B.E. (Computer Engineering) Applied Data Science Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026
The University has moved this degree onto NEP 2020 one year at a time. The first and second years are NEP 2020 syllabi; the third and fourth years are still examined on the REV-2019 'C' Scheme, which is what the University sets for them this year.
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Syllabus for Applied Data Science
Module 1: Introduction to Data Science
- Introduction to Data Science, Data Science Process 1.1 Motivation to use Data Science Techniques: Volume, Dimensions and
- 1.2 Complexity, Data Science Tasks and Examples Overview of Data Preparation, Modeling, Difference between data
- 1.3 science and data analytics
Module 2: Data Exploration
- Types of data, Properties of data Descriptive Statistics: Univariate Exploration: Measure of Central Tendency, Measure of Spread, Symmetry, Skewness: Karl Pearson Coefficient of skewness, 2.1 Bowley’s Coefficient, Kurtosis Multivariate Exploration: Central Data Point, Correlation, Different forms of correlation, Karl Pearson Correlation Coefficient for bivariate distribution Inferential Statistics: Overview of Various forms of distributions: Normal, Poisson, Test 2.2 Hypothesis, Central limit theorem, Confidence Interval, Z-test, t-test, Type-I, Type-II Errors, ANOVA
Module 3: Methodology and Data Visualization
- Methodology: Overview of model building, Cross Validation, K 3.1 fold cross validation, leave-1 out, Bootstrapping Data Visualization Univariate Visualization: Histogram, Quartile, Distribution Chart
- 3.2 Multivariate Visualization: Scatter Plot, Scatter Matrix, Bubble chart, Density Chart Roadmap for Data Exploration Self-Learning Topics: Visualizing high dimensional data: Parallel
- 3.3 chart, Deviation chart, Andrews Curves.
Module 4: Anomaly Detection
- Outliers, Causes of Outliers, Anomaly detection techniques, Outlier
- 4.1 Detection using Statistics Outlier Detection using Distance based method, Outlier detection using
- 4.2 density-based methods, SMOTE
Module 5: Time Series Forecasting
- Taxonomy of Time Series Forecasting methods, Time Series 5.1 Decomposition Smoothening Methods: Average method, Moving Average smoothing, Time series analysis using linear regression, ARIMA Model, 5.2 Performance Evaluation: Mean Absolute Error, Root Mean Square Error, Mean Absolute Percentage Error, Mean Absolute Scaled Error Self-Learning Topics: Evaluation parameters for Classification, 5.3 regression and clustering.
Module 6: Applications of Data Science
- Predictive Modeling: House price prediction, Fraud Detection Clustering: Customer Segmentation Time series forecasting: Weather Forecasting Recommendation engines: Product recommendation
Textbooks
- 1 Vijay Kotu, Bala Deshpande. “Data Science Concepts and Practice”, Elsevier, M.K. Publishers.
- 2 Steven Skiena, “Data Science Design Manual”, Springer International Publishing AG
- 3 Samir Madhavan. “Mastering Python for Data Science”, PACKT Publishing
- 4 Dr. P. N. Arora, Sumeet Arora, S. Arora, Ameet Arora, “Comprehensive Statistical Methods”, S.Chand Publications, New Delhi.
- 1 Jake VanderPlas. “Python Data Science Handbook”, O’reilly Publications.
- 2 Francesco Ricci, LiorRokach, BrachaShapira, Paul B. Kantor, “Recommender Systems Handbook”, Springer.
- 3 S.C. Gupta, V. K. Kapoor “Fundamentals of Mathematical Statistics”, S. Chand and Sons, New Delhi.
- 4 B. L. Agrawal. “Basic Statistics”, New Age Publications, Delhi. https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc22_cs32/preview 1 https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc21_cs69/preview 2
Reproduced from the University of Mumbai syllabus for B.E. (Computer Engineering) under REV-2019 'C' Scheme, in force from the academic year 2022-23. Wording is as printed in that syllabus. Module numbering is as printed there too.
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