Who should attend this course: Anyone who wants to learn Python programming can do this course. There are no pre-requisites of this course.  We start this course from scratch such that even a beginner can understand this language and build codes.

We at CTC offer Advanced Python Certification Course in Delhi include quality education by most qualified and experienced python trainers.

No prior programming background required

No Technical degree required but effort to learn may vary from individual to individual. Training is provided by Industry experts with working experience in Python and Data Science with Machine learning.

Apart from the concepts listed below there will be industry projects in this course to have practical exposure the application. So consider this as just outline structure and eventually there will be more topics covered as per industry demands and application than listed here.

• Python Language + Data analytics using Python
• No prior coding background required.
• Covers the basics of python programming
• Takes you through industry based applications of python programming in Machine learning and data science.
• 5 – 7 Industry projects included as part of application based training.

Introduction and Overview to Python

Environment Setup (Installation and setting up Python IDE – Anaconda- Spyder, Jupyter)

Introduction

• History
• Features
• Setting up path
• Working with Python
• Basic Syntax
• Variable and Data Types
• Operator

PYTHON: ESSENTIALS (CORE)

• Overview of Python- Starting with Python
• Introduction to installation of Python
• Introduction to Python Editors & IDE’s(Spyder,  Jupyter, etc…)
• Understand Spyder & Customize Settings
• Concept of Packages/Libraries – Important packages(NumPy, SciPy, scikit-learn, Pandas, Matplotlib, etc)
• Installing & loading Packages & Name Spaces
• Data Types & Data objects/structures (strings, Tuples, Lists, Dictionaries)
• List and Dictionary Comprehensions
• Variable & Value Labels –  Date & Time Values
• Basic Operations – Mathematical – string – date
• Reading and writing data
• Simple plotting
• Control flow & conditional statements
• Debugging & Code profiling
• How to create class and modules and how to call them?

DATA EXPLORATION FOR MODELING

• Need for structured exploratory data
• EDA framework for exploring the data and identifying any problems with the data (Data Audit Report)
• Identify missing data
• Identify outliers data
• Visualize the data trends and patterns

ACCESSING/IMPORTING AND EXPORTING DATA USING PYTHON MODULES

• Importing Data from various sources (Csv, txt, excel, access etc)
• Database Input (Connecting to database)
• Viewing Data objects – subsetting, methods
• Exporting Data to various formats
• Important python modules: Pandas, beautifulsoup

DATA MANIPULATION – CLEANSING – MUNGING USING PYTHON MODULES

• Cleansing Data with Python
• Data Manipulation steps(Sorting, filtering, duplicates, merging, appending, subsetting, derived variables, sampling, Data type conversions, renaming, formatting etc)
• Data manipulation tools(Operators, Functions, Packages, control structures, Loops, arrays etc)
• Python Built-in Functions (Text, numeric, date, utility functions)
• Python User Defined Functions
• Stripping out extraneous information
• Normalizing data
• Formatting data
• Important Python modules for data manipulation (Pandas, Numpy, re, math, string, datetime etc)

DATA ANALYSIS – VISUALIZATION USING PYTHON

• Introduction exploratory data analysis
• Descriptive statistics, Frequency Tables and summarization
• Univariate Analysis (Distribution of data & Graphical Analysis)
• Bivariate Analysis(Cross Tabs, Distributions & Relationships, Graphical Analysis)
• Creating Graphs- Bar/pie/line chart/histogram/ boxplot/ scatter/ density etc)
• Important Packages for Exploratory Analysis (NumPy Arrays, Matplotlib, Pandas and scipy.stats etc)

INTRODUCTION TO PREDICTIVE MODELING

• Concept of model in analytics and how it is used?
• Common terminology used in analytics & modelling process

INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS

• Basic Statistics – Measures of Central Tendencies and Variance
• Building blocks – Probability Distributions – Normal distribution – Central Limit Theorem
• Inferential Statistics -Sampling – Concept of Hypothesis Testing
• Statistical Methods – Z/t-tests( One sample, independent, paired), Anova, Correlations and Chi-square
• Important modules for statistical methods: Numpy, Scipy, Pandas

SEGMENTATION: SOLVING SEGMENTATION PROBLEMS

• Introduction to Segmentation
• Types of Segmentation (Subjective Vs Objective, Heuristic Vs. Statistical)
• Heuristic Segmentation Techniques (Value Based, RFM Segmentation and Life Stage Segmentation)
• Behavioural Segmentation Techniques (K-Means Cluster Analysis)
• Cluster evaluation and profiling – Identify cluster characteristics
• Interpretation of results – Implementation on new data

DATA PREPARATION

• Need of Data preparation
• Consolidation/Aggregation – Outlier treatment – Flat Liners – Missing values- Dummy creation – Variable Reduction
• Variable Reduction Techniques – Factor & PCA Analysis

MACHINE LEARNING -PREDICTIVE MODELING – BASICS

• Introduction to Machine Learning & Predictive Modelling
• Types of Business problems – Mapping of Techniques – Regression vs. classification vs. segmentation vs. Forecasting
• Major Classes of Learning Algorithms -Supervised vs Unsupervised Learning
• Different Phases of Predictive Modelling (Data Pre-processing, Sampling, Model Building, Validation)
• Overfitting (Bias-Variance Trade off) & Performance Metrics
• Feature engineering & dimension reduction
• Concept of optimization & cost function
• Overview of gradient descent algorithm
• Overview of Cross validation(Bootstrapping, K-Fold validation etc)

Model performance metrics (R-square, Adjusted R-squre, RMSE, MAPE, AUC, ROC curve, recall,

UNSUPERVISED LEARNING: SEGMENTATION

• What is segmentation & Role of ML in Segmentation?
• Concept of Distance and related math background
• K-Means Clustering
• Hierarchical Clustering
• Principle component Analysis (PCA)

LINEAR REGRESSION: SOLVING REGRESSION PROBLEMS

• Introduction – Applications
• Assumptions of Linear Regression
• Building Linear Regression Model
• Understanding standard metrics (Variable significance, R-square/Adjusted R-square, Global hypothesis ,etc)
• Assess the overall effectiveness of the model
• Validation of Models (Re running Vs. Scoring)
• Standard Business Outputs (Decile Analysis, Error distribution (histogram), Model equation, drivers etc.)
• Interpretation of Results – Business Validation – Implementation on new data

TIME SERIES FORECASTING: SOLVING FORECASTING PROBLEMS

• Introduction – Applications
• Time Series Components( Trend, Seasonality, Cyclicity and Level) and Decomposition
• Classification of Techniques(Pattern based – Pattern less)
• Basic Techniques – Averages, Smoothening, etc
• Advanced Techniques – AR Models, ARIMA, etc
• Understanding Forecasting Accuracy – MAPE, MAD, MSE, etc

LOGISTIC REGRESSION: SOLVING CLASSIFICATION PROBLEMS

• Introduction – Applications
• Linear Regression Vs. Logistic Regression Vs. Generalized Linear Models
• Building Logistic Regression Model (Binary Logistic Model)
• Understanding standard model metrics (Concordance, Variable significance, Hosmer Lemeshov Test, Gini, KS, Misclassification, ROC Curve etc)
• Validation of Logistic Regression Models (Re running Vs. Scoring)
• Standard Business Outputs (Decile Analysis, ROC Curve, Probability Cut-offs, Lift charts, Model equation, Drivers or variable importance, etc)
• Interpretation of Results – Business Validation – Implementation on new data

TIME SERIES FORECASTING: SOLVING FORECASTING PROBLEMS

• Introduction – Applications
• Time Series Components( Trend, Seasonality, Cyclicity and Level) and Decomposition
• Classification of Techniques(Pattern based – Pattern less)
• Basic Techniques – Averages, Smoothening, etc
• Advanced Techniques – AR Models, ARIMA, etc
• Understanding Forecasting Accuracy – MAPE, MAD, MSE, etc

SUPERVISED LEARNING: DECISION TREES

• Decision Trees – Introduction – Applications
• Types of Decision Tree Algorithms
• Construction of Decision Trees through Simplified Examples; Choosing the “Best” attribute at each Non-Leaf node; Entropy; Information Gain, Gini Index, Chi Square, Regression Trees
• Generalizing Decision Trees; Information Content and Gain Ratio; Dealing with Numerical Variables; other Measures of Randomness
• Pruning a Decision Tree; Cost as a consideration; Unwrapping Trees as Rules
• Decision Trees – Validation
• Overfitting – Best Practices to avoid

SUPERVISED LEARNING: KNN

• What is KNN & Applications?
• KNN for missing treatment
• KNN For solving regression problems
• KNN for solving classification problems
• Validating KNN model
• Model fine tuning with hyper parameters

SUPERVISED LEARNING: ENSEMBLE LEARNING

• Concept of Ensembling
• Manual Ensembling Vs. Automated Ensembling
• Methods of Ensembling (Stacking, Mixture of Experts)
• Random forest (Logic, Practical Applications)
• Boosting (Logic, Practical Applications)

SUPERVISED LEARNING: SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES

• Motivation for Support Vector Machine & Applications
• Support Vector Regression
• Support vector classifier (Linear & Non-Linear)
• Mathematical Intuition (Kernel Methods Revisited, Quadratic Optimization and Soft Constraints)
• Interpretation of Outputs and Fine tune the models with hyper parameters
• Validating SVM models

SUPERVISED LEARNING: ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS (ANN)

• Motivation for Neural Networks and Its Applications
• Perceptron and Single Layer Neural Network, and Hand Calculations
• Learning In a Multi Layered Neural Net: Back Propagation and Conjugant Gradient Techniques
• Neural Networks for Regression
• Neural Networks for Classification
• Interpretation of Outputs and Fine tune the models with hyper parameters
• Validating ANN models

SUPERVISED LEARNING: NAÏVE BAYES

• Concept of Conditional Probability
• Bayes Theorem and Its Applications
• Naïve Bayes for classification
• Applications of Naïve Bayes in Classifications

TEXT MINING & ANALYTICS

• Taming big text, Unstructured vs. Semi-structured Data; Fundamentals of information retrieval, Properties of words; Creating Term-Document ( TxD); Matrices; Similarity measures, Low-level processes (Sentence Splitting; Tokenization; Part-of-Speech Tagging; Stemming; Chunking)
• Finding patterns in text: text mining, text as a graph
• Assignment and PROJECT – Implementing the concepts on Real Time projects
• Applying different algorithms to solve the business problems and understand the industry applications.