Data Science and Machine Learning with Python

Course Content

1. Introduction to Data Science & Machine Learning
   • Data science lifecycle
   • Data science vs analytics vs engineering
   • Machine learning vs traditional programming
   • Types of machine learning (supervised, unsupervised)
   • Regression vs classification
   • Training vs testing data
   • Overfitting vs underfitting
2. Data Preparation Fundamentals
   • Introduction to data preparation
   • Features vs target variable
   • Train/test split
   • Handling missing values
   • Introduction to data quality
3. Data Cleaning & Encoding
   • Handling categorical variables
   • Encoding techniques (label encoding, one-hot encoding)
   • Identifying categorical vs numerical data
   • Data transformation basics
4. Feature Engineering
   • Creating new features
   • Extracting date-based features
   • Binning and grouping data
   • Log transformation
   • Feature importance (concept)
5. Data Preparation Pipeline
   • Feature scaling (StandardScaler, MinMaxScaler)
   • Feature selection (correlation, basic techniques)
   • Building a clean data pipeline
   • Preparing data for modelling
6. Supervised Learning: Regression
   • Introduction to regression
   • Linear regression (concept and Python)
   • Multiple linear regression
   • Making predictions
   • Model evaluation (MAE, MSE, R²)
   • Visualising regression results
7. Supervised Learning: Classification
   • Introduction to classification
   • Binary vs multi-class classification
   • Logistic regression (concept and Python)
   • Model evaluation (accuracy, precision, recall, confusion matrix)
   • Improving classification performance
8. Decision Trees and Random Forest
   • Concept and intuition
   • Decision Tree in Python
   • Controlling model complexity
   • Random Forest in Python
   • Comparing with Decision Trees
9. Time Series & Forecasting
   • Time-based data concepts
   • Basic forecasting techniques
   • Real-world business applications
10. Unsupervised Learning: Clustering
    • Introduction to clustering
    • K-Means clustering (concept)
    • K-Means in Python
    • Choosing number of clusters (Elbow method)
    • Business applications of clustering
11. Model Evaluation & Deployment
    • Why model evaluation matters
    • Choosing the right evaluation metric
    • Saving and loading models (pickle)
    • Building simple prediction workflows
    • Introduction to deployment concepts
12. Final Capstone Project
    • End-to-end machine learning project
    • Data preparation → modelling → evaluation → deployment
    • Real-world business dataset

Course Dates, Prices & Enrolment

Delivery Method	Dates & Times	Hours	Price	Enrolment
Online Training using Zoom	14 Mar 2026 - 09 May 2026 4 Saturdays 09:30 AM - 12:30 PM BT	12-hour over 4-day	£360 £420	Full
Online Training using Zoom	23 May 2026 - 06 Jun 2026 3 Saturdays 03:00 PM - 07:00 PM BT	12-hour over 3-day	£420	Enrol Now
Classroom Training	15 Jun 2026 - 19 Jun 2026 Mon, Wed & Fri 10:00 AM - 02:00 PM BT	12-hour over 3-day	£420	Enrol Now
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Online Training using Zoom	06 Jul 2026 - 17 Jul 2026 Mon, Wed & Fri (2 wks) 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM BT	12-hour over 6-day	£360 £420	Enrol Now
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Online Training using Zoom	21 Sep 2026 - 22 Sep 2026 Monday to Tuesday 10:00 AM - 04:00 PM BT	12-hour over 2-day	£420	Enrol Now

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