A Comprehensive Learning Path to Become a Data Scientist in 2025

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  • 3000+Students Enrolled

  • 2 Hrs Duration

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About this Course

  • Follow a structured learning path designed to help you begin your data science career with clarity, making the complex field more manageable and focused on essential skills.
  • Master the most in-demand skills for 2023, including effective storytelling, model deployment, and other crucial competencies to stand out in the competitive data science field.
  • Gain hands-on experience with carefully designed exercises and assignments that allow you to apply your knowledge and build real-world skills in data science.

Learning Outcomes

Detail Data Science Path

A structured journey to kickstart your data science career.

Essential 2025 Skills

Learn in-demand skills and deployment and master the important skills.

Practical Exercises

Build hands-on experience with exercises and assignments.

Who Should Enroll

  • Aspiring Data Scientists: Ideal for those starting a career in data science and looking for a structured learning path.
  • Professionals : Perfect for professionals wanting to transition into data science with a focused learning journey
  • Tech Enthusiasts : Great for anyone passionate about data science and wanting to develop in-demand skills for 2025.

Course Curriculum

Explore a comprehensive curriculum covering Python, machine learning models, deep learning techniques, and AI applications.

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  1. 1. Overview of Learning Path in data science

  2. 2. Month-on-Month Action Plan

  3. 3. AI&ML Blackbelt Plus Program

  1. 1. Plan for January

  2. 2. Understanding Machine Learning and its impact

  3. 3. Job of Data Scientist

  4. 4. Overview of the Course

  5. 5. A brief introduction to Python

  6. 6. Installing Python

  7. 7. Theory of Operators

  8. 8. Understanding Operators in Python

  9. 9. Operators Test

  10. 10. Understanding variables and data types

  11. 11. Variable Test

  12. 12. Variables and Data Types in Python

  13. 13. Understanding Conditional Statements

  14. 14. Implementing Conditional Statements in Python

  15. 15. Conditional Statements test

  16. 16. Understanding Looping Constructs

  17. 17. Implementing Looping Constructs in Python

  18. 18. Looping Constructs test

  19. 19. Understanding Functions

  20. 20. Implementing Functions in Python

  21. 21. Functions test

  22. 22. A brief introduction to data structure

  23. 23. Data Structure test

  24. 24. Understanding the concept of Lists

  25. 25. Lists test

  26. 26. Implementing Lists in Python

  27. 27. Understanding the concept of Dictionaries

  28. 28. Implementing Dictionaries in Python

  29. 29. Dictionaries test

  30. 30. Understanding the concept of Standard Libraries

  31. 31. Libraries test

  32. 32. Reading a CSV File in Python - Introduction to Pandas

  33. 33. Reading a CSV file in Python: Implementation

  34. 34. Reading a csv file in Python test

  35. 35. Understanding dataframes and basic operations

  36. 36. DataFrames and basic operations test

  37. 37. Reading dataframes and conduct basic operations in Python

  38. 38. Reading dataframes and conduct basic operations in Python Test

  39. 39. Indexing a Dataframe

  40. 40. Indexing DataFrames test

  41. 41. Sorting Dataframes

  42. 42. Merging Dataframes

  43. 43. Apply function

  44. 44. Aggregating data

  45. 45. Basics of Matplotlib

  46. 46. Data Visualization using Matplotlib

  47. 47. Basics of Seaborn

  48. 48. Data Visualization using Seaborn

  49. 49. Regular Expressions

  50. 50. Understanding Regular Expressions

  51. 51. Regular Expressions in Python

  52. 52. Cheatsheet for Python

  53. 53. Instructions

  54. 54. Python Coding Challenge

  1. 1. The Power of Visualization

  2. 2. What is Data Visualization and Why Should we Use it

  3. 3. Exercise - Definition of Data Visualization

  4. 4. Hans Rosling - 200 Countries 200 Years 4 Minutes

  5. 5. 4 Key Elements of Effective Data Visualizations

  6. 6. Why Tableau is a Powerful Tool for Professionals

  7. 7. What We Will Cover in this Course

  8. 8. Compare Tableau Against Power BI and Qlik

  9. 9. The Tableau Range of Products

  10. 10. The 5 Tableau Products you should Know

  11. 11. Installing Tableau Public on your System

  12. 12. Navigating the Tableau Interface

  13. 13. Installing Tableau Public on your System

  14. 14. Difference Between Tableau Server and Tableau Online

  15. 15. Navigating the Tableau Interface (Part 1)

  16. 16. Navigating the Tableau Interface (Part 2)

  17. 17. Connecting to Data Sources in Tableau

  18. 18. Understanding the Problem Statement

  19. 19. Download the Superstore Dataset

  20. 20. Loading the Dataset and Getting Familiar with the Variables

  21. 21. Build your First Visualization in Tableau!

  22. 22. Hands-On with Labels and Formatting

  23. 23. Playing Around with Colors

  24. 24. Using Filters to Build a Pivot Structure in Tableau

  25. 25. Exporting your Tableau Worksheet

  26. 26. The Different Chart Types in Tableau

  27. 27. Line Charts - Working with Time Series Data

  28. 28. Building Line Charts in Tableau

  29. 29. Exercise - Sales of Each Category Month-by-Month

  30. 30. Generating Map Visualizations for Geospatial Analysis

  31. 31. Map Visualizations in Tableau

  32. 32. Exercise - Sales by City Analysis

  33. 33. Bar Charts, Histograms, Scatter Plots, Bubble Charts, Pie Charts

  34. 34. Dual Axis Charts in Tableau

  35. 35. Date Dual Axis Charts in Tableau

  36. 36. What are Calculated Fields?

  37. 37. Feature Engineering in Tableau - Average Shipping Time

  38. 38. Exercise - Number of Orders per State

  39. 39. Calculating the Average Order Value

  40. 40. Average Order Value for Product Sub-Categories

  41. 41. What are Parameters in Tableau?

  42. 42. Using Parameters to find Top N Customers

  43. 43. Using Parameters to Analyze Superstore's Variable Values

  44. 44. Joins and their Different Types in Tableau

  45. 45. Performing Data Joining in Tableau

  46. 46. What is Blending? How is it Different from Joins?

  47. 47. Blending Data in Tableau

  48. 48. Download the Coffee Chain Dataset

  49. 49. Introduction to Dashboards and their Use Cases

  50. 50. Reading Material - Dashboards in Tableau

  51. 51. Designing your First Dashboard in Tableau

  52. 52. Using Parameters to Create Dynamic Dashboards

  53. 53. How to Upload your Work to the Tableau Public Gallery

  54. 54. Designing the Blueprint for a Multi-Dashboard View to Analyze Sales

  55. 55. Building Multiple Interlinked Dashboards in Tableau for our Business

  56. 56. The Art of Storytelling

  57. 57. 3-Step Storytelling Framework

  58. 58. Sketching the Story Blueprint

  59. 59. Profits by Region Analysis using Storyboard in Tableau

  60. 60. Capstone Project: Sales and Profit by Segment using Storyboards in Tableau

  61. 61. Getting started with SQL

  62. 62. Introduction

  63. 63. Why do we need databases?

  64. 64. What is a database?

  65. 65. Some properties of a Good Database

  66. 66. Types of Databases

  67. 67. How data is Stored in Relational Databases

  68. 68. How data is stored in NoSQL databases

  69. 69. Companies using MySQ

  70. 70. Architecture: Client and Server

  71. 71. MySQL Distributions

  72. 72. Local Installation on Mac

  73. 73. Local Installation on Linux

  74. 74. Local Installation on Windows

  75. 75. Accessing a remote MySQL server

  76. 76. Graphical user interfaces

  77. 77. SQL - Installation Guide

  78. 78. What exactly is SQL?

  79. 79. History of SQL

  80. 80. Connecting to MySQL

  81. 81. Types of Commands - DDL (Creation/ Deletion/ Updating of Schema

  82. 82. Types of Commands - DML (Manipulating data in tables)

  83. 83. Types of Commands - DCL (Managing Access control)

  84. 84. Exploring databases

  85. 85. Creating tables

  86. 86. Inserting data in tables

  87. 87. SELECT Statement - Introduction

  88. 88. Datatypes in MySQL

  89. 89. NULL vs NOT NULL

  90. 90. Update command – Concept

  91. 91. Update command – Example

  92. 92. Delete command – Concept

  93. 93. Delete command – Example

  94. 94. Describe command – Concept

  95. 95. Describe command – Example

  96. 96. Alter command – Concept and Example

  97. 97. Importing data from CSV to MySQL

  98. 98. Exporting data from MySQL to CSV

  99. 99. Backing up databases

  100. 100. Restoring databases

  101. 101. Importing and Exporting Datasets - Troubleshooting Guide

  102. 102. Counting Rows and Items

  103. 103. Aggregation Functions – SUM, AVG, STDDEV

  104. 104. Extreme Values Identification – MIN, MAX

  105. 105. Filtering Patterns

  106. 106. Groupings, Rolling up data and Filtering in Groups

  107. 107. Data Eyeballing

  108. 108. Data Dictionary

  109. 109. Questions we need answers of

  110. 110. Analyzing data and creating table structure

  111. 111. Loading data to our MySQL table

  112. 112. Data Analysis – Simple Queries

  113. 113. Data Analysis – Advanced Queries

  114. 114. FIFA19 Players dataset (cleaned) for this Project

  115. 115. The need for joins

  116. 116. Different type of joins

  117. 117. The Left Join - Concept

  118. 118. The Left Join – Practical Example

  119. 119. The Inner Join

  120. 120. The Cross Join

  121. 121. The Right Join

  122. 122. The Self Join

  123. 123. Introduction to Indexing

  124. 124. How indexing works (basics)

  125. 125. Knowing Relationships

  126. 126. Types of Relationships

  127. 127. Table Constraints – PRIMARY KEY, FOREIGN KEY, UNIQUENESS and AUTO INCREMENT

  128. 128. String functions - CONCAT

  129. 129. String functions – Case Conversion

  130. 130. String functions – Trimming Strings

  131. 131. String functions – Extracting Substrings

  132. 132. Date/ Time functions – Current date and time

  133. 133. Date/ Time functions – Extracting date and time from field

  134. 134. Date/ Time functions – Formatting date and time as Strings

  135. 135. Numeric functions

  136. 136. SQL CheatSheet

  137. 137. Setting up a virtual environment

  138. 138. Installing the required packages

  139. 139. Connecting to MySQL

  140. 140. Connecting to database table and pulling data

  141. 141. Querying the database- INSERT

  142. 142. Querying the database- DELETE

  143. 143. Querying the database- SEARCH

  144. 144. Querying the database- INDEXING

  1. 1. Overview of Statistics

  2. 2. Important applications of Statistics

  3. 3. What is Descriptive Statistics?

  4. 4. Introduction to Design experiments

  5. 5. Visualizing Data

  6. 6. Central tendency

  7. 7. Unimodal Distribution of Data

  8. 8. Bimodal Distribution of Data

  9. 9. Normal distribution – Part 1

  10. 10. Normal distribution – Part 2

  11. 11. Understanding Z-Score

  12. 12. Introduction to Probability- An Overview

  13. 13. Principal Of Counting

  14. 14. Conditional Probability – Part 1

  15. 15. Architecture: Client and Server

  16. 16. Binomial Distribution

  17. 17. Random variable

  18. 18. Expectation and variance

  19. 19. Statistics: Inferential-Hypothesis Testing

  1. 1. Overview of Machine Learning

  2. 2. Understanding Data Science Pipeline

  3. 3. Linear Regression

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Our instructor and mentors carry years of experience in data industry

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Kunal Jain

Founder & CEO, Analytics Vidhya

Kunal has 15+ years of experience in the field of Data Science and is the founder and CEO of Analytics Vidhya- the world's 2nd largest Data Science community.

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The course includes data analysis, machine learning algorithms, model deployment, data visualization, and storytelling techniques—all essential for a career in data science.

You will learn to use popular tools and technologies such as Python, R, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, SQL, and cloud platforms for data processing, model building, and deployment.

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