IIT Roorkee Offering Online Certification in Data Science! Become a Data Scientist by Enrolling Now!

IIT Roorkee has invited applications from interested candidates for a 12-month certificate online course in data science that aims at helping participants to begin a career in the field of data science. The course covers some of the most trending and latest technologies in the market, and also comes with Cloudxlab access to gain hands-on experience to solve real world problems. Participants of the course will be presented with a certificate from IIT Roorkee upon completion of the course. 

Students in their final year of undergraduate degree or have completed their undergraduation are eligible to apply for the course. The participants of the course would be required to complete at least 75% of the course, 1 capstone project and 6 guided projects such as Analyse emails from Python, Sentiment Analysis (Hive) from Hadoop, Log Parsing from Spark, 3 mandatory projects from machine learning within the deadline of the course to be eligible for the certificate from IIT Roorkee.

IIT Roorkee Data Science: Course Highlights and Details

Some of the topics that will be covered under IIT Roorkee Data Analytics course over a period of one year are as follows:

• Linux for data science
• Getting started with Git
• Python foundations.
• Machine learning prerequisites including Numpy, Pandas and linear algebra.
• Getting started with SQL.
• Statistics foundations.
• Machine learning applications and landscape.
• Building end-to-end machine learning projects.
• Classification.
• Training models.
• Support vector machines.
• Decision trees. 
• Ensemble learning and random forests

The director of IIT Roorkee Prof. Ajit K. Chaturvedi through a press release apprised that the introduction of these emerging courses like Data Science and Machine Learning on an online platform would help many aspirants acquire them for their professional growth. In an official statement he said that they are happy to announce certificate courses in data science, machine learning, and Artificial Intelligence in partnership with Coursera. This will enable a high number of aspirants to acquire these relevant areas for their professional growth.

Why should you pursue a Data Science Course?

The newly introduced courses in Data Science and Machine Learning will develop relevant programming skills in Python and R. There are a plethora of reasons to go for a Data Science course. A course in Data Science would help learners to understand the algorithms used in data analytics. It will also help to build knowledge about the selected ML algorithms such as linear models, kNN, SVM, Decision Trees, and neural networks, and much more. The interested candidates taking up this course must note that this program doesn’t require any prior knowledge of coding in Python or R. Most of the relevant components are covered in the program.

Click here to apply for IIT Roorkee Data Science Course

About IIT Roorkee

IIT Roorkee is one of the top 150+ universities offering programs at Coursera. For over 170 years, IIT Roorkee has been India's leading institution known for its rigorous technical program. By launching an online data science and machine learning program, learners can acquire the latest skills needed to advance their careers. The first cohort is scheduled to begin in 2022.

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