Objective: Enable students to collect and manipulate real-world data.

Live Class 1: What is a CSV file | Reading CSV using csv.reader() | Reading rows as dictionary using csv.DictReader() | What is JSON | Reading JSON file using json.load() | Converting JSON string using json.loads() | File modes: r, w, a | Reading text file using open() | Writing text file using write() | Using with statement for safe file handling

Live Class 2: API Requests with requests module | Making GET and POST requests | Handling API response data | Basics of web scraping | Using requests and BeautifulSoup | Extracting data from HTML elements | Introduction to data cleaning | Handling missing values with Pandas | Removing duplicates and irrelevant columns | Formatting and transforming data types

Objective: Introduce Git, Jupyter, Colab, and environment setup.

Live Class 1: What is Git and why use it | Basic Git commands: init, add, commit | Understanding version control | What is GitHub and how it works | Creating and managing repositories on GitHub | Cloning and pushing code | Branching and merging basics | Typical project folder structure | Best practices for organizing codebase

Live Class 2: What is Jupyter Notebook | Running and managing code cells | Introduction to Google Colab | Uploading and sharing notebooks | Writing clean and readable code | Using comments and proper indentation | Writing Markdown in notebooks | Formatting text, lists, and code blocks with Markdown | Creating headings and notes for better understanding

Live Class 1: Introduction to logistic regression | Understanding sigmoid function and probabilities | Binary classification with logistic regression | Introduction to K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) | How KNN makes predictions based on distance | Choosing the right value of K | Introduction to decision trees | Splitting criteria: Gini and Entropy | Overfitting and pruning in decision trees | Comparing logistic, KNN, and decision trees

Live Class 2: What is a confusion matrix | Understanding TP, FP, TN, FN | Calculating precision and recall | What is F1 score and why it matters | Balancing precision and recall | Introduction to ROC curve | Interpreting ROC-AUC score | Choosing metrics based on problem type

Project: Diabetes Detection System

Live Class 1: Introduction to neural networks | Structure of a neural network: neurons, layers, activation functions | Forward propagation process | Calculating outputs in a neural network | What is backpropagation | Adjusting weights during backpropagation | Gradient descent and learning rate | Role of loss function in training | Training a neural network through epochs

Live Class 2: Introduction to activation functions | Common activation functions: Sigmoid, ReLU, Tanh | Why activation functions are needed in neural networks | Introduction to loss functions | Mean Squared Error and Cross-Entropy Loss | How loss functions guide model training | Implementing a simple neural network | Forward propagation in a simple NN | Using backpropagation to update weights | Training the model with gradient descent

Project: MNIST Digit Classifier

Live Class 1: Introduction to Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) | How RNNs handle sequential data | Vanishing gradient problem in RNNs | Introduction to Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks | How LSTMs address the vanishing gradient issue | Structure of LSTM cells: forget, input, and output gates | Using RNNs and LSTMs for time series and text data | Sequential data processing with RNNs and LSTMs | Applications of RNN and LSTM in NLP and time series analysis

Live Class 2: Introduction to time-series forecasting | Using LSTM for sequential data prediction | Preprocessing time-series data for LSTM | Reshaping data for LSTM input | Defining LSTM architecture for forecasting | Training the LSTM model on time-series data | Evaluating the model with loss functions | Making predictions using the trained LSTM model | Visualizing forecast results vs actual values | Fine-tuning the model for better performance

Project: Sales Prediction Tool

Objective: Build math foundations for machine learning models.

Live Class 1: Introduction to vectors | Vector addition and scalar multiplication | Understanding matrices | Matrix dimensions and structure | Matrix operations: addition and multiplication | Dot product between vectors | Geometric interpretation of dot product | Applications of dot product in data science

Live Class 2: Introduction to probability concepts | Basic rules of probability | What is statistics and its role in data analysis | Calculating mean and median | Understanding variance and standard deviation | Introduction to data distributions | Normal distribution and its properties | Other common distributions: binomial, Poisson

Live Class 1: Introduction to linear regression | Fitting a line to data using least squares | Understanding slope and intercept | What is overfitting in regression | Introduction to regularization | Ridge regression and L2 penalty | Lasso regression and L1 penalty | Comparing ridge and lasso | When to use ridge vs lasso

Live Class 2: Introduction to model evaluation | What is Mean Absolute Error (MAE) | Interpreting MAE in regression models | What is Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE) | Difference between MAE and RMSE | What is R-squared (R²) | Interpreting R² as model accuracy | Choosing the right metric for evaluation

Project: House Price Predictor

Live Class 1: Introduction to K-Means clustering | How K-Means groups similar data points | Choosing number of clusters | What is the Elbow Method | Using Elbow Method to find optimal K | Introduction to PCA (Principal Component Analysis) | Reducing dimensionality with PCA | Interpreting principal components | PCA vs clustering: when to use what

Live Class 2: Introduction to customer segmentation | Importance of segmenting customers | Clustering customers based on behavior or demographics | Using K-Means for customer segmentation | Visualizing clusters with scatter plots | Interpreting the segmented data | Visualizing customer profiles using bar charts and histograms | Using heatmaps for correlation analysis

Project: Customer Segmentation Engine

Live Class 1: Introduction to Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) | CNN architecture overview: input, convolution, pooling, fully connected layers | What is a convolution layer and its purpose | Applying filters to input images | Understanding kernel size and stride | Max pooling and average pooling layers | Reducing spatial dimensions with pooling | Role of convolution and pooling in feature extraction

Live Class 2: Introduction to image classification | Overview of CNN for image classification | Using Keras for building CNN models | Loading and preprocessing image data | Defining the CNN architecture in Keras | Adding convolution, activation, and pooling layers | Flattening and adding fully connected layers | Compiling the model with optimizer, loss, and metrics | Training the model with image data | Evaluating model performance on test data

Project: Dog vs Cat Image Classifier

Live Class 1: Introduction to Flask for building APIs | Setting up a basic Flask app | Creating endpoints for serving machine learning models | Loading a pre-trained model with Flask | Handling HTTP requests for predictions | Parsing input data from JSON or form data | Making predictions using the model | Returning predictions in the API response | Testing the Flask API locally | Deploying the Flask API on cloud platforms

Live Class 2: Introduction to Docker containerization | Creating a Dockerfile for your application | Building and running Docker containers | Dockerizing a Flask app for model serving | Introduction to Postman for API testing | Sending requests and testing Flask API with Postman | Analyzing API responses and troubleshooting | Basics of cloud deployment | Deploying Dockerized applications on cloud platforms | Using services like AWS, Heroku, or Google Cloud for deployment

Project: Deployed Machine Learning API