🔰 PHASE 1: Machine Learning Basics
✅ Topics & Subtopics:
Data Preprocessing
Handling missing data
Encoding categorical variables
Feature scaling (Standardization/Normalization)
Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)
Visualizations with Matplotlib/Seaborn
Correlation analysis, histograms, boxplots
Supervised Learning
Regression
Simple Linear Regression
Multiple Linear Regression
Polynomial Regression
Ridge, Lasso, ElasticNet
Classification
Logistic Regression
K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN)
Decision Trees
Random Forest
Support Vector Machines (SVM)
Naive Bayes
Gradient Boosting (XGBoost, LightGBM, CatBoost)
Model Evaluation
Accuracy, Precision, Recall, F1-Score
Confusion Matrix, ROC-AUC
Cross-validation
📌 Beginner ML Projects:
Project Dataset Techniques
House Price Prediction Boston Housing Linear Regression
Titanic Survival Prediction Titanic Dataset Logistic Regression, EDA
Iris Species Classification Iris Dataset KNN, Decision Tree
Student Marks Prediction Custom Regression
🚀 PHASE 2: Intermediate Machine Learning
✅ Topics & Subtopics:
Unsupervised Learning
K-Means Clustering
Hierarchical Clustering
DBSCAN
Dimensionality Reduction
PCA (Principal Component Analysis)
t-SNE
LDA
Model Tuning
Grid Search CV
Random Search CV
Hyperparameter tuning
Feature Engineering
Feature extraction
Feature selection
Ensemble Learning
Voting Classifier
Bagging & Boosting
📌 Intermediate ML Projects:
Project Dataset Techniques
Customer Segmentation Mall Customer Dataset K-Means
Wine Quality Classification UCI Wine Dataset PCA + Random Forest
Credit Card Fraud Detection Kaggle Imbalanced Learning, XGBoost
Stock Market Prediction Yahoo Finance Time Series, Regression
🧠 PHASE 3: Deep Learning (DL)
✅ Topics & Subtopics:
Neural Network Basics
Perceptron, Activation Functions
Feedforward Neural Network
Backpropagation
Model Building with Keras/TensorFlow
Sequential API
Functional API
Optimization Techniques
SGD, Adam, RMSProp
Dropout, Batch Normalization
Learning rate scheduling, Early stopping
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN)
Image classification
Transfer Learning
Image Augmentation
Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN)
Simple RNN
LSTM, GRU
Time Series Forecasting
Advanced DL
Autoencoders
GANs (Generative Adversarial Networks)
Attention & Transformers
BERT and NLP models
📌 Deep Learning Projects:
Project Dataset Techniques
MNIST Digit Classifier MNIST ANN/CNN
Cat vs Dog Classifier Kaggle CNN, Data Augmentation
Sentiment Analysis IMDB RNN, LSTM
Face Mask Detection OpenCV + CNN Transfer Learning
Time Series Forecasting Stock Data LSTM
Image Colorization Custom Autoencoder
PHASE 4: End-to-End Project Pipeline
Each project should follow:
Load & clean dataset
EDA + Feature Engineering
Train-Test Split
Model Selection & Training
Evaluation & Metrics
Tuning & Optimization
Final model deployment (Optional: Flask or Streamlit)
🌐 Final Phase: Deployment (Optional but Powerful)
Flask / Streamlit web apps
Gradio interfaces
Dockerizing models
Heroku / AWS / Render deployment