IIT Madras Offers Free Online Course on Python for Data Science for 4 week

IIT Madras is accepting applications from students, professionals, and anyone who is interested for a free online course called Python for Data Science on the SWAYAM NPTEL platform. The course aims at enabling participants to be able to use python programming for solving data science problems. The course could be most suitable for final year undergraduate students with a basic knowledge of data science algorithms.

The course will be conduct on SWAYAM NPTEL. Participants can wish to get a certificate for the course by paying Rs.1000 and clearing an exam to be conducted on 26 September 2021.

IIT Madras is accepting applications from students, professionals, and anyone who is interested for a free online course called Python for Data Science on the SWAYAM NPTEL platform. The course aims at enabling participants to be able to use python programming for solving data science problems. The course could be most suitable for final year undergraduate students with a basic knowledge of data science algorithms.

What the IIT Madras Free Online Course on Python for Data Science Will Cover the syllabus?

The course will begin on 26 July 2021 and will be conducted up to 20 August 2021, and in 4 weeks the following topics will be covered:

• Basics of Python Spyder (tool).
• Sequence data types and associated operations.
• Pandas data frame and data frame related operations on Toyota Corolla dataset.
• Data visualization on Toyoto Corolla dataset using matplotlib and seaborn libraries.
• Control structures using Toyota Corolla dataset.
• Case study: Regression – Predicting the price of pre-owned cars, and Classification – classifying personal income.

Important Details about the IIT Madras Free Online Course on Python for Data Science

Participants who are interested to take part in the course will have to enroll on the official page by clicking on the Join button on the official website before 2 August 2021. Facebook, Google, Microsoft, or SWAYAM accounts may be used to enroll on the platform. Participants will be eligible for a certificate only if the average assignment score is more than or equal to 10/25 and the exam score is more than or equal to 30/75. If one of the 2 criteria is not met, participants will not get the certificate even if the final score is more than or equal to 40/100. Only the e-certificate with logos of NPTEL and IIT Madras will be made available, and hard copies will not be dispatched.

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Rakuten India Announces RAAI 2021

Rakuten india Applied - a Bangalore-based Technology Hub for Rakuten Group, Inc — in association with Analytics India Magazine, announces RAAI 2021, a virtual applied AI conference for data scientists and AI leaders across the globe. The conference will highlight the role of applied artificial intelligence in solving business problems & real-world challenges.

Modern, innovative and forward-thinking companies have started leveraging artificial intelligence to drive growth. Rakuten’s Applied AI Conference or RAAI 2021 aims to bring together such innovators, AI evangelists, thought leaders and leading data scientists across domains such as customer & product sciences, advanced AI research, data science platforms, and business analytics on a single platform to share and discuss recent developments in the field.

The two-day virtual conference — scheduled for 19th & 20th August 2021 — will see participation from the leading data science professionals, AI practitioners, and game-changing researchers in the field. In addition, the virtual conference will take a deep dive into the latest AI business use cases and implementation opportunities and showcase the challenges of certain domains.

Talking about RAAI 2021, Sunil Gopinath, CEO, Rakuten India Enterprise Pvt. Ltd., said, “Applied AI has gained massive traction in the current era, transforming every possible industry. Therefore, the need to have an in-depth understanding is critical. Rakuten’s Applied AI conference has been designed to help the global data community build a solid foundation on ways artificial intelligence can help in solving some critical business problems and how an organisation can build or evaluate AI models, enhance its operations and expand capabilities.”

RAAI 2021 is expected to line up several extraordinary speakers from the industry. The Rakuten Applied AI conference anticipates the participation of 2500+ attendees from around the world. The event will provide the attendees with the know-how of tackling day-to-day AI challenges and ways to foster innovation.

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Highlights of RAAI 2021:

• Talks by leading experts from the industry.
• Learn how businesses transform and scale up using AI.
• Network with key decision-makers/data artists who drive AI strategies in their organisations.
• Experts from some of the leading organisations give you a sneak peek into the future of data science products and solutions. 
• Exclusive opportunity to connect and build long-lasting relationships with prominent industry researchers.

Who Should Attend:

CIOs, CTOs, AI evangelists, innovation heads, data scientists, teams working on analytics & business intelligence and anyone interested in the AI and analytics domain can gain valuable insights from this two-day virtual applied AI conference.