Program Delivery Schedule

DSBA - Data Science and

Business Analytics
7th June 2020
Orientation
Session
Mentored Learning
Content Session
Release Assessme
Week Date
M# Module Course Weekend nt
#
Deadline
Data
1 Science for Introduction to Python 1 05-Jun 13th or 14th June 14- Jun
Python

Python for Data Science- Numpy and

2 12-Jun 20th or 21st June 21-Jun
Pandas

Python for Visualization 3 19-Jun 27th or 28th June 28-Jun

4th July (Doubt Clearing

Project 1 4 26-Jun 5- Jul
Session)

Statistical 1. Measures of Central Tendency &

Methods Variation Correlation
2 for 5 3-Jul 11th or 12th July 12- Jul
Decision
2. Presentation of Data
Making

1. Probability Concepts
6 10-Jul 18th or 19th July 19- Jul
2. Probability Distributions

1. Estimation
7 17-Jul 25th or 26th July 26 Jul
2. Hypothesis Testing

2nd Aug (Doubt Clearing

Project 2 8&9 24- Jul 09- Aug
Session)

Advanced
3 ANOVA 10 7- Aug 15th or 16th Aug 16-Aug
Statistics

Exploratory Data Analysis 11 14-Aug 22nd or 23rd Aug 23-Aug

th th
Principal Component Analysis 12 23-Aug 29 or 30 Aug 30-Aug

13th Sept (Doubt

Project 3 13 & 14 28-Aug 13-Sept
Clearing Session)

Data
4 Clustering 15 11-Sept 19th or 20th Sept 20-Sept
Mining

CART 16 18-Sept 26th or 27th Sept 27-Sept

rd th
Random Forest 17 25-Sept 3 or 4 Oct 04-Oct

Artificial Neural Networks 18 2-Oct 10th or 11th Oct 11-Oct

18th Oct (End to End

Project 4 19 & 20 9- Oct 25-Oct
Case study)

Predictive
5 Modelling using Linear Regression 21 23-Oct 31st Oct or 1st Nov 01-Nov
Modelling
 Modelling using Logistic Regression 22 30th Oct 7th or 8th Nov 08-Nov

Linear Discriminant Analysis 23 06-Nov 21st or 22nd Nov 22-Nov

Diwali Holiday (14th- 15th Nov weekend!)

29th Nov (End to End

Project 5 24 & 25 20-Nov 6-Dec
Case study)

Machine
6 Supervised Learning - Classification 26 4-Dec 12th or 13th Dec 13-Dec
Learning

Ensemble Techniques 27 11 Dec 19th or 20th Dec 20-Dec

Text Analytics 28 18-Dec 2nd or 3rd Jan 3-Jan

Christmas Holiday (25th-26th- 27th Dec

weekend!)

10th Jan (End to End

Project 6 29 & 30 1-Jan 17-Jan
Case study)

Time Series
7 Forecastin Intro & Visualization / Data Preparation 31 15-Jan 23rd or 24th Jan 24-Jan
g

Forecasting 32 22-Jan 30th or 31st Jan 31-Jan

Autoregression 33 29-Jan 6th or 7th Feb 7-Feb

14th Feb (End to End

Project 9 34 & 35 5-Feb 21-Feb
case study)

Hackathon! 36 27th & 28th Feb 2021

Data
26-Feb (Entire
Visualizatio
8 Insights from Data / Calculate fields 37 Content with 6th or 7th March NA
n Using
Project)
Tableau

Dashboards / Storyboards 38 NA 13th or 14th March NA

Project 7 39 NA NA 21-Mar

19-Mar (Entire
9 SQL TBA 40 Content with 27th or 28th March 28- Mar
Project)

TBA 41 NA 3rd or 4th Apr 4-Apr

Project 8 42 NA NA 11-Apr
 NOTES >>
1. This schedule might change in future as and when the design of the program is improved upon.
2. Assessment here could mean either a quiz or a project.

Capstone Orientation (11th Apr 2021)

Domain Assessme
Week Virtual Live
Applica Course Activity nt
# Sessions
tion Deadline
9-Apr (Entire
Financial and Content with
10 Risk (Live Virtual Class) 43 Project + Publish 17th or 18th Apr
Analytics Capstone Project
course)

(Live Virtual Class) 44 24th or 25th Apr

Assessment Week 45 2nd May

Marketing
11 and Retail (Live Virtual Class) 46 30th Apr 8th or 9th May
Analytics

(Live Virtual Class) 47 15th or 16th May

Assessment Week 48 23rd May

Before
Capstone
12 Capstone Project Publish Domain NA NA NA
Project
Modules

First Student Mentor Connect- Capstone 49 30th May

First Project Notes Submission 50 28th May 6th Jun

Second Student Mentor Connect-

51 13th June
Capstone

Second Project Notes Submission 52 11th Jun 20th Jun

Third Student Mentor Connect- Capstone 53 27th June

Capstone PPT Submission 25th Jun 2nd July (Fri)

54
Capstone Final Presentation (By student
3rd or 4th July
to the Expert)
 Capstone Final Report 55 11th Jul

NOTES >>
3. This schedule might change in future as and when the design of the program is improved upon.
4. Assessment here could mean either a quiz or a project.