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IIT Roorkee launches online summer training program on Data Science

 
        BY   DIVAKAR KUMAR PANDAY.

Data Science has become an essential part of everyday life. It has emerged as a critical component of modern business intelligence. The technology brings various aspects such as availability of data, computational processing and growing volumes together. IIT Roorkee is organising an online summer training program on Data Science using Python.

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee and Thomason College of Civil Engineering have come together for an online summer training program. The program is organised from July 9 to 22, 2020. The program is designed to provide the foundation of Python scripting and its principles. You can learn how to design and implement the real-world inspired ML and DL algorithms applications. The program boosts your career prospects through innovative and independent learning.

Program content includes the following topics:

  • Introduction to packages in Python
  • Numpy, Pandas, EDA
  • Supervised and Unsupervised Learning
  • Linear Regression, Logistic Regression
  • Clustering, K-means
  • NLP (Natural Language Processing)
  • Image processing with MLP (Multi-layer perceptron)
  • Projects and Assignments

The program features 40 hours of instructor-led classes. It also includes lectures from IIT Roorkee along with hands-on sessions from industry experts. The program includes technical talks from NVIDIA and IBM Research. The course has a session on incubation and entrepreneurship.

Last date for registration: July 7th, 2020
Seats: 60 seats on first-come-first-serve basis
Duration: 14 days/40 hours
Registration fee: Rs. 8000/- Applicable to all (non-refundable)

How to apply:
You can apply online by filling up the online application form. The offline form can be downloaded on the official website. The candidates can apply for the program by emailing a scanned copy of the filled application to eict@iitr.ac.in.

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