P O S T G R A D U AT E P R O G R A M I N

DATA SCIENCE
& BUSINESS
ANALYTICS
( F o r m e r l y P G P - B A B I )

Now Featuring ChatGPT and Generative AI Modules

CLASSROOM LOCATIONS: BANGALORE, CHENNAI & GURGAON

200+ SUCCESSFUL
10 YEARS OF
EXCELLENCE BATCHES
 A relentless industry focus - that’s
how the PGP-DSBA has been able
to empower thousands of career
transitions. All parts of the program
experience are designed to make
learners job-ready. But here’s the
challenge - the industry keeps
evolving all the time.

Only high-quality learning has the

power to transform lives, so we
have high standards for our
programs.

With inputs from industry

ABOUT professionals, top Data Science

THE PROGRAM academicians, and recently

graduated alums, PGP-DSBA is
your best bet for a rewarding
Data Science career.

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PROGRAM BENEFITS
Industry
Corporate Relevant
Partners Curriculum
The program is designed, delivered The curriculum combines academic
and endorsed by leading analytical, elegance and business relevance to
technology and consulting organizatons. facilitate participants in learning
Our corporate partners are involved the basics of management, Data
in curriculum design, facilitating projects, Science techniques and
industry lectures and also suggesting applications for data-based
pedagogical improvements. decision making.

Flexible Hands-On
Learning Exposure
The PGP-DSBA program provides An integral part of the learning
utmost learning flexibility. Learn while experience is the use of Data Science
you earn with weekend classroom and Analytics tools wherein the
sessions scheduled over one weekend candidates get hands-on exposure
every month. We accommodate transfer to Python, SQL, Tableau, R (Online),
cases and sabbaticals and provide the NUMPY , Pandas, Matplotlib, Scipy,
option to catch up even when you Seaborn, Statsmodels.
have missed classes.

Industry Constantly
Renowned Updated According
Certificates to Industry Trends
Earn a post-graduate certificate from Get the most up-to-date learning
Great Lakes Executive Learning, the experience that reflects the changing
executive learning arm of Great Lakes industry landscape. The curriculum now
(A Top 10 B-School in India). features modules on ChatGPT and
Generative AI.

10 YEARS OF DELIVERING EXCELLENCE

3.48 99% 4.8

out of 4 Overall Sessions Rated 4 out of 5 Average
Program Rating and above out of 5 Session Rating
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PROGRAM PEDAGOGY

Immersive Classroom Learning

The program is delivered in a weekend classroom
format for 6 months (one weekend each month)
followed by 6 months of online learning with
personalised mentoring. This is assisted by online
learning materials and webinars.

Online-Learning Management System

All candidates have access to the online LMS that
hosts content (lecture recordings, discussion forums,
assignments, reading material) and live webinars to
enable the candidates to continue their learning during
campus. The LMS provides an innovative learning
environment that encourages collaborative approach
between the candidates thus paving the way for
maximizing learning effectiveness.

Capstone Project
Candidates will be working on an application-oriented
capstone project in the field of Machine Learning.
These will be research-based projects. It requires a
learner to act in a team and showcase their skills that
they have acquired in the program. It will be mentored
and evaluated by faculty from the Great Lakes Insti-
tute of Management or industry experts.

Industry Perspective Lectures

This is an important component of the program that
complements and substantiates the learning with an
applied orientation. The participants get the
opportunity to listen to eminent speakers from leading
Data Science & Analytics companies and assimilate the
best practices discussed by them in their lectures.

Experiential Learning
This program is designed to transform candidates to
business-ready Data Science and Analytics
professionals through hands-on experiential learning of
relevant tools. This is achieved through hands-on labs,
practice exercises, hackathons, quizzes and
assignments on software packages such as R, Tableau,
SAS (online) and Python.

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PROGRAM CURRICULUM
MODULE 1 MODULE 7
Python for Data Science Capstone
• Basics of Python
MODULE 8
• Numpy
• Pandas Introduction to SQL

• Data Visualization (Matplotlib, Seaborn) • Introduction to DBMS

• Exploratory Data Analysis • ER Diagram

• Key Constraints
MODULE 2 • Normalization
Statistical Methods of Decision Making • Filtering and Grouping
• Introduction to Statistics • Logical Operators
• Descriptive Statistics • Arithmatic Operators
• Probability and Probability Distributions • Aggregate Functions
(Binomial, Normal) • Built-in Functions (String, Numeric, Date)
• Framing an Analytics Problem • Sorting and Casting
• Joins
MODULE 3
• Subqueries
Advanced Statistics
• Set Operations
• Hypothesis Testing
• Analysis of Variance MODULE 9
Time Series Forecasting
MODULE 4
• Introduction to Time Series
Data Mining
• Exploratory Data Analysis on Time Series data
• Unsupervised Learning
• Forecasting Methods
• Principal Component Analysis
• Naive Forecasting Methods
• Hierarchical Clustering
• Autoregressive Model (AR)
• K-Means Clustering
• Autoregressive Integrated Moving
MODULE 5 Average (ARIMA)
Predictive Modeling • Seasonal Auto-Regressive Integrated Moving
• Supervised Learning Average (SARIMA)
• Linear Regression • Seasonal Auto-Regressive Integrated Moving
• Logistic Regression Average with eXogenous Factors (SARIMAX)
• Decision Trees MODULE 10
Data Visualization using Tableau
MODULE 6
• Introduction about Visualization & Tableau
Machine Learning
• Dimension & Measures
• K Nearest Neighbour
• Calculated Fields, Filters, Charts, Parameters,
• Naive Bayes
Simple Dashboards, Storyboard, Special Charts
• SMOTE
• Advance Dashboarding Techniques
• Cross Validation
• Custom Maps
• Random Forest
• Bias Variance trade off
• Ensemble Techniques Bagging and Boosting
• Text Mining & Sentiment Analysis

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PROGRAM CURRICULUM
MODULE 11 SELF-PACED MODULES
Marketing and Retail Analytics
• Introduction to Marketing and Retail Module
Terminologies • Introduction to R
• Introduction to KNIME • Marketing and CRM
• RFM Analysis • Business Finance
• Market Mix Modelling • Optimization Techniques
• Linear Regression (using KNIME) • Getting started with Git
• Logistic regression (using KNIME) • Introduction to Model Deployment
• Customer Churn • Web and Social Media Analytics
• Customer Segmentation • Supply Chain and Logistics Analytics
• Market Basket Analysis

MODULE 12
FRA
• Credit Risk
• Market Risk

TOOLS & MORE

statsmodels

CAPSTONE PROJECT

EXPERIENTIAL HACKATHONS
LEARNING
CASE STUDIES

ASSIGNMENTS
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CAPSTONE PROJECTS

Retail E-commerce
Actionable insights for improving Customer engagement and brand
sales of a consumer durables retailer perception of Indian e-commerce:
using POS data analytics A social media approach
Techniques used: Market Basket Analysis, Techniques used: Text Mining, K-Means
RFM (Recency-Frequency- Monetary) Clustering, Regression
Analysis, Time Series Forecasting Trees, XGBoost, Neural Network

Web & Social Media Banking

Tapping social media exchanges on Developing best prediction model of
Twitter - A case study of the 2015 credit default for a retail bank
Chennai floods
Techniques used: Linear Discriminant
Techniques used: Topic Modeling using 9 Analysis, Logistic Regression, Neural
Latent Dirichlet Allocation. K-Means & Network, Boosting, Random Forest, CART
Hierarchical Clustering

Supply Chain Healthcare

Developing a demand forecasting Prediction of user’s mood using
model for optimizing supply chain smartphone data
Techniques used: Text Mining, K-Means Techniques used: Logistic Regression,
Clustering, Regression Trees, XGBoost, Random Tree, ADA Boost, Random Forest,
Neural Network KSVM

Retail Insurance
Market basket analysis for consumer Personal insurance digital assistant
durables
Techniques used: NLP (Natural Language
Techniques used: Market Basket Analysis, Processing), Vector Space Model, Latent
Brand Loyalty Analysis Semantic Analysis

Entrepreneurship/ Finance & Accounts

Startups Vendor invoicing grief project

Startup insights through data Techniques used: Conditional Inference

analysis Tree, Logistic Regression, CART and
Random Forest
Techniques used: Univariate and Bivariate
Analysis, Multinomial Logistic Regression,
Random Forest

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FACULTY

PROF. ABHINANDA SARKAR

Consultant Data Scientist - Compegence, MR. DEEPESH SINGH
B.Stat, M.Stat - Indian Statistical Institute, Data Scientist
Ph.D in Statistics - Stanford University

MR. PRASHANT KOPARKAR

PROF. MUKESH RAO
Data Science and Machine
Faculty - Machine Learning,
Learning Consultant,
Great Learning
Great Learning

DR. PAVANKUMAR GURZADA

PROF. GURUMOORTHY PATTABIRAMAN
Faculty for Business and AI Programs,
Faculty - Data Science &
Great Learning
Machine Learning
Ph.D - IIM Lucknow

DR. D NARAYANA
MR. ANIRUDDHA KALBANDE
Faculty - AI & Machine Learning,
Founder, Fireblaze Technologies
Great Learning

MR. RAGHAVSHYAM RAMAMURTHY

MR. SAYAN DEY
Co-founder, Wilson Consulting Pvt. Ltd.
Independent Consultant - AI and
MBA - Whitman School of Management,
Machine Learning
Syracuse University

MR. RAJIV KUMAR

Ex - DPE, Cognitive Automation - IBM

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STUDENTS SPEAK

“The faculty were absolutely fantastic throughout the length of the course
period and were always ready to reply to my questions with detailed answers
and it helped me further my understanding of the course work.”
Arjun JS,
Design Trainee Engineer

“I had an amazing experience in learning advanced statistics concepts using

Python including probability and normal distributions. Thanks to Great Learning
for an excellent experience.”

Anand Mohan,
Software Engineering Team Lead

“The program has been tailored for students from all backgrounds. Special
assistance is provided to students with no prior coding experience to make the
learning journey easier.”

Dipin Sharma,
Operations Manager

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FROM US

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CAREER SUPPORT

E-PORTFOLIO
An e-portfolio is a snapshot of all the projects done and skills acquired during
the program that is shareable across social media channels. This will help you
establish your expertise to potential recruiters.

RESUME BUILDING AND INTERVIEW PREPARATION

Build your resume to highlight your skills and your previous professional experience.
Also, learn how to crack interviews with interview preparation sessions.

CAREER GUIDANCE
Get access to mentorship from industry experts and benefit from their
guidance on how to build a rewarding career.

JOB BOARD
The program provides candidates access to a Job Board with job
opportunities shared by 2600+ organisations. Gain an average salary
hike of 50% like many other learners.

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ADMISSION DETAILS

FEE DETAILS
₹ 3,50,000 + GST

CLASSROOM LOCATIONS
Bangalore, Chennai & Gurgaon

12-month program
8 real-world graded projects and 16+ real-world case studies
2-month capstone project guided by an industry expert
Certificate from Great Lakes Executive Learning, Chennai
Dedicated career support through interview preparation and resume building sessions
Access to GL Confluence: Industry and peer networking events
Access to GL Excelerate: Curated job portal with opportunities shared
by 2600+ companies

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PROGRAM PARTNERS

Great Learning is a leading global ed-tech company for professional and

higher education. It offers comprehensive, industry-relevant programs
across various cutting-edge Technology, Data, and Business domains.
Great Learning's programs are developed in collaboration with the world's
foremost academic institutions such as Stanford Executive Education, MIT
Professional Education,The University of Texas at Austin, Northwestern
School of Professional Studies, National University of Singapore, Deakin
University, IIT Madras, IIT Bombay, IIT Roorkee, IIIT-Delhi, Great Lakes
Institute of Management, and more. They are constantly reimagined and
revamped to address the dynamic needs of the industry. Great Learning is
the only ed-tech company to provide these programs in a blended mode,
classroom mode, and purely online mode, relyin on its vast network of
expert mentors and highly qualified faculty to deliver an unmatched
learning experience for learners in India and the world over. Great Learning
is on a mission to enable transformative learning and career success in the
digital economy for professionals and students across the globe and till
date, we have impacted over 7.4 million learners from over 170+ countries.

Great Lakes Executive Learning is the executive learning arm of Great

Lakes Institute of Management. Great Lakes is India’s leading business
school with campuses in Chennai and Gurgaon. Led by exceptional
faculty and steered by an outstanding advisory council, Great
Lakes is ranked amongst India’s top 10 business schools and is ranked
as the best in the country when it comes to learning Data Science and
Analytics. Learning Data Science from Great Lakes ensures you get
the industry credibility and acceptance as you look to build your
career.

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