Post Graduate Diploma in

Data Science (E-learning)

Table of
Contents
- About upGrad Institute

- Programme Highlights

- Industry Experts & Faculties

- upGrad Learning Experience

- Industry Projects

- Learning Path

- Programme Curriculum

- Career Support

- Who is this programme for?

- What are some of the Job Opportunities after Graduation?

- Programme Details
About
upGrad Institute
upGrad Institute (UI) located in UI is a subsidiary of upGrad - Asia’s
Singapore, is a premier Private largest integrated learning, skilling and
Education Institution (PEI), built to career development company that has
accelerate the global delivery and touched over 7 million total registered
adoption of world-class career skilling learners across 100+ countries, to date.
programs powered by innovation. UI It further boasts an alumni base of 400
programs are developed with a strong in Singapore alone, while also enjoying a
outcome-focus that will empower strong network of 300 direct global
learners with industry-ready formal university partners, 20,000+ recruitment
education and skills. UI will offer a range partners, and an enterprise arm with a
of Post Graduate Diplomas, Masters and clientele of 3000 corporate partners
Doctorate programs in partnership with worldwide.
top global universities along with skill-
based Bootcamps.

“The opportunity to provide job

ready education delivered flexibly
and affordably through upGrad
Institute’s proprietary content
and accomplished faculty is exciting,
and I am pleased to support this
endeavour”.
Prof. Arnoud De Meyer
Chair of the Academic Board for upGrad Institute

PEI Registration No: 201005229W Registration Period: 30/11/2020 to 29/11/2024

Programme
Highlights
Alumni Status
Dedicated Career Assistance Get certified by upGrad Institute a
Receive unmatched career assis- Post Graduate Diploma in Data Science
tance,that includes 360-degree support, and gain alumni status on successful
interview preparation and profile builder completion of the program. With this
to excel in your career and achieve your accomplishment, you will be equipped
professional goals. with the knowledge and skills to stand
out in the job market and elevate your
career to new heights.

Live Classroom Session 5 Specialisations

Access 90+ Hours of Live sessions Choose from 5 specialisations in Natural
with top-notch faculties members Language Processing, Deep Learning,
and industry experts, where you will Business Intelligence, Data Analytics,
receive hands-on learning experiences and Data Engineering, based on your
that will prepare you for real-world background and career aspirations.
challenges. Tailor your experience to excel in the
field of your choice.

For the Industry, by the Industry

Learn from 25+ case studies and industry experts who will mentor
you throughout the program. Gain valuable insights from the
best in the field and make your mark in the industry.
 Programme Developed with
Global Experts

Marcello Trovati Matthew Kolakowski Filipa Peleja

Professor in Data Science Senior Quantitative Machine Learning & Data
@Edge Hill University Analytics Specialist Science Team Lead
@Wells Fargo @CoachHub

Ujjyaini Mitra S Anand Mirza Rahim Baig

Founder & CEO CEO Analytics Head
@TheDeltacube.a @Gramener @Zalando
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Snehansu S Sahu Ankit Jain Sajan Kedia

Applied Scientist - II ML Engineering Manager Sr Engineering Manager
@ Amazon @Meta @Disney+Hotstar
upGrad Learning
Experience
Live Discussion Forum for Peer-to-Peer Doubt 25+ Industry-Drive Case Studies
Resolution Monitored by Technical Experts

More than 200+ hours of learning Access to the programme 24/7

25+ case studies to choose from

as well as a Capstone Project to
apply learnings.
Hands-On Projects and
Case Studies

Mentorship Format
90+ Hours of Live interactive Online format with professionally curated
sessions with industry experts, live sessions from industry experts to
personalised group mentorship help with topic walk-throughs, doubt resolution
sessions. and personalised project feedback.
Industry
Projects
Credit EDA Assignment
In this assignment, you will work for a consumer finance company which
specialises in lending various types of loans to urban customers and use
EDA to analyse the patterns present in the data. This will ensure that the
applicants are capable of repaying the loan and are not rejected.

RSVP Case Study Bike Sharing Assignment

In this assignment, you will work Build a regression model to
on a movies dataset using SQL to understand the factors on which
extract exciting insights about the demand for bike sharing
popular films and the factors that systems vary on and help a
drive a film. company optimise its revenue.

Lead Scoring Case Study

In this case study, the company requires you to build a machine learning
classifi-cation model wherein using some demographics and behavioural data
of the leads (potential buyers), it will be able to identify the ones most likely to
convert.

Big Data Case Study SQL & Python Lab

Understand how a big data Solve intensive programming
project in the industry is taken up questions in a competitive lab
and solved through a compre- environment to showcase and
hensive big datacase study on evaluate your SQL and Python
cloud. coding skills.

Model Selection Case Study -Telecom Churn

Telecom companies often face the problem of churning customers due to the
competitive nature of the industry. Help a telecom company identify
customers that are likely to churn and make data-driven strategies to retain
them from the perspective of a business analyst.
 Airbnb Case Study
Understand the factors that drive the Airbnb business and help the team leads
tackle problems and bottlenecks through extensive data analysis on UI tools.

Business Case Study

In this case study, you'll learn about the process of undertaking a data
project in the industry and how to effectively manage and complete it. By
understanding the necessary steps involved in the data project lifecycle,
you'll be equipped with the knowledge and skills to ensure the success
of your own data projects in the future.

NN Assignment
In this assignment, you will build a complete neural network using Numpy. You will
implement all the steps required to build a network - feedforward, loss computation,
backpropagation, weight updates etc. You will use the MNIST dataset to train your
model to classify handwritten digits between 0-9.

Gesture Recognition Case Study

Imagine you are working as a data scientist at a home electronics company
which manufactures state of the art smart televisions. You want to develop a cool
feature in the smart-TV that can recognise five different gestures performed by
the user which will help users control the TV without using a remote.

Advanced ML Case Study - Telecom Churn

Telecom companies often face the problem of churning customers due to the
competitive nature of the industry. Help a telecom company identify customers
that are likely to churn and make data-driven strategies to retain them from the
perspective of a data scientist.

Syntactic Processing Assignment Automatic Ticket Classification

Case Study
Use the techniques such as POS
tagging and Dependency parsing In this case study you will create a
to extract information from unstruc- solution that will help in automating
tured text data. the classification of different
complaint tickets raised by the
customers of a multinational bank.
 MapReduce Programming Assignment
Perform MapReduce Programming in a big data environment on a large
dataset.

ETL Project Retail Project

Make use of Sqoop, Redshift & Build an end-to-end real-time data
Spark to design an ETL data processing application using
pipeline. Spark Streaming and Kafka.
 Learning
Path

Preparatory Course Data Toolkit Machine Learning - 1

2 weeks 11 weeks 9 weeks
Tools: Python, Excel Tools: Python, Excel, Tools: Python, Excel
mySQL

4 other modules
Advanced DBs and Big Data Analytics
Data Visualisation and Story Telling
Advanced Problem Solving and Programming
Capstone Project

Deep Learning Natural Language Business Analytics Business Intelligence/ Data Engineering
Tools: Python, Processing Tools: Python, Data Analytics Tools: Hadoop
Excel, TensorFlow Tools: Python, Excel mySQL, Excel Tools: Python, Power HBase,Sqoop,
BI, Excel, mySQL, Mon- Hive, Flume,
goDB, Shiny, Tableau PySpark, Spark,
Airflow

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Program
Curriculum
Core Modules

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Data Toolkit

Machine Learning - 1

Capstone Project

Specialised Tracks
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Track 1 - Deep Learning

Track 2 - Natural Language Processing

Track 3 - Business Analytics

Track 4 - Business Intelligence/Data Analytics

Track 5 - Data Engineering

Assessment structure (per course)
Weight Distribution in the Course - Deep Learning/Data Analytics/Natural Language Processing/Business
Analytics/Data Engineering Track

Course
Course Projects (in %) MCQ (in %) Exam (in %)

Course 1 - Data Toolkit 35 45 20

Course 2 - Machine Learning 1 35 45 20

Course 3 (All Track) 30 45 25

Course 4 (AIl Track) 30 45 25

Course 5 (All Track) 30 45 25

Career
Support

Personalised Industry Session

Sessions by an industry expert for a small
group of 10-12 learners with similar profiles to
discuss real life applications of concepts and
personalised coaching.

High Performance Coaching (1:1)

Get a dedicated career coach to help you stay on
track to achieve your career goals, coach you on
your profile, and support you in your career journey.

Career Mentorship Sessions (1:1)

Get personalised career landscaping from
experts to chart out best opportunities.

Career Webinars
Industry leaders to guide you on job opportunities,
career path in the field of Data. Support on
polishing your hard skills and soft skills for interview
preparation.
 Who is this
Programme for?

Domain Experts
Engineers and
Software
Fresh
Graduates

Marketing &
IT Professionals
Sales
Professionals
What are some of the
Job Opportunities after Graduation?

Data
Analyst

Decision Data
Scientist Scientist

Machine Data
Learning Engineer
Engineer

Product
Analyst
Top Subjects you will
learn

Predictive Machine
Analytics Learning
using Python

Big Data

Data Visualisation

Natural Language
Processing
 Program Details

Program Duration Format

12 months E-Learning

Program Fee Eligibility

Minimum Age: 21 Years Old
Please refer to
the website for program fee
Academic Level:

1) Bachelor’s Degree in any discipline or;

2) Mature candidates who are at least 30 years old

and above with 8 years of relevant working
experience with a Diploma and;

3) Applicants must also obtain 6 out of 11 for the

Admission Aptitude Test or GMAT (Score of 650 and
above) or GRE (Score of 300 and above)

English Language Proficiency: Bachelor Degree

where English is the mode of delivery or IELTS 6.0 or
equivalent

Weekly Commitment Live Session

15 Hours 90+ Hours
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