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Here's a weekly module schedule for a learning path in data analytics, complete with
mini-projects. This plan is designed to cover foundational topics and progressively build up
your skills over a 12-week period.
Week 1: Python Basics
Modules:
Introduction to Python
Variables and Data Types
Control Structures (if, for, while)
Functions and Modules
Mini-Project:
Write a Python program to analyze text data (e.g., word count, frequency of specific
words).
Write a Python program to analyze healthcare data (e.g. ).
Week 2: Data Structures and Libraries
Modules:
Lists, Tuples, Sets, Dictionaries
Introduction to NumPy
Basic operations with NumPy arrays
Mini-Project:
Create a Python script that performs basic statistical analysis on a dataset (mean,
median, mode).
Week 3: Data Manipulation with Pandas
Modules:
Introduction to Pandas
Series and DataFrame basics
Data loading, cleaning, and transformation
Mini-Project:
Build a data cleaning pipeline to process a messy dataset (e.g., handling missing
values, data type conversions).
Week 4: Data Visualization
Modules:
Introduction to Matplotlib
Plotting with Seaborn
Advanced visualization techniques
Mini-Project:
Create a comprehensive data visualization dashboard for a given dataset (e.g.,
COVID-19 data trends).
Week 5: Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)
Modules:
Introduction to EDA
Descriptive statistics
Identifying patterns and anomalies
Mini-Project:
Perform EDA on a publicly available dataset (e.g., Iris dataset) and summarize key
insights.
Week 6: Introduction to Databases and SQL
Modules:
Introduction to relational databases
SQL basics (SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE)
Querying databases with SQL
Mini-Project:
Design a simple database schema and write SQL queries to extract meaningful
insights from the data.
Week 7: Advanced SQL and Data Integration
Modules:
Advanced SQL queries (JOINs, subqueries, window functions)
Integrating SQL with Python (using sqlite3 or SQLAlchemy)
Mini-Project:
Integrate data from multiple tables and perform complex queries to analyze the data
(e.g., sales data analysis).
Week 8: Introduction to Machine Learning
Modules:
Basics of machine learning
Supervised vs. unsupervised learning
Introduction to Scikit-Learn
Mini-Project:
Implement a simple linear regression model to predict house prices using Scikit-
Learn.
Week 9: Data Preprocessing and Feature Engineering
Modules:
Data preprocessing techniques
Handling categorical and missing data
Feature engineering and selection
Mini-Project:
Prepare a dataset for machine learning by applying various preprocessing techniques
and feature engineering.
Week 10: Classification and Regression Models
Modules:
Classification algorithms (Logistic Regression, Decision Trees)
Regression algorithms (Linear Regression, Random Forest)
Mini-Project:
Build and evaluate a classification model to predict whether a patient has diabetes
based on medical data.
Week 11: Clustering and Dimensionality Reduction
Modules:
Clustering algorithms (K-Means, Hierarchical Clustering)
Dimensionality reduction techniques (PCA, t-SNE)
Mini-Project:
Apply clustering to segment customers based on purchasing behavior and visualize
the results using dimensionality reduction.
Week 12: Time Series Analysis and Forecasting
Modules:
Introduction to time series data
Time series decomposition
Forecasting models (ARIMA, Prophet)
Mini-Project:
Perform time series analysis on stock price data and build a model to forecast future
prices.
Additional Resources
Online Courses: Platforms like Coursera, edX, and Udemy offer 2wq3courses that
align with this schedule.
Books: "Python for Data Analysis" by Wes McKinney, "Hands-On Machine Learning
with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow" by Aurélien Géron.
Tools: Jupyter Notebook, VSCode, GitHub for version control.
By following this schedule, you will build a strong foundation in data analytics, from basic
Python programming to advanced machine learning techniques, and apply your skills through
practical mini-projects.
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