APPLIED

DATA SCIENCE
PROGRAM
LEARN HOW TO BECOME A DATA-DRIVEN DECISION
MAKER WITH THE 12-WEEK LIVE VIRTUAL PROGRAM
DELIVERED BY MIT FACULTY

Now Featuring ChatGPT and Generative AI Modules

USING A "LOW CODE" APPROACH

ABOUT MIT
PROFESSIONAL
EDUCATION
A leader in engineering and technology
education for 70 years, MIT Professional
Education provides world-class learning
opportunities for professionals who are
looking to advance their careers, creatively
address complex problems, and build a
better future.

Our blend of traditional classroom

instruction with leading online technology
enables better learning outcomes, while
promoting engagement and collaboration.

MISSION
MIT Professional Education provides a
gateway to renowned MIT research,
knowledge and expertise for working
professionals engaged in science and
technology worldwide, through advanced
education programs designed for them.

Central to MIT’s vision, MIT Professional

Education fulfills the mandate to connect
practitioner-oriented education with
industry, and to incorporate industry
feedback and knowledge into MIT
education and research.

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ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Data is getting created at a rapid pace. It is estimated that more than 2 quintillion bytes
of data have been created each day in the last two years. As organizations experience an
overflow of data, they are sparing no effort to extract meaningful insights to make
smarter business decisions. In order to help you unravel the true worth of data, MIT
Professional Education offers Applied Data Science Program, which aims to prepare
data-driven decision makers for the future.

In this program that lasts for 12 weeks, you will be able to upgrade your data analytics
skills by learning the theory and practical application of supervised and unsupervised
learning, time-series analysis, neural networks, recommendation engines, regression, and
computer vision, to name a few.

Upon successful fulfillment of requirements, you will receive a Certificate of Completion

from MIT Professional Education at the end of the program.
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PROGRAM BENEFITS
Learn from award-winning MIT faculty via live
virtual sessions from the convenience of
your home.

Fuel your career transition with 1-on-1 career

sessions, resume and LinkedIn review, and an
e-portfolio with 6 hands-on projects and a
3-week capstone project.

Receive a Certificate of Completion from MIT

Professional Education.

Benefit from live mentorship from industry

experts on the applications of concepts taught
by faculty.

Earn 3.0 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) on

successful completion of the program.

PROGRAM STRUCTURE
This is a 12-week program

2 weeks Foundational courses on Python and Statistical Science.

6 weeks Core curriculum including practical applications. Involves 58 hours

of live virtual sessions by MIT faculty and industry experts, with
hands-on practical applications and problem solving.

1 week Project submissions.

3 weeks Final, integrative capstone project.

Self-Paced 2 modules on ChatGPT and Generative AI.

Please note:
Recordings of the live virtual sessions will be available,
allowing you to review the sessions at your own convenience. 04
WHO IS THIS
PROGRAM FOR?

Professionals who are interested

in a career in Data Science and
Machine Learning.

Professionals interested in leading

Data Science and Machine Learning
initiatives at their companies.

Entrepreneurs interested in
innovation using Data Science
and Machine Learning.

AFTER THIS COURSE

YOU WILL BE ABLE TO

Understand the intricacies of Understand the theory behind

Data Science techniques and recommendation systems and explore
their applications to real-world their applications to multiple
problems. industries and business contexts.

Learn how various Machine Learning Explore the realms of Machine Learning,
techniques can be used to solve Deep Learning, and Neural Networks,
complex problems and make and how they can be applied to areas
data-driven business decisions. such as Computer Vision and
Graph Representation Learning.

Develop a strong understanding Build an industry-ready portfolio of

of how Python is used to apply projects to demonstrate your ability
Data Science. to extract business insights from data.

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PRO GRA M C URRIC UL U M
The program is 12 weeks long:
2 weeks for foundations
6 weeks of core curriculum, including practical applications
1 week for project submissions
3 weeks for a final, integrative capstone project
2 self-paced modules on ChatGPT and Generative AI

Module 1 Week 1 & 2

Foundations for Data Science
Python Foundations - Libraries: Pandas, NumPy, Arrays and Matrix handling,
Visualization, Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)
Statistics Foundations: Basic/Descriptive Statistics, Distributions (Binomial,
Poisson, etc.), Bayes, Inferential Statistics

Module 2 Week 3
Data Analysis & Visualization
Exploratory Data Analysis, Visualization (PCA, MDS and t-SNE) for visualization
and batch correction
Introduction to Unsupervised Learning: Clustering includes - Hierarchical, K-Means,
DBSCAN, Gaussian Mixture
Networks: Examples (data as network versus network to represent dependence
among variables), determine important nodes and edges in a network,
clustering in a network

Module 3 Week 4
Machine Learning
Introduction to Model Evaluation- Introduction to
Supervised Learning Cross Validation and Supervised Learning-
-Regression Bootstrapping Classification

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Learning Break Week 5

Module 4 Week 6

Practical Data Science

Decision Trees Random Forest Time Series (Introduction)

Module 5 Week 7
Deep Learning
Intro to Convolutional Graph
Neural Networks Neural Networks Neural Networks

Module 6 Week 8
Recommendation Systems
Intro to Recommendation Systems
Matrix
Tensor, NN for Recommendation Systems

Learning Break Week 9

Time for participants to finish and submit their projects

Module 7 Week 10-12

Capstone Project
Week 10: Week 11: Week 12:
Milestone 1 Milestone 2 Synthesis + Presentation

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Self-Paced Modules with an Optional Masterclass

Demystifying ChatGPT ChatGPT:

and it's Applications The Development Stack
Overview of ChatGPT and OpenAI Mathematical Fundamentals for Generative AI
Implications for Work, Business and Education Transformer Models: Generative AI for Natural Language
Prompt Engineering for Fine-Tuning Outputs Hands-On ChatGPT Prototype Creation

Great Learning Hackathon (Optional) Week 13-14

Hackathons allow you to collaborate with a variety of working professionals and
learn from each other’s achievements and failures. During the 3-day hackathon,
you will be working as a team to code a data science-backed solution to a problem
statement with an aim to maximize its on a certain evaluation metric
Benefits:
Get the chance to work as a part of a team
Gain access to a live leaderboard to view your ranking
Display your problem-solving capabilities
Earn a certificate of achievement from Great Learning

Sample Hands-on Projects

Healthcare Real Estate

Diabetes Analysis AI-Powered Boston House Price Prediction
Analyzing different aspects of Diabetes in the Predicting house prices in the Boston metropolitan
Pima Indian tribe area based on features of the property and its
locality using Regression techniques
Concepts Used:
Exploratory Data Analysis, Data Visualization, Concepts Used:
and Statistics Linear Regression, Logistic Regression,
and K-Nearest Neighbors

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Marketing Retail
Predicting Potential Customers Amazon AI Product
Identifying leads who are more likely to convert Recommendation System
to paid customers based on their attributes and Recommending the best Amazon products
interaction details available to users based on past rating data
using AI-driven recommendation techniques
Concepts Used:
Decision Trees and Random Forests Concepts Used:
Rank-Based, Similarity-Based, Matrix
Factorization-Based, and Content-Based
Recommendation Systems

Examples of Capstone Projects

BFSI Research
Loan Default Prediction Facial Emotion Detection
Build a classification model to predict clients who Use Deep Learning and AI techniques to create a
are likely to default on their loans. Give Computer Vision model that can accurately
recommendations to the bank on important detect facial emotions. The model should be able
features to consider while approving a loan. to perform multi-class classification on images of
facial expressions and categorize them according
to the associated emotion.
Concepts Used:
Logistic Regression, Decision Trees, Random
Forests, and Ensemble Methods Concepts Used:
Artificial Neural Networks, Convolution Neural
Networks, Computer Vision, Transfer Learning,
and CNN Regularization

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PROGRAM FACULTY

Devavrat Shah
Director, Statistics and Data Science Center (SDSC) at MIT
Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS)
at MIT, PhD (Stanford University)

Munther Dahleh
Director, MIT Institute for Data, Systems and Society (IDSS)
William A. Coolidge Professor, Electrical Engineering &
Computer Science (EECS) at MIT, PhD (Rice University)

Caroline Uhler
Henry L. & Grace Doherty Associate Professor, Institute for Data,
Systems and Society (IDSS) and Dept. of Electrical Engineering
& Computer Science (EECS) at MIT, PhD (UC Berkeley)

John N. Tsitsiklis
Clarence J Lebel Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer
Science (EECS) at MIT, Professor, Laboratory for Information and Decision
Systems (LIDS) at MIT, PhD (MIT)

Stefanie Jegelka
X-Consortium Career Development Associate Professor, Electrical
Engineering & Computer Science (EFCS) at MIT, Member, Computer
Science & Artificial Intelligence Labo

Program faculty are subject to change.

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PR O GRAM MENTO R S
The program coaches you to work on hands-on industry relevant projects by Data
Science and Machine Learning experts via live and personalized mentored learning
sessions to give you a practical understanding of core concepts.

Bradford Tuckfield Animesh Gupta

Founder and Data Science Data Scientist,
Consultant, Kmbara WestJet

Selcuk Baran Omar Attia

Research Science Manager, Senior Machine Learning
Amazon Web Services Engineer, Apple

Matt Nickens Fahad Akbar

Manager, Partnership Science, Co-Founder & Core Contributor,
Meta PyCaret

Udit Mehrotra Shannon Schlueter

Senior Data Scientist, Co-Founder, CTO and Data Scientist,
Dell Technologies Calido

Tara Ann Thomas Lee Tanenbaum

Senior Analyst Data Scientist, Global Director of Data Science and Analytics,
Johnson & Johnson Vision Anheuser-Busch InBev

Kalle Bylin Vaibhav Verdhan

Data Engineer - Business Planning, Analytics Leader, Global Advanced Analytics,
IKEA AstraZeneca

Mustafa Shaikh Andrew Marlatt

Senior Data Scientist, Data Scientist - Revenue Expansion,
Walmart Canada Shopify

Marco De Virgilis Nikhar Shah

Senior Actuarial Data Scientist, Senior Data Scientist,
Allstate Nestlé

Rohit Dixit Nitin Ranjan Sharma

Senior Data Scientist, Data Scientist,
Siemens Healthineers Novartis

PROGRAM MANAGER
YOUR PERSONAL GUIDE
Your Program Manager will assist you through the journey to ensure you achieve
your learning objectives. They will act as your sole point of contact during the
program, supporting you and ensuring that you receive appropriate and timely
assistance from the ecosystem. Along with monitoring your progress, they will be
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L EARN ER TESTI MO NI AL S
Here’s what some of our learners have to say about their program experience:

“The platform used to deliver the program was highly organized. World-class professors
taught the program and the mentors’ level of engagement was astonishing. I have never
had the same experience with other platforms. Thank you for your hard work and
great support!”

KHASHAYAR EBRAHIMI, Ph.D

Senior Engineer, Solver and Developer
Gamma Technologies, LLC (US)

without diminishing the experience of hands-on learning. My program manager was

incredibly responsive, empathetic and professional. I enjoyed this program very much and
would recommend it to anyone interested in learning these skills.”

TANYA JOHNSON
Customer Engineering Manager
Google (US)

“The program was a wonderful hands-on learning experience. The lecturers and mentors
are top-notch, and the pace was intense but very engaging! The learning format and
applications of concepts allow you to apply them across case studies and projects. The
program support team was extremely helpful and requests were resolved quickly”.

BASIL BALUTA
CEO and CTO
Plexina Inc. (Canada)

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L EARN ER TESTI MO NI AL S
Here’s what some of our learners have to say about their program experience:

"The content and delivery by MIT professors was consistently high-quality and engaging.
The program faculty and mentors were knowledgeable and the staff was collaborative,
helpful, and enthusiastic throughout the journey. Thank you so much for this whole
experience!"

SABINA SUJECKA
AI Interaction and Product Designer
Orange Labs R&D (USA)

“I want to thank the mentors, MIT professors, teaching assistants, and everyone who made
the Applied Data Science Program run smoothly. I really learned a lot from the program
and I feel much more confident in exploring data and machine learning. The mentors
did an excellent job providing context for topics and going through examples.”

MATTHEW WOLF
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Guelph (Canada)

“I believe this program is one of the best Data Science programs out there. It is aptly

opportunity to attend live lectures and learn from some of the best faculty members in
the world.”

ABHISHEK M.
Principal Data Scientist
Nielsen (US)

"The program structure is laid out perfectly with working professionals in mind. The delivery
mechanism is tuned to 21st century education. MIT professors provide great context and
breadth about the topics covered. The weekend sessions with Great Learning mentors
provide real, applicable industry skills that are directly translatable to the workforce."

ARMAN SEUYLEMEZIAN
Research Scientist
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (USA)

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C ERTI FIC A T E OF C O MP L ETI O N

Program

The image is for illustrative purposes only. The actual certificate may be subject to change at the discretion of MIT Professional Education.

APPL IC A TION PR O C ESS

STEP-1 STEP-2 STEP-3

Application Form Application Screening Join the Program

Register by completing Your application will be If selected, you will receive
the online application reviewed to determine
form. if it is a fit with the cohort. Secure your seat by
program. paying the fee.

AP PLIC ATIO N & F E E D ET AI L S

Program Duration: 12
Fees: USD 3900 | Start Date: May 20, 2023
Prerequisites: Exposure to Computer Programming and a
High School-level knowledge of Statistics and Mathematics

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MIT Professional Education's Applied Data Science Program, with curriculum
developed and taught by MIT faculty, is delivered in collaboration with Great
Learning.

Great Learning, a part of the BYJU'S group, is a leading global ed-tech

ehensive,
industry-relevant programs across various cutting-edge Technology, Data, and
Business domains. Great Learning's programs are developed in collaboration
with the world's foremost academic institutions such as Stanford Executive
Education, MIT Professional Education, Wharton Online, The University of
Texas at Austin, Northwestern School of Professional Studies, National
University of Singapore, Deakin University, IIT Madras, IIT Bombay, IIT Roorkee,
IIIT-Delhi, Great Lakes Institute of Management, and more. They are constantly
reimagined and revamped to address the dynamic needs of the industry. Great
Learning is the only ed-tech company to provide these programs in a blended
mode, classroom mode, and purely online mode, relying on its vast network of
expert mentors and highly qualified faculty to deliver an unmatched learning
experience for learners in India and the world over. Great Learning is on a
mission to enable transformative learning and career success in the digital
economy for professionals and students across the globe and till date, we have
impacted over 7.1 million learners from over 170 countries.

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READY TO BECOME
A DATA-DRIVEN
DECISION MAKER?
APPLY NOW

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