1️⃣ 📊 Introduction & Data Science Foundations
What is Data Science?
Need for Data Scientists
Foundations of Data Science
What is Business Intelligence
What is Data Analysis vs Data Mining
Analytics vs Data Science
Value Chain, Types of Analytics
Lifecycle Probability & Analytics Project Lifecycle
2️⃣ 🧮 Statistics & Data Foundations
What is Statistics?
Descriptive Statistics
Measures of Central Tendency & Dispersion
Data Distributions & Central Limit Theorem
Sampling, Sampling Methods
Inferential Statistics
Hypothesis Testing
Confidence Levels, p-value, Chi-Square, ANOVA
Correlation vs Regression (just as data techniques)
3️⃣ 📁 Data
Data Categorization & Types of Data
Data Collection Types, Forms & Sources
Data Quality, Quality Issues & Resolution
Data Architecture & its Components
OLTP vs OLAP
How is Data Stored? (Databases, File Systems)
4️⃣ 🐍 Python for Data Science
🌟 Python Programming Core
Python Overview & Environment Setup (PATH, Scripts, IDEs)
Variables, Data Types, Operators
Strings, Lists, Tuples, Sets, Dictionaries
Indexing, Slicing, Iterating
Functions, Lambda Functions
Global & Local Scope
Modules, Packages, Import System
File Operations
Exception Handling
OOP in Python (Classes, Inheritance, Properties, Static & Class Methods)
🛠 Python Utilities
Sys, OS, Path libraries
Regular Expressions
Datetime, Random, Math Libraries
Debugging, Unit Testing, Logging
Working with Databases using sqlite3 (CRUD)
5️⃣ 📚 Data Manipulation & Exploration in Python
Using Numpy: arrays, broadcasting, math operations
Using Pandas: DataFrames, Series
Data Import: CSV, Excel, JSON, SQL databases
Handling Missing Values & Data Cleaning
Grouping, Aggregation, Sorting
Merging & Joining Datasets
Data Transformation & Slicing
Feature Engineering for EDA context (not ML features)
6️⃣ 🖼 Exploratory Data Analysis & Visualization in
Python
What is EDA & Why?
Goals & Types of EDA
Summary Statistics, Boxplots, Histograms
Correlation Heatmaps
Using Matplotlib & Seaborn for Visualization
Customizing plots, Subplots
Storytelling with Data, Principles of Effective Visualization
7️⃣ 🐘 Big Data & Distributed Computing Concepts
What is Big Data? The 5 Vs
Big Data Challenges & Requirements
Distributed Computing & Complexity
Hadoop Overview:
o Hadoop Ecosystem & Architecture
o HDFS, Block Storage, Replication, Fault Tolerance
o Hadoop vs RDBMS
MapReduce Concepts & Flows
Writing & Reading files in HDFS
8️⃣ 🐷 Big Data Tools & Ecosystems
🔷 Hadoop Ecosystem Hands-On
Hadoop Installation & Cluster Concepts (5 Daemons, Rack Awareness)
Configuration of Hadoop (Hardware & Software)
Logs, Job Tracker, NameNode Scalability
🔶 Pig
Pig Latin Syntax, Loading & Filtering Data
Grouping, Joins, Built-in Functions
ETL Processing Use Cases
🔷 Hive
Hive Architecture, HiveQL
Managed vs External Tables
Partitions & Buckets
Data Import, Querying & Aggregation
User Defined Functions (UDFs)
🔶 HBase
CAP Theorem, HBase Architecture
Data Model & Operations
ZooKeeper Service
🔷 Sqoop
Importing/Exporting Data between RDBMS & Hadoop
Incremental Loads
Integration with Hive & HBase
🔶 Flume
Data ingestion from multiple sources (eg: Twitter for sentiment data pipelines)
🔷 Oozie
Workflow Scheduler for Hadoop Jobs
Coordinators & Job Properties
9️⃣ ⚡ Apache Spark with Python (PySpark)
Why Spark? (vs Hadoop MR)
Spark Core Architecture
Spark Cluster Concepts & Execution
What is RDD? Lineage & Dependencies
Transformations vs Actions
Caching, Parallelism
Spark SQL, DataFrames
Processing CSV, JSON, Database Reads
Spark Streaming Concepts (Microbatch, DStreams)
🔟 📈 Project Work & Use Cases
Data Ingestion from Multiple Sources
Data Cleaning Pipelines
EDA with Pandas, Seaborn, Matplotlib
Data Stored & Queried via Hive / HBase
ETL Pipelines using Pig / Hive / Sqoop
Data Orchestration using Oozie
Spark-based aggregation & filtering for dashboards
Integration project (like social media data pipeline or healthcare/finance large dataset)
