Well-formed formulas, tautologies, equivalence of formulas, tautological implication. Normal
forms: Disjunctive and conjunctive normal forms.
Predicate calculus: Predicates, statement functions, variables and quantifiers, predicate
formulas, free & bound variables, universe of discourse.
Module 2
Set Theory- Sets, Set operations, Functions, Sequences and Summations

Module 3
Linear Algebra: Matrices and their properties (determinants, traces, rank, nullity, etc.);
Eigenvalues and eigenvectors; Matrix factorizations; Inner products; Distance measures;
Projections; Notion of hyperplanes; half-planes.

Module 4
Optimization: Unconstrained optimization; Necessary and sufficiency conditions for optima;
Gradient descent methods; Constrained optimization, KKT conditions; Introduction to non-
gradient techniques; Introduction to least squares optimization; Optimization view of machine
learning.

Module 5
Fuzzy logic: Introduction, Crisp set an overview, Fuzzy sets basic types, Basic concepts,
Characteristics and significance of paradigm shift.

Reference Text
1. J.P. Tremblay & R Manohar- Discrete Mathematical Structures with Applications to
Computer Science ,Mc Graw Hill.
2. G. Strang (2016). Introduction to Linear Algebra, Wellesley-Cambridge Press, Fifth
edition, USA.
3. George J Klir & Bo Yuan- Fuzzy sets and Fuzzy logic Theory and applications, Prentice
hall of India.
4. David G. Luenberger (1969). Optimization by Vector Space Methods, John Wiley &
Sons (NY)
5. Kenneth H Rosen- Discrete Mathematics and its applications, Sixth Edition
6. Edwin K P Chong and Stanislaw H Zak, An introduction to optimization , 4th Edition ,
Wiley

CA030202-- Advanced Database Management System

Instructional hours /week : 4
Total instructional hours : 72
Credits : 4

Module 1
Database, need for DBMS, users, DBMS architecture, data models, views of data, data
independence, database languages, Relational Model-Basic concepts, keys, integrity
constraints, ER model-basic concepts, ER diagram, weak entity set, ER to Relational,
relationships, generalization, aggregation, specialization
Module 2
Codd‘s rules, Relational model concepts , Relational algebra- Select, Project, Join, Relational
calculus-tuple relational calculus and domain relational calculus, Specifying constraints
management systems, Anomalies in a database, Functional dependencies, Normalization-First,
Second, Third, Boyce Codd normal forms, multi-valued dependency and Fourth normal form,
Join dependency and Fifth normal form.
Relational database query languages-Basics of SQL, Data definition in SQL- Data types,
Creation, Insertion, Viewing, Updation, Deletion of tables, Modifying the structure of the
tables, Renaming, Dropping of tables, Data constraints-I/O constraints, ALTER TABLE
command.
Module 3
Database manipulation in SQL- Computations done on the table- Select command, Logical
operators, Range searching, Pattern matching, Grouping data from tables in SQL, GROUP BY,
HAVING clauses, Joins-Joining multiple tables, Joining tables to itself, DELETE, UPDATE,
Views-Creation, Renaming the column of a view, Destroys view- Program with SQL, Security-
locks, Types of locks, Levels of locks, Cursors - working with cursors, error handling,
Developing stored procedures,-Creation, Statement blocks, Conditional execution, Repeated
execution, Cursor-based repetition, Handling Error conditions, Implementing triggers,
Creating triggers, Multiple trigger interaction.
Module 4
Concept of transaction, ACID properties, serializability, states of transaction, Concurrency
control, Locking techniques, Time stamp based protocols, Granularity of data items, Deadlock,
Failure classifications, storage structure, Recovery & atomicity, Log base recovery, Recovery
with concurrent transactions, Database backup & recovery, Remote Backup System, Database
security issues
Module 5
Object Oriented Database Management Systems (OODBMS) - concepts, need for OODBMS,
composite objects, issues in OODBMSs, advantages and disadvantages of OODBMS.
Distributed databases - motivation - distributed database concepts, types of distribution,
architecture of distributed databases, the design of distributed databases, distributed
transactions, commit protocols for distributed databases
Reference Text
1. Elmasri and Navathe, Fundamentals of Database Systems, 5th Edition, Pearson
2. Abraham Silbersehatz, Henry F. Korth and [Link], Database System Concepts, 6 th
Edition, Tata McGraw-Hill.
3. James [Link] and Paul N. Weinberg The complte reference SQL Second edition,Tata
McGraw Hill
CA030203-- Data Mining and Analytics

Instructional hours /week : 3

Total instructional hours : 54
Credits : 3

Module 1

Introduction to Data mining, Data Mining Tasks, KDD process, Technologies for data mining,
Application areas of data mining, Major issues in Data Mining, Data objects and Attribute
types- Nominal, Binary, Ordinal and Numeric attributes, Measuring the central tendency-
Mean, Median and Mode. Data Warehouse.
Module 2
Data Preprocessing: Needs of Pre-processing the Data, Data Cleaning- Missing Values, Noisy
Data, Data Cleaning as a Process. Data Integration- Redundancy and correlation analysis, Data
Reduction- Attribute Subset Selection, Dimensionality Reduction, Numerosity Reduction,
PCA. Data Transformation strategies, Data transformation by Normalization, Discretization
by Binning, Histogram Analysis
Module 3
Association Analysis- Frequent patterns, Basic terminology in association analysis- Binary
representation, Itemset and support count, Association Rule, Support and Confidence,
Frequent Item set generation- The Apriori Algorithm, Generating Association Rules from
Frequent Itemsets, FP Growth algorithm, Pattern evaluation Methods. From Association
Analysis to Correlation Analysis, Constraint-Based Frequent pattern Mining, Metarule-Guided
Mining of Association Rules.
Module 4
Classification :- Basic concepts, General approach to classification, Decision Tree Induction,
Basic Decision Tree algorithm, Attribute Selection Measures- Information Gain, Gain Ratio,
Gini Index, Bayes Classification methods- Bayes‘ Theorem, Naïve Bayesian Classification,
Rule-based Classification - Using IF-THEN Rules for Classification, Rule Extraction from a
Decision Tree, Rule Induction Using a Sequential Covering Algorithm. Metrics for evaluating
classifier performance, Cross validation. Classification by Back propagation- A Multilayer
Feed-Forward Neural Network, Defining a Network Topology, Backpropagation.

Module 5
Cluster Analysis: Introduction, Basic Clustering methods- Partitioning methods- k-Means and
k-Medoid. Hierarchical Methods - Agglomerative and Divisive Hierarchical Clustering.
Density Based Methods - DBSCAN, OPTICS, DENCLUE. Grid Based- STING, CLIQUE,
Outlier Analysis- what are outliers, Types of outliers, Outlier detection methods.
Reference Text
1. Jiawei Han & Micheline Kamber , Data Mining, Concepts and Techniques, , 3rd Edition.
2. Pang Ning Tan, Michael Steinbach and Vipin Kumar, Introduction to Data Mining, Pearson
India Education Services
3. Arun K Pujari, Data Mining Techniques, , University Press
4. Sam Anahory & Dennis Murray, Data Warehousing in the Real World, Pearson Education,
Asia.
5. Paulraj Ponnaiah, Data Warehousing Fundamentals, Wiley Student Edition

CA030204 - Programming with Java

Instructional hours /week : 4
Total instructional hours : 72
Credits : 4
Module 1: Object Oriented Programming Concepts and Basics of Java.
Java Programming Environment – JDK, Java Virtual Machine, Bytecode, Features of Java
Flow Control Statements – Conditional Statements, Iteration Statements, Jump Statements
Arrays –One Dimensional Array, Multi-dimensional Array , Object Oriented Programming
Concepts- ( Objects and Classes, Encapsulation, Inheritance, Polymorphism) , Type of
Inheritance , Method Overloading, Method Overriding, Dynamic Method Despatch
Module 2: Input/Output Handling
Constructors- Constructor Overloading , this, super, final, abstract and static Keywords,
Interfaces- Defining an Interface, Implementing Interface, Extending Interfaces. String - String
Handling Fundamentals, Comparison of String and StringBuffer Class, Special String
Operations- Character Extraction, String Comparison, Searching String, Modifying a String,
String Copy ,Input and Output Streams – Byte Stream , Character Stream
Module 3: Packages; Exception Handling and Thread
Packages – Defining Packages, Built in Packages ([Link], [Link], [Link], [Link],
[Link]), Importing Packages, Implementation of User Defined Packages, Access
Protection in Java, Exception Handling - try, catch, throw, throws and finally Statements,
Java’s Built-in Exceptions, Creating User Defined Exceptions. Threads- Thread Lifecycle,
Thread Priorities, The Thread Class, Runnable Interface, Creating a Thread – Implementing
Runnable, Extending Thread, Inter Thread Communication, Suspending Resuming and
Stopping Threads.
Module 4: GUI Programming
Basic Event Handling – Delegation Event Model, Important Event Classes And Listener
Interfaces, Handling Mouse and Keyboard Events, Adapter Classes, Swing -Window
Fundamentals – Class Hierarchy, Frame, Creating a Simple Window Based Application,
ImageIcon, JLabel, JTextField, JTextArea, JButton, JCheckBox, JRadioButton, JList,
JComboBox, JTable, JTabbedPane, JScrollPane, Layout Management – The FlowLayout,
BorderLayout, GridLayout, CardLayout
Module 5: File, Database and RMI
File Management - Reading and Writing Files (FileInputStream and FileOutputStream
Classes), JDBC – Components of JDBC, JDBC architecture, various kinds of JDBC drivers,
The Structured Query Language, The Connection Interface, The Statement Interface, The
PreparedStatement Interface, Scrollable and Updatable ResultSets, RowSets, Transactions.
Remote Method Invocation (RMI) – Client Server Application using RMI.
Reference Text
1. Herbert Schildt Java 2 The Complete Reference, Tata McGraw Hill (5th Edn.)
2. DT Editorial Services, Java 8 Programming Black Book, Dreamtech Press.
3. James. P. Cohoon, Programming java 5.0, Jack. W. Davison (Tata McGraw Hill)
4. C Thomas Wu, An introduction to Object Oriented Programming with Java, , Tata
McGraw Hill, (2006)
5. Wigglesworth and McMillan, Java Programming: Advanced Topics, , Cengage Learning
India, 3rd Edn.
6. Bernard Van Haecke, JDBC: Java Database Connectivity, , IDG Books India (2000)

CA030205 –Java and SQL Lab

Instructional hours /week : 8
Total instructional hours : 144
Credits : 3

Advanced Java Programming

1. Basic Concepts and File Handling
1.1. Inheritance, Polymorphism
1.2. Constructors
1.3. Interface
1.4. Package
1.5. One Dimensional and Two Dimensional Array Manipulation
1.6. String Handling (Character Extraction, String Comparison, Searching String,
Modifying a String, String Copy)
1.7. Exception (Built-in and User Defined)
1.8. Thread (Using Runnable Interface and Thread Class)
1.9. File management (File reading, Writing, Appending and Content Replacing)
2. GUI, Database and RMI
2.1. Event Handling (Keyboard and Mouse Events)
2.2. Working with Swing ( ImageIcon, JTextField, JTextArea, JButton, JCheckBox,
JRadioButton, JComboBox, JList, JTable)
2.3. Layout Management (The FlowLayout, BorderLayout, GridLayout, CardLayout)
2.4. Simple Programs of Database Connectivity
2.5. Demo Client Server Application using RMI

SQL

1. Creating database tables and using data types (create table, modify table, drop table).
2. Data Manipulation (adding data with INSERT, modify data with UPDATE, deleting
3. records with DELETE).
4. Implementing the Constraints (NULL and NOT NULL, primary key and foreign key
Constraint, unique, check and default constraint).
5. Retrieving Data Using SELECT (simple SELECT, WHERE, IN, BETWEEN,
ORDERED BY, DISTINCT and GROUP BY).
6. Aggregate Functions (AVG, COUNT, MAX, MIN, SUM).
7. String functions.
8. Date and Time Functions.
9. Use of union, intersection, set difference.
10. Implement Nested Queries & JOIN operation.
11. Performing different operations on a view.
12. Stored Procedure Programming – Simple Procedures – decision making – Loops – Error
handlers – Cursors – Functions - Triggers – Calling Stored Procedure from Triggers.

CA030206 Mini Project I

Instructional hours /week : 2

Total instructional hours : 36
Credits : 2

Mini Project aims at giving students hands-on experience in applying the programming
knowledge in python to solve a real-world situation/problem using techniques in Data mining
and Machine learning. Students must take up individual project. Evaluation of the project is
internal.
 SEMESTER III

Teaching Hrs/Week
Course Type of
Semester Course Name Credit
Code Course
Theory Practical

III Statistical Modeling using

CA030301 R Core 4 4

Exploratory Data Analytics

CA030302 for NLP Core 4 4

Computational Research
CA030303 Methodology Core 4 4

Elective 1 Elective 3 3

Statistical Programming Core Lab 5

CA030304 Lab using R II 3

Core Mini
CA030305 Mini project II Project II 5 3

CA030301 - Statistical Modeling using R

Instructional hours /week : 4
Total instructional hours : 72
Credits : 4
Module 1: Introduction to Statistical Modelling
Introduction: Statistics in Real World – Models in data analysis - Populations and samples-
Variables and factors - Observational and experimental Data - Collecting Good Quality Data-
Statistical models.
Module 2: R : An Introduction
Introduction to R - Work spaces - R Syntax and programming - Variables - Operators, Vectors
- List - Matrices - Arrays, Factors, Data Frames - Values Reading data using R - Basic read
write operations.
Module 3: R Programming
Conditions and Loops - Functions: Call & Write - Exception Handling - Progress & Timings -
Visibility
Module 4: Elementary Statistics
Describing Raw Data - Sampling Distributions - Confidence Intervals - Hypothesis Testing -
Components - Testing Means - Testing Proportions & Categorical Variables - General
Concepts of Simple Linear Regression.
Module 5: Statistical Testing And Modeling
Sampling Distributions and Confidence - Hypothesis Testing - Analysis of Variance - Simple
Linear Regression - Multiple Linear Regression - Linear Model Selection and Diagnostics.
Reference Text
1. Tilman M. Davies “ The Book of R” 2016, No Starch Press
2. W. J. Krzanowski “ An Introduction to Statistical Modelling” Wiley
3. Andy Field , Jeremy Miles, Zoe Field “Discovering Statistics Using R” , April 5th 2012
by Sage Publications Ltd
4. Joseph Schmuller , “ Statistical Analysis with R For Dummies” May 2017, Wiley

CA030302—Exploratory Data Analytics for NLP

Instructional hours /week : 4
Total instructional hours : 72
Credits : 4
Module I
Introduction-Natural language processing and its neighbors-Three themes in natural language-
processing-Learning and knowledge-Search and learning-Relational, compositional, and distributional
perspectives.

Module II
Language Processing and Python -Computing with Language: Texts and Words-Texts as Lists of
Words-Computing with Language: Simple Statistics-Making Decisions and Taking Control-
Automatic Natural Language Understanding.

Module III
Fundamentals of Exploratory Data Analysis-Significance of EDA-Making sense of Data-Software
tools-Getting started with EDA-Numpy,Pandas,SciPy,Matplotlib.
Visual Aids for EDA-Line Chart,Bar Chart,Scatter Plot,Pie Chart, Table Chart, Polar
Chart,Histograms,Lollipop Chart-Choosing the best chart.

Module IV
Data Transformation-Background-Merging database-style dataframes-Transformation Techniques-
Data duplication-Replacing values-Handling missing data-Renaming axes indexes-Discretization and
binning-Outlier detection and filtering-Benefits of data transformation.
Grouping Datasets-Groupby mechanics-Data aggregation-Pivot tables.

Module V
Hypothesis testing and regression- Hypothesis testing-p-hacking-Types of regression-Constructing a
linear regression model-Implementing a multiple linear regression model
Model Development and Evaluation-Supervised and unsupervised learning-Reinforcement learning-
Machine Learning Workflow.
Reference Text
1. Natural Language Processing by Jacob Eisenstein
2. Natural Language Processing with Python by Steven Bird, Ewan Klein, Edward Lopper
3. Hands-On Exploratory Data Analysis with Python by Suresh Kumar Mukhiya, Usman Ahmed

CA030303— Computational Research Methodology

Instructional hours /week : 4
Total instructional hours : 72
Credits : 4
Module 1: Research Methodology
Research Methodology: Meaning of Research, Objectives of Research, Motivation in
Research, Types of Research, Research Approaches, Significance of Research, Research
Methods versus Methodology, Research and Scientific Method, Research Process, Reading
and Reviewing-Research literature, Finding Research Papers, Critical Reading, Developing a
literature Review, Guidelines for Research Skills and Awareness, Validity of Research,Criteria
of Good Research.
Module 2: Data in Research
Introduction, Need for Data Collection, Methods of Data Collection, Principles for Accessing
Research Data, Data Processing, Data Analysis, Presentation of Data, Error Analysis,
Scientific Models. Scientific Methodology - Introduction Rules and Principles of Scientific
Method, Hypothesis,Testing of Hypothesis, Basic concepts, Procedure,Important parametric
tests: z-test ,t-test, χ 2 -square test, F test
Module 3: Research Methods for Computer Science
History of ideas in computing, Evolution of Computing Research, Overview of Research
Methods: Measurements based research methods - Deductive Methods - Inductive Methods -
The significance of Interdisciplinary research
Module 4: Ethics in Research
Ethics in Research –Research Ethics, Importance of Ethics in Research, Ethics values and
Principles, Some Ethical issues ,Plagiarism, Misuse of Privileged Information, Misuse of Data,
Authorship and other publication issues, Copy Right, Intellectual Property Rights.
Module 5: Reporting and Thesis Writing
Presentation of algorithms, Environment of Algorithms, Asymptotic Cost. Graphs. Technical
Reports- Structuring General format, Report-Bibliography referencing and [Link]
in Practice- Literature Review, Journals, Conference Proceedings, journal Impact Factor,
citation Index, h Index .Application of Computer in Research --MS office and its application
in Research, Use of Internet in Research – Websites, search Engines, E-journal and E-Library.
Reference Text
1. Kothari, C.R., 1990. Research Methodology: Methods and Techniques. New Age
International. Publishers( Second revised edition)
2. Krishnan Nallaperumal, “Engineering Research Methodology : A Computer Science and
Engineering and Information and Communication Technologies Perspective. ” (First
Edition)
3. Justin Zobel,Writing For Computer Science, Springer (Third Edition)
4. K Prathapan,Research Methodology for Scientific Writing ,I.K International Publishing
House [Link]
5. S.P Satarkar, S.V., 2000. Intellectual Property Rights and Copy right. Ess Publications

ELECTIVES

CA850301— Semantic Web and Web Scraping

Instructional hours /week : 3
Total instructional hours : 72
Credits : 3
Module 1: Introduction to Semantic Web
Web 2.0 and 3.0 – Meaning of Semantic Data – Distributed web of data – Metadata - Features
of semantic web – Data across the web – The basics of semantic web - The Limits of the web
– The vision of the semantic web – Semantic web standards – RDF – RDF Scheme (RDFS) –
OWL Web Ontology Language – SPARQL Protocol – RDF Query Language (SPARQL) -
Need of RDFS – Machine Readability – core elements of RDFS – XML Schema – RDF
schema

Module 2: Knowledge Representation Methods

The concept of Ontology - SKOS – Representation of thesauri - Glossaries – Scheme
classification – Taxonomies – Controlled Vocabularies - Hierarchical Structure – Formal
Representations - Standard Namespaces – JSON based serialization for Linked Data - RDF
Triple stores – Turtle – RDFa – Internal Identifiers - URI – RDFS – Classes – Resources –
Inferred Property Characterization – Literals – Linked Open Data – DBpedia – Querying RDF
Graphs – Vocabularies – Graph based validation - Shape constraint Language (SHACL)
Module 3: Data Integration
Data Integration issues- Data Interoperability – Data Migration – Data Representation Formats
– Data Silos – Linked Data Management – Knowledge Mining Stack – NLP – Named Entity
Recognition – Machine Learning – Knowledge Graphs
Module 4: Use cases & Contemporary Issues
Use cases Specifications and Discussion: - Transportation: Data Sources – Representation –
Linked Data Mapping - Knowledge Modeling – Telecommunication – Knowledge Modeling
– Customer Care Support Documents – Internal Reports – Named Entity Recognition – Linked
Data Mapping.
Contemporary Issues : Customer provider mismatch – Interlinking domain specific
information – Combining different services from different providers – contrast with
contemporary web applications Markup languages – Object Access Protocols – Service
description – Discovery – Integration
Module 5: Web Scraping
Introduction - Dealing with HTTP & Java Script - Web Scrawling - Managerial and Legal
Concerns.

Reference Text
1. Dean Allemang, James Hendler: “Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist Effective
Modeling in RDFs and OWL”, 2nd Edition, 2008.
2. Seppe vanden Broucke, Bart Baesens “Practical Web Scraping for Data Science: Best
Practices and Examples with Python”, Apress
3. Liyang Yu, “Introduction to the Semantic Web and Semantic web services” Chapman &
Hall/CRC, Taylor & Francis group, 2007.
4. Toby Segaran, Colin Evans, Jamie Taylor, “Programming the Semantic Web”, 1st
Edition, July 2009.
5. Pollock, J.T.: Semantic web for dummies. Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, 2009.

CA860301— Social Media Mining

Instructional hours /week : 4
Total instructional hours : 72
Credits : 3
Module 1:
Introduction-New Challenges for Mining, Graph basics- Graph Representation , Types of
Graphs, Connectivity in Graphs, Special Graphs, graph algorithms, Network measures
centrality, transitivity and reciprocity, balance and status, similarity, Network Models -
Properties of Real-World Networks, Random Graphs, Small-World Model , Preferential
Attachment Model
Module 2:
Data Mining Essentials- Data, Data Preprocessing, Data Mining Algorithms, Supervised
Learning , Unsupervised Learning.
Module 3:
Communities and Interactions- Community Analysis, Community Evolution, Community
Evaluation Information Diffusion in Social Media- Herd Behavior, Information Cascades ,
Diffusion of Epidemics.
Module 4:
Influence and Homophily- MeasuringAssortativity , Influence, Homophily , Distinguishing
Influence and Homophily
Recommendation in Social Media- Challenges , Classical Recommendation Algorithms,
Recommendation Using Social , Evaluating Recommendations
Module 5:
Behavior Analytics- Individual Behavior, Individual Behavior Analysis, Individual Behavior
Modelling, Individual Behavior Prediction, Collective Behavior
Reference Text
1. Reza Zafarani, Mohammad Ali Abbasi. Huan, “ Social Media Mining- An
Introduction”, Cambridge University Press, 2014.
2. Jure Leskovec,AnandRajaraman, Jeffrey D. Ullman, “SMining of Massive Datasets”.

CA870301— Sentiment Analytics

Instructional hours /week : 3
Total instructional hours : 72
Credits : 3
Module 1: Introduction to Sentiment Analysis
Introduction: Sentiment Analysis Applications - Sentiment Analysis Research - Sentiment
Analysis as Mini NLP. The Problem of Sentiment Analysis: Definition of Opinion - Definition
of Opinion Summary - Affect, Emotion, and Mood - Different Types of Opinions - Author
and Reader Standpoint. Document Sentiment Classification: Supervised Sentiment
Classification - Unsupervised Sentiment Classification - Sentiment Rating Prediction - Cross-
Domain Sentiment Classification - Cross-Language Sentiment Classification - Emotion
Classification of Documents.
Module 2: Subjectivity Classification and Challenges
Sentence Subjectivity and Sentiment Classification: Subjectivity - Sentence Subjectivity
Classification - Sentence Sentiment Classification - Dealing with Conditional Sentences -
Dealing with Sarcastic Sentences - Cross-Language Subjectivity and Sentiment Classification
- Using Discourse Information for Sentiment Classification - Emotion Classification of
Sentences.
Module 3: Aspect Oriented Classification
Aspect Sentiment Classification: - Rules of Sentiment Composition - Negation and Sentiment
- Modality and Sentiment - Coordinating Conjunction But - Sentiment Words in Non-opinion
Contexts - Rule Representation - Word Sense Disambiguation and Co reference Resolution.
Aspect and Entity Extraction: Frequency-Based Aspect Extraction - Exploiting Syntactic
Relations - Using Supervised Learning - Mapping Implicit Aspects - Grouping Aspects into
Categories - Exploiting Topic Models - Entity Extraction and Resolution - Opinion Holder
and Time Extraction.
Module 4: Sentiment Lexicon generation and Summarization
Sentiment Lexicon Generation: Dictionary-Based Approach - Corpus-Based Approach -
Desirable and Undesirable Facts. Analysis of Comparative Opinions: Problem Definition -
Identify Comparative Sentences - Identifying the Preferred Entity Set - Special Types of
Comparison - Entity and Aspect Extraction. Opinion Summarization and Search: Aspect-
Based Opinion Summarisation - Enhancements to Aspect-Based Summary - Contrastive View
Summarization - Traditional Summarization - Summarization of Comparative Opinions -
Opinion Search - Existing Opinion Retrieval Techniques. Mining Intentions: Problem of
Intention Mining - Intention Classification - Fine-Grained Mining of Intentions.
Module 5: Identifying intention, fake and quality of opinion
Detecting Fake or Deceptive Opinions: Different Types of Spam - Supervised Fake Review
Detection - Supervised Yelp Data Experiment - Automated Discovery of Abnormal Patterns -
Model Based Behavioral Analysis - Group Spam Detection - Identifying Reviewers with
Multiple User ids - Exploiting Business in Reviews - Some Future Research Directions.
Quality of Reviews: Quality Prediction as a Regression Problem - Other Methods - Some New
Frontiers.
Reference Text
1. Bing Liu “Sentiment Analysis: Mining Opinions, Sentiments and Emotions, Cambridge
University Press, 2015.
2. Bing Liu “Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining, Morgan & Claypool Publishers,
2012.
3. Erik Cambria, Dipankar Das “A Practical Guide to Sentiment Analysis” Springer, 2017.

CA030304 –Statistical Programming Lab using R

Instructional hours /week : 5
Total instructional hours : 90
Credits : 3

Statistical Programming Lab using R

Cycle 0 / Prerequisite : Introduction to R
⚫ Work spaces
⚫ Variables
⚫ Operators
⚫ Vectors
 ⚫ List
⚫ Matrices
⚫ Arrays
⚫ Factors
Cycle1: Programming with R
⚫ Set Conditions and Loops
⚫ Create Functions and use them
⚫ Try Exception Handling
Cycle 2: Getting Used to R: Describing Data
⚫ Viewing and Manipulating Data
⚫ Plotting Data
⚫ Reading in Your Own Data
Cycle 3: Visualizing Data
⚫ Tables, charts and plots.
⚫ How to find the mean median standard deviation and quantiles of a set of observations.
⚫ Students may use real as well as artificial data sets
Cycle 4: Probability Distributions.
⚫ Generate and Visualize Discrete and continuous distributions using the statistical
environment. Demonstration of CDF and PDF uniform and normal, binomial Poisson
distributions.
⚫ Students are expected to generate artificial data using and explore various distribution
and its properties. Various parameter changes may be studied.
Cycle 5: Densities of Random Variables
⚫ Off the Shelf Distributions in R
⚫ Matching a Density to Data
⚫ More About Making Histograms
Cycle 6: Binomial Distribution
⚫ Study of binomial distribution. Plots of density and distribution functions. Normal
⚫ approximation to the Binomial distribution.
Cycle 7: Building Confidence in Confidence Intervals
⚫ Populations Versus Samples
⚫ Large Sample Confidence Intervals
⚫ Simulating Data Sets
⚫ Evaluating the Coverage of Confidence Intervals
Cycle 8: Perform Tests of Hypotheses
⚫ How to perform tests of hypotheses about the mean when the variance is known.
⚫ How to compute the p-value.
 ⚫ Explore the connection between the critical region, the test statistic, and the p-value
Cycle 9: Correlation
⚫ How to calculate the correlation between two variables.
⚫ How to make scatter plots.
⚫ Use the scatter plot to investigate the relationship between two variables
Cycle 10: Estimating a Linear Relationship
⚫ A Statistical Model for a Linear Relationship
⚫ Least Squares Estimates
⚫ The R Function lm
⚫ Scrutinizing the Residuals

CA030305 Mini Project II

Instructional hours /week : 5

Total instructional hours : 90
Credits : 3

Mini Project aims at giving students hands-on experience in applying the programming
knowledge in python to develop a real application for data analytics. Students must take up
individual projects. Evaluation of the project is external.
 SEMESTER IV

Teaching
Course Type of Hrs/Week Total
Semester Course Name Credit
Code Course Credit
Theory Practical

IV CA030401 Data Visualisation Core 5 4 19

Elective 2 Elective 5 4

Elective 3 Elective 5 4

CA030402 Project Core 10 5

Comprehensive
CA030403 viva-voce Core 2

CA030401— Data Visualisation

Instructional hours /week : 5
Total instructional hours : 90
Credits : 4
Module 1: Introduction to Data Visualisation
Definition – Methodology – Seven Stages of Data Visualisation - Data Visualisation Tools.
Visualising Data: Mapping Data onto Aesthetics – Visualising Amounts - Visualising
Distributions: Histograms and Density Plots – Visualising Propositions: – Visualising
Associations: Among Two or More Quantitative Variables – Visualising Time Series and
Other Functions of an Independent Variable – Trends – Visualising Geospatial Data.
Module 2: R : Interactive Data Visualisation
Introduction to D3 - Fundamental Technology: The Web – HTML – DOM – CSS – JavaScript
– SVG. D3 Setup – Generating Page Elements – Binding Data - Drawing with data – Scales:
Domains and Ranges – Normalization – Creating a Scale – Scaling the Scatter Plot – Other
Methods and Other Scales. Axes – Modernizing the Chart – Update the Data – Transition –
Updates – Interactivity.
Module 3: D3 Based Reusable Chart Library
Setup and Deployment – Generate Chart – Customize Chart: Additional Axis – Show Axis
Label – Change Chart Type – Format Values – Size – Color – Padding –Tooltip. Use APIs:
Load and Unload – Show and Hide – Focus – Transform – Groups – Grid – Regions – Flow
– Revert – Toggle –Legend – Sub chart – Zoom – Resize. Customize Style. Building Real
time and Live Updating animated graphs with C3.
Module 4: Tableau Introduction
Environment Setup – Navigation – File & Data Types. TA SOURCE: Custom Data View –
Extracting Data – Fields Operations – Editing Meta Data – Data Joining – Data Blending.
Worksheets.
Module 5: Basic and Advanced Charts in Tableau
Bar Chart – Line Chart – Pie Chart – Scatter Plot – Bubble Chart –Gantt Chart – Histograms -
Waterfall Charts. Dashboard – Formatting – Forecasting – Trend Lines.
Reference Text
1. Ben Fry, “Visualizing Data: Exploring and Explaining Data with the Processing
Environment”, O'Reilly, 1st Edition, 2008.
2. Scott Murray, “Interactive data visualization for the web: An Introduction to Designing
with D3”, O'Reilly, 2nd Edition, 2017.
3. Joshua N. Milligan, “Learning Tableau 2019: Tools for Business Intelligence, data prep,
and visual analytics”, Packt Publishing Limited, 2019.
4. Claus O. Wilke, “Fundamentals of Data Visualization: A Primer on Making Informative
and Compelling Figures”, [Link], 2019.

ELECTIVES

CA850401— Text Analytics

Instructional hours /week : 5
Total instructional hours : 90
Credits : 4
Module 1: Text Mining
Text Mining - Definition - General Architecture – Core Text mining Operations. Nature of
unstructured and semi-structured text, Collecting documents NLP : Text pre-processing
Sentence Segmentation tokenization - lemmatization - stemming - Parsing text - keywords,-
POS, Bag of Words Model, n-grams, chunking and Named Entity Recognition (NER) Corpus
- sentence boundary determination - Textual information to numerical vectors -vector
generation for prediction- document standardization and Representation – Inverted Index-term
document matrix (TDM)-TDM Frequency
Module 2: Information retrieval and Extraction
Information retrieval- keyword search - Vector space scoring, Models - web- based document
search-matching-inverted lists. Information extraction-Architecture - Co-reference - Named
Entity and Relation Extraction-Template filling and database construction –Applications.
Inductive - Unsupervised Algorithms for Information Extraction. Text Summarization
Techniques -Topic Representation -Influence of Context -Indicator representations.
Module 3: Text Categorisation
Text Categorisation – Definition – knowledge engineeringTextClassificationFeature Selection
for Text Classification, Gini Index, Information Gain .Evaluating model : confusion matrix,
class specific measure Classification models : Decision Tree Classifiers -Rule- based
Classifiers - Naive Bayes Classifiers - Linear Classifiers-Classification of Linked and Web
Data –Text Clustering – Definition- Feature Selection and Transformation Methods for Text
Clustering –Distance and similarities-Hierarchical cluster –K-means -Semi- Supervised
Clustering -Transfer LearningPattern Extraction - Apriori Algorithm – FP Tree algorithm -
Results summaries.
Module 4: Probabilistic Models for Text Mining
Probabilistic Models: Introduction, Mixture Models, Stochastic Processes in Bayesian
Nonparametric Models, Graphical Models,Probabilistic Models with Constraints, Parallel
Learning [Link] Models for Information Extraction -Hidden Markov
Models - Stochastic Context-Free Grammars - Maximal Entropy Modeling -Maximal Entropy
Markov Models - Conditional Random Fields.
Module 5: Text Analytics Use Cases
Text Analytics in Social Media, Modeling text sentiments, Spam Detection, Mining Text
Streams, Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis, Text Visualization Approaches -
Architectural Considerations –Common Visualization Approaches for text mining.
Reference Text
1. Murugan Anandarajan "Practical Text Analytics: Maximizing the Value of Text Data",
Springer; 2018
2. Charu C. Aggarwal, “Machine Learning for Text” Springer, 2018.
3. Steven Bird, Ewan Klein and Edward Loper”Natural Language Processing with Python”

CA860401— Business Intelligence

Instructional hours /week : 5
Total instructional hours : 90
Credits : 4
Module 1:
Business intelligence: Introduction, Concepts and Applications. Business Intelligence for better
decisions, Business Intelligence types, tools, skills, applications. Decision making and
Analytics - business intelligence, analytics and decision support. Foundation and technologies
for decision making.

Module 2:
Business applications of Decision Trees, Regression, Artificial Neural Networks, Cluster
Analysis, Association Rule Mining - Techniques, Algorithm, Exercise, Advantages and
Disadvantages.

Module 3:
Big data and future directions for Business Analytics- Big Data Analytics, Business Analytics
,Emerging Trends and Future Impacts. Business applications of Big Data, Technologies and
Management Big data.

Module 4:
Predictive Analytics: Data mining in Business Intelligence- Text Mining,Web Mining -
Business applications, practices and algorithms. Descriptive Analytics - Data warehousing,
Business Reporting, Visual Analytics and Business Performance Management.

Module 5:

Understanding BI and Mobility , BI and Cloud Computing , Business Intelligence for ERP
Systems, Social CRM and BI

Reference Text
1. Business Intelligence and Data Mining ,Anil K. Maheshwari, PhD,Business Expert
Press, LLC,2015
2. BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AND ANALYTICS: SYSTEM FOR DECISION
SUPPORT,Ramesh Sharda(Oklahoma State University), Dursun Delen(Oklahoma
State University),Efraim Turban(University of Hawaii), Pearson Education,Inc.,
2015.10th Edition
3. Fundamentals of Business Analytics, 2ed,R N Prasad, Seema Acharya

CA870401— Internet of Things and Data Management

Instructional hours /week : 5
Total instructional hours : 90
Credits : 4
Module 1: Introduction to IoT
Introduction to IoT - Enabling technologies of IoT - IoT Architectures - IoT Data Management
and Analytics - IoT levels and deployment templates – Application domains of IoT.
Module 2: Data and Knowledge Management in IoT
Stream Processing for IoT : Introduction - Foundations - Continuous logic processing systems
- challenges and future.
Distributed Data Analytics for IoT : Introduction - Anomaly Detection Types - Incremental
Logical Modeling
Module 3: Cloud Computing & Fog Computing : IoT perspective
Cloud Computing : Introduction, Architecture, Managing IoT resources, Framework for
intelligent applications
Fog Computing : Introduction, Characteristics, Architecture, Application, Research
Module 4: IoT Enablers and Solutions
Introduction, Embedded Device Programming Languages, Message Passing in Devices,
Coordination Languages, Polyglot Programming, IoT programming Approaches, Existing IoT
frameworks, Virtualisation and Virtual Machines.

Module 5: IoT Challenges & Applications

Governing Internet of Things: Issues, Approaches, and New Paradigms, Obfuscation and
Diversification for Securing the Internet of Things (IoT), Applications of IoT
Reference Text
1. Rajkumar Buyya, Amir Vahid Dastjerdi, “Internet of Things Principles and Paradigms”,
First Edition, Morgan Kaufman, 2016.
2. ArshdeepBahga, Vijay Madisetti, „Internet of Things: A Hands-On Approach‟,
Universities Press, 2015.
3. Michael Margolis, “Arduino Cookbook” 2nd Edition, O'Reilly Media, 2012.
4. Charles Platt, “Make Electronics – Learning by discovery”, O'Reilly Media, 2015.

CA850402— Big Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence

Instructional hours /week : 5
Total instructional hours : 90
Credits : 4
Module 1: Introduction to Big Data
Introduction to Big Data: - Evolution – Importance – Sources – Myths - Characteristics– Data
Science Components - Usecases – Data Processing Models – Limitations of Conventional
Data Processing Approaches - Data Discovery Traditional Approach, Big Data Exploration -
Data Augmentation – Operational Analysis – Security and Intelligence – Data Analytics
Classifications - Descriptive – Diagnostic - Predictive – Prescriptive – Augmented – Pervasive
Analytics.
Module 2: Big Data Technologies
Big Data Technologies - Hadoop: Architecture - HDFS - MAPREDUCE : Frame work, PIG:
Features - Modes - commands- functions, HIVE: Features - Architecture - Data Units, SPARK:
Advantages - Features - SPARK Ecosystem, SCALA Framework, NoSQL : Ideology &
Databases - HBASE: Architecture- Managing large data sets with HBase,
Module 3: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: What is AI?, Importance of AI, – Knowledge:
Definition and importance, Knowledge-based concepts, Knowledge Representation schemes:
Formalised Symbolic Logics - Dealing with Inconsistencies and Uncertainties– Probabilistic
Reasoning-
Module 4: Knowledge Organization and Manipulation
Search: Uninformed and informed - Graph Search, Matching Techniques - Structures -
Measures - Patterns - Matching Algorithms, Knowledge Organization and Management -
Indexing and Retrieval Technique - Knowledge Integration - Memory Organization System.
Module 5: Expert Systems
Experts Systems: Overview of an Expert System, Structure of an Expert Systems, Different
Types of Expert Systems-Rule Based, Model Based, Case Based and Hybrid Expert Systems,
Knowledge Ac - quisition and Validation Techniques, Black Board Architecture, Knowledge
Building System Tools, Expert System Shells
Reference Text
1. V. Bhuvaneswari, T. Devi, “Big Data Analytics: A Practitioner’s Approach”, Sci-Tech
Publications, 2016
2. D. W. Patterson, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Expert system, Prentice Hall
of India
3. Field Cady, “The Data Science Handbook”, John Wiley & Sons, Publishers, ISBN:
9781119092940, 2017
4. Elainc Rich, “Artificial Intelligence”, Mc Graw Hill.

CA860402— Business Data Analytics

Instructional hours /week : 5
Total instructional hours : 90
Credits : 4

Module 1: Business Analytics Overview

Introduction – Drivers for Business Analytics – Applications of Business Analytics: Marketing
and Sales, Human Resource, Healthcare, Product Design, Service Design, Customer Service
and Support – Skills Required for a Business Analyst – Framework for Business Analytics Life
Cycle for Business Analytics Process.

Module 2: Business Analytics Essentials

Descriptive Statistics – Using Data – Types of Data – Data Distribution Metrics: Frequency,
Mean, Median, Mode, Range, Variance, Standard Deviation, Percentile, Quartile, z-Score,
Covariance, Correlation – Data Visualization: Tables, Charts, Line Charts, Bar and Column
Chart, Bubble Chart, Heat Map – Data Dashboards.

Module 3: Modeling Uncertainty And Statistical Inference

Modeling Uncertainty: Events and Probabilities – Conditional Probability – Random Variables
– Discrete Probability Distributions – Continuous Probability Distribution – Statistical
Inference: Data Sampling – Selecting a Sample – Point Estimation – Sampling Distributions –
Interval Estimation – Hypothesis Testing.

Module 4:Analytics Using Hadoop And Mapreduce Framework

Introducing Hadoop – RDBMS versus Hadoop – Hadoop Overview – HDFS (Hadoop
Distributed File System) – Processing Data with Hadoop – Introduction to MapReduce –
Features of MapReduce – Algorithms Using Map-Reduce: Matrix-Vector Multiplication,
Relational Algebra Operations, Grouping and Aggregation – Extensions to MapReduce.

Module 5:Other Data Analytical Frameworks

Overview of Application development Languages for Hadoop – PigLatin – Hive – Hive Query
Language (HQL) – Introduction to Pentaho, JAQL – Introduction to Apache: Sqoop, Drill and
Spark, Cloudera Impala – Introduction to NoSQL Databases – Hbase and MongoDB.

Reference Text
1. VigneshPrajapati, ―Big Data Analytics with R and Hadoop‖, Packt Publishing, 2013.
2. Umesh R Hodeghatta, UmeshaNayak, ―Business Analytics Using R – A Practical
Approach‖, Apress, 2017.
3. AnandRajaraman, Jeffrey David Ullman, ―Mining of Massive Datasets‖, Cambridge
University Press, 2012.
4. Jeffrey D. Camm, James J. Cochran, Michael J. Fry, Jeffrey W. Ohlmann, David R.
Anderson,―Essentials of Business Analytics‖, Cengage Learning, second Edition, 2016
5. U. Dinesh Kumar, ―Business Analytics: The Science of Data-Driven Decision
Making‖, Wiley, 2017.

CA870402— Deep Learning

Instructional hours /week : 5
Total instructional hours : 90
Credits : 4
Module 1: Introduction to Learning
Limits of Traditional Computing – Machine Learning & Neural Networks – Neuron – FF
Neural Networks – Types of Neurons – Softmax output layers

Module 2: Deep Learning Models

Tensor flow – Variables – Operations – Placeholders – Sessions – Sharing Variables – Graphs
– Visualization
Module 3: Convolutional Neural Network
CNN Introduction – Feature Selection – Max Pooling – Filters and Feature Maps –Convolution
Layer –Applications
Module 4: Recurrent Neural Network
RNN Introduction – Memory cells – sequence analysis – word2vec- LSTM — Memory
augmented Neural Networks – NTM—Application

Module 5: Reinforcement Learning

Reinforcement Learning – MDP – Q Learning – Applications
Reference Text
1. Nikhil Buduma, Nicholas Locascio, ―Fundamentals of Deep Learning: Designing
NextGeneration Machine Intelligence Algorithms‖, O'ReillyMedia, 2017.
2. Ian Goodfellow, YoshuaBengio, Aaron Courville, ‖Deep Learning (Adaptive computation
and Machine Learning series‖, MITPress, 2017.
3. Building Machine Learning Systems with Python, Richert & Coelho

CA030402 Project

Instructional hours /week : 10

Total instructional hours : 180
Credits : 5

Project aims at giving students hands-on experience in applying the programming knowledge
in any language they have studied during this course to develop a real application / model for
data analytics. Students must take up individual projects. Evaluation of the project is external.

CA030403 Comprehensive Viva - Voce

Credits : 2

Course viva is conducted to find the skills the student has achieved by taking this programme.