DSEA

Data Science East Africa 10 Weeks Physical BootCamp Curriculum

June 2021

With Assured 2 months Internship @Luxury Inc Labs

Data Science Curriculum

Programming Skills

Python Programming: Writing functions, logic, control flow, python packages, object Oriented programming and building basic applications, as well as common data analysis libraries like NumPy and pandas

R programming language: Writing functions, logic, control flow, installing and working with R packages

SQL programming: Querying databases using joins, aggregations, and subqueries

Comfortable with using the Terminal, version control in Git, and using GitHub

Probability and statistics

Descriptive Statistics: Calculating measures of center and spread, estimation distributions

Inferential Statistics: Sampling distributions, hypothesis testing

Probability: Probability theory, conditional probability

Mathematics

Calculus: Maximizing and minimizing algebraic equations

Linear Algebra: Matrix manipulation and multiplication

Data Collection and wrangling

Accessing database, CSV, and JSON data

Data cleaning and transformations using pandas and Sklearn

Data visualization with Python and R

Exploratory data analysis and visualization

Explanatory data visualizations and dashboards

Machine Learning

Feature Engineering

Supervised Learning: Regression, classification, decision trees, random forest

Unsupervised Learning: PCA, Clustering

Reinforcement Learning

Other Important Topics

Projects and Assessment

1

Exploratory Data Analysis

2

Airplane Detection for Satelite

3

Research With Demos

4

Financial Inclusion in Africa

5

Heart Disease Prediction

Certification and Prizes

For every project that will be done, the followong prizes will be given:

Position1

  • A book, data visualization in Python By Daniel Nelson

Position2

  • Data Science East Africa hoodie
  • HeadPhones

Position3

  • Data Science East Africa Tshirt
  • Notebook

SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE

TERMS OF THE PROGRAM

The learner is entitle to 40% refund if he/she will spend more then 14 months without a job after the program.

COST OF THE PROGRAM

Student: Ksh 30500

Non Student: Ksh 32500

DURATION

The Data Science bootcamp program is comprised of content, instructor led classes, screen sharing and collaboration tools, mentor-ship, weekly stand ups and curriculum to support all our learners. Learners will be able to ask questions and get help during class as they work through hands-on classes.

We estimate that learners can complete the program in 10 weeks months working 35 hours per week.

Note that:

All finalist will be offered a 2 months internship with a sentipend of 350 Ksh every day.