REAL

DATA SCIENCE
SKILLS THAT
DELIVER
REAL OUTCOMES!
India’s #1 Outcome-focused, Immersive
Data Science & Machine Learning Program
Developed Based On Insights From
Top 50 Tech Companies
Index
01 Insights 03

02 Program Highlights 05

03 Program Overview 06

04 Curriculum Deep-dive 07

05 Meet Your Instructors 14

06 Advisory Commitee 15

07 Meet Your Mentors 16

Career Support &

08 Alumni Network
17

Fee Structure &

09 How To Apply
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Insights

We designed the Scaler Data Science curriculum based on insights from 100 Data Scientists
and ML Engineers from 50 top tech companies and startups. Our objective was to identify
challenges they face and address them in our course. Here’s what we learnt:

95%
struggled initially to understand
The Scaler Difference:

Scaler Data Science addresses this

with a Business & Strategy
business problems:
curriculum designed by experts
Data Science is a technical role, but Data from McKinsey and BCG.
Scientists are tasked with improving the
business. Data Science programs often It is integrated seamlessly into all
focus on the technical aspect, forgetting projects, providing hands-on
the importance of understanding the practice tackling DS & ML problems
business. in a business scenario.

80%
struggled initially to work with
The Scaler Difference:

At Scaler Data Science, you will work

real-world datasets: on projects built in partnership
with top companies.
Data scientists work with massive,
fragmented, messy, and incomplete You will work on real problem
data, while students practice on dummy statements and will get your hands
datasets which are small, clean, and dirty by working with messy and
organized, depriving learners the unclean realistic data.
opportunity to practice with real messy
datasets.

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50%
struggled to understand research
The Scaler Difference:

At Scaler Data Science, you will

learn how to read the latest
papers
Research Papers
Data Science, Machine Learning, and
Deep Learning are rapidly evolving Expert mentoring to help you
fields, with new research being publish new research in global
published constantly. Data Scientists peer-reviewed conferences.
who can absorb the latest research
insights are of great value for
organisations.

Work on projects built in partnership with top companies.

Work on real industry projects, get real-time feedback from mentors, and engage with your
peers to discuss different solutions during live classes. Here are a few of the sample projects:

Use data to design the Experiment with

best strategy for offering different driving routes
coupons and discounts. to minimise wait times

Predict when food Sniff out fraud by

arrives at customers' analyzing millions of
addresses. chat messages.

*Projects may be updated based on student and partner feedback.

Scaler Data Science program ensures you gain the knowledge & confidence to
overcome the toughest challenges a Data Scientist or ML Engineer can face in their
careers, from day one!
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Highlights of Scaler Data Science Program
A program that focuses on real outcomes - career-wise and skill-wise!

Structured, Industry-tested
Curriculum
1
Based on insights from 100 Data
Scientists from 50 top companies.
Prepares you to tackle the
toughest problems in DS and ML. Live Class with Industry
Experts as Instructors
2
Regular classes by Faculty
who have built scalable systems.

Work on Realistic Datasets

from Top Companies
3
Work on projects built in
partnership with top companies.
Get hands-on experience working
with messy and unclean data. Be at the forefront of
cutting-edge developments
4
Learn to Read Research Papers;
know relevant papers in DS, ML,
Deep Learning.
Master More Than 45 Get proper guidance to Publish
Critical Tech Tools Research Paper in Conference
5 Globally.
Including TensorFlow,PyTorch,
Kafka, PySpark, Airflow,
and AWS.
1:1 Mentorship from Data
Scientists and ML Engineers
6
Speak 1:1 with Data Scientists
and ML Engineers from
top companies.

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Program Overview
Curriculum That’s Crafted To Make You a Complete Data Scientist!

Course Outline

Sr. no. Topic Duration

1 DSA Intermediate 8 weeks

2 Python + Tools + Web 3 weeks

3 Data Mining & Statistical Analysis 7 weeks

4 Data Science & Machine Learning 9 weeks

5 Deep Learning & Big Data 7 weeks

6 DSA Advanced 15 weeks

Total Course Duration 11 to 13 Months

Entry Points for this course:

Based on a 30 Min MCQ Entrance coding Test, you will either enter as:

Intermediate Advance
1. DSA Intermediate (2 months) 1. Data Science & ML (7 months)
2. Data Science & ML (7 months) 2. DSA Advance (4 months)
3. DSA Advance (4 months)

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Curriculum Deep-dive

01 DSA Intermediate
Functions

Recursion
Pointers

Structures, Unions & Dynamic Arrays

Asymptotic Notations

Why DSA? Strong DSA skills help you in Problem Solving, using the most
effective way. Moreover, it is an essential skill for clearing interviews, even for
Data Science and ML roles.

02 Preparation

Setup & Utilities

Linux Terminal, Jupyter

Git Essentials

Structures, Unions & Dynamic Arrays

Python, OOP, Exception handling

Important Modules (time, random, os, openCV, etc.)
File I/O, Connect to DB, Large files

Scaler Advantage: Prior knowledge of Python is not required. Essential

tools like Git will be covered so that you don’t struggle on the job.

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03 Data Mining / Data Analysis

Databases and SQL

Basics - MySQL, SQL Queries, CRUD, ACID

Intermediate - Index, Partition, Query optimization, CTE, Concurrency, Sharding
NoSQL, MongoDB
DB Schema Design

Data Governance

Data Dictionary

Scaler Advantage: The Program also covers advanced topics such

as Data Governance and Data Dictionary which will help you stand out
in your career.

04 Maths & Statistical Analysis

Statistics & Probability

Statistical measures, Standard deviation, Probability, Bayes

Normal Distribution, Density, Binomial Experiment, CLT
Poisson, Markov
Sampling, Confidence, Hypothesis Testing
Anova, Chi-square

Linear Algebra

Linear algebra, Eigenvectors

Coordinate Geometry

Calculus

Derivatives, Optimization techniques

 Scaler Advantage: A strong foundation in Mathematics is a gift that keeps
on giving. We will cover these topics in a fun and engaging way.

05 Data Analysis in Python

Python

Numpy - Vector, Matrix, Array, Slicing, Coercion, Random, Distribution, Time

Pandas - Dataframe, Pivot, Merge, Missing values, Apply, Download
Matplotlib, Seaborn

Scaler Advantage: Numpy and Pandas are going to be your air and
water as a Data Scientist and ML Engineer. We will teach you how to use these
tools to solve difficult business problems.

06 Data Science & Machine Learning

EDA (Exploratory Data Analysis)

Random Sampling, Replacement, Simulation

Summarization, Central Tendency, Dispersion, Skewness, Kurtosis, Law of
large numbers
R-square, Multicollinearity, Parsimonious, Autocorrelation, Heteroscedasticity
Significance, Confusion Matrix, Sensitivity, Specificity, Odds Ratio
Outlier Detection, Normality Test (QQ, KS, SW), Correlation Analysis
Feature Engineering, Normalization, Standardization
Parametric and Non-Parametric Tests

Supervised Models

KNN
Linear Regression
 Logistic Regression
Ensemble: Bagging, Boosting, Decision Trees, Random Forest
Regularization, Overfit
SVM

Unsupervised Models

Clustering (KMeans, Hierarchy), Anomaly Detection

Predictive Modeling

Time Series - MLE, LSM, ARIMA (optional... MAM, JASA, ADF, Correlogram,
AIC, LSE)
Forecasting - Naive, Moving Avg, Growth, Random Walk, Drift forecast

Intermediate

PCA, Dimensionality Reduction, Factor analysis, t-SNE

Validation Analysis, Residual Analysis
Recommender system (Collaborative/Content filtering, Propensity analysis).
Cold start problem

Natural Language Processing

Text Analytics, Text Mining, Tf-Idf, POS Tagging, a bag of words, import
prereq
Naive Bayes, Spam Detection, Sentiment Analysis

Scaler Advantage: We will cover the latest models in Data Science and
Machine Learning. You will work on projects built in partnership with top
companies. You will get your hands dirty by working with messy and unclean
real-world data.

07 Deep Learning

Neural Networks, MLP, Backprop

Overhead

Keras
TensorFlow
PyTorch
Project discussions
Reading Research Papers

Computer Vision

CNN, Object Detection

Object Segmentation, Localization, YOLO, SSD
Autoencoders
GAN
Data Augmentation
Siamese Net
Architectures - VGG, GoogleNet, ResNet, DenseNet
Transfer Learning

Natural Language Processing

Similiarity, Sequential Models, Embeddings, Transformers, word2vec/GloVe

Time Series - LSTM, GRU
Attention Networks / BERT

Other

Reinforcement Learning, Q-Learning, Autonomous Players

ML System Design

Scaler Advantage: We will teach you how to read the latest Research
Papers and we will discuss the relevant papers in class. This is an important
skill to stay updated in the fast-changing field of ML and Deep Learning.

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08 Data Engineering / Data Infrastructure / MLOps
Big Data / Distributed System

Warehouse - S3, Hadoop HDFS, ElasticSearch/Solr, HBase, MongoDB, Redshift

Ingestion - Kafka, Nifi
Analysis - PySpark, Airflow, Hive
DevOps - Databricks, Snowflake, KubeFlow, MLFlow, KNIME
DevOps - Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible/Puppet, Kerberos, AWS, GCP, Azure
System Design - Data Pipeline

Scaler Advantage: Our program also covers advanced topics such

as Data Governance and Data Dictionary which will help you stand out
in your career.

09 Web and API

Basics

Web APIs, Downloading large files programmatically

Intermediate

Web Scraping & Crawler

Web Automation

Advanced

Flask
Cloud Server Deployment

Scaler Advantage: Being able to build a crawler to scrape websites

and deploying your web apps will help you ace your career as a Data
Scientist and ML Engineer.

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 10 Business Experience

Business Skills

Case studies, MoM, Growth, LTV, NPS, DAU, MAU, Profit, Revenue

Scaler Advantage: Data Scientists help with business decisions and

need to solve open-ended business problems. They need to know what data
to even ask for. As such, understanding the business is a critical skill. It will
help you in difficult business situations when you have to creatively build a
new strategy or diagnose issues in the existing operations of the company.

11 DSA Advanced

Time Complexity, Arrays, Strings, Binary Search, 2 Pointers, Recursion,

Hashing, Sorting, Bit manipulation

Stacks, Queues, Linked Lists, Trees, Tries, Heap

Greedy, DP, Graphs

The Scaler Data Science curriculum

covers all the essential topics and
tools you need to make real-world
impact as a Data Scientist!

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Meet Your Instructors
A comprehensive curriculum by itself doesn’t make you a complete data scientist - real skills
require real-world experience. Learn from Experts and Thought-leaders who have been
there, done that!

Mudit Goel
Ex - ,

At LinkedIn and Intuit, Mudit was granted patents by the US

Government. He led the Data Science team at D2L (ranked
among most innovative companies in Data Science). Mudit
founded Coding Elements, which was selected by the Govt. of
India to teach coding to 2 Million students. He currently leads
the Data Science and ML program at Scaler.

Anant Mittal
,

As a researcher at the University of Maryland, he worked

on cutting-edge systems to find biomarkers of task
activities in the brain. He designed and developed COVID19
& hygiene-related analytics solutions such as temperature
screening and violations related to preventive measures.

Anshuman Singh
Co-Founder , Ex -

He is the co-founder of Scaler Academy and two-time

ACM ICPC world finalist. He was one of the founding
team members of Facebook Messenger and worked
directly with Mark Zuckerberg on product development.

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 Pragy Agarwal
Ex -

Pragy received a Masters degree, specialising in

Machine Learning, from IIT Bombay. As a Platform
Engineer at Media.Net, he scaled Low Latency
Systems with millions of queries per second. He has
16+ years of experience and a keen eye for ‘industry
best practices’.

Kshitij Mishra
Ex -

As part of a two-member SDE team, he managed the entire

codebase of Snapdeal 'Seller Search' services (when
Snapdeal was doing 7M orders/month) and also helped
Snapdeal move from the highest available AWS model to
the lowest within 4 months.

Advisory Committee Ex-MediaNet

Pawan Kumar Ramit Sawhney

Head of Data Science,
Ex -

Pawan is an experienced Data Scientist with a A seasoned software engineer, Ramit is a

strong product sense and an innate ability to globally published and recognised researcher
communicate complex insights clearly. He at IIIT-Delhi, Georgia Institute of Technology,
has been leading and spearheading the Data the AI Institute at University of Southern
Science divisions at Uber and LinkedIn. Carolina, and Open Source Maintainer at
AnitaB.org
He has been empanelled as an advisor for
the Scaler Data Science Program He has been empanelled as the research
advisor for the Scaler Data Science Program
Mentors
Our mentors ensure you have the right guidance, every step of the way!
We offer 1:1 Mentorship sessions twice a month, wherein mentors will answer your queries,
doubts, help you with interview tips, and even mock interview sessions.

Sahil Chelaramani Girijesh Prasad

Data Scientist Senior Manager, Data Science,

He has worked on Bing Search and He has extensive experience in delivering

Azure Global Development teams. He end-to-end Data Science solutions - from
has experience in building large Deep infrastructure to models. He can also
Learning projects, and robust Data share his experience about management
Science systems. and business.

Rajeev Baditha Hitesh Hinduja

Data Scientist, Senior Manager, Artificial
Intelligence,

He has theoretical as well as hands-on He is passionate about cutting-edge

knowledge of Data Science, and has research. He also leads a team of 20 to
worked at Walmart and Fractal deliver the best electric vehicles, while
Analytics. He has a Master’s degree from leveraging end-to-end Machine
Indian Statistical Institute. Learning pipelines.

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Career Support & Alumni Network
We offer career support and guidance, to ensure the skills you have learned are
having a real-world impact!

Access job opportunities from Exchange job opportunities with

600+ partner employers 20k+ Scaler student

community

Practice mock interviews with Optimize your resume & LinkedIn

people from the industry profile by the experts

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Our alumni work at reputed technology companies
and promising startups

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Tuition Fee
Total Fee Rs 2.5L (inclusive of GST)

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options for you to avail as well!

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