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About This Course — Introduction to Data Analytics Notes

Introduction to Data Analytics — University Course

This course covers Introduction to Data Analytics as taught in undergraduate/postgraduate BCA/MCA/BTech university courses. The syllabus is divided into 4 units — data fundamentals and preparation, statistical foundations with exploratory data analysis, predictive and descriptive analytics (machine learning), and Python tooling with big data technologies.

Syllabus at a Glance:

Unit	Hours	Topics
Unit 1	12	Data, information and knowledge; types of data; data analytics process and lifecycle; applications; data collection, sampling techniques, data cleaning, preprocessing, transformation
Unit 2	12	Measures of central tendency and dispersion; correlation; probability basics; Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA); data visualization — histograms, box plots, scatter plots; introduction to hypothesis testing
Unit 3	12	Supervised vs unsupervised learning; classification, regression; Naïve Bayes, K-Nearest Neighbour, linear regression; clustering, K-Means, hierarchical clustering; association rule mining and the Apriori algorithm
Unit 4	10	NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn; data import/export, manipulation and visualization; big data fundamentals, the Hadoop ecosystem, MapReduce, applications of data analytics

What you will learn:

How raw data becomes information, then knowledge, then a decision — and the full lifecycle a real analytics project follows
How to collect, sample, clean, preprocess, and transform messy real-world data into an analysis-ready dataset
The statistics an analyst actually uses daily — central tendency, dispersion, correlation, probability, and hypothesis testing
Exploratory Data Analysis with histograms, box plots, and scatter plots, and how to read what each chart is telling you
Core machine learning algorithms — Naïve Bayes, KNN, linear regression, K-Means, hierarchical clustering, and Apriori — with worked hand calculations and runnable Python
The practical Python stack (NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn) plus how big data systems (Hadoop, HDFS, MapReduce) scale analytics beyond one machine

PYQ papers are available at the end of the lesson list.