Block A - Business Understanding

Each of the 8 weeks has a fixed structure : on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday you work individually on the development of basic skills, which are needed to execute the DataLab assignments. Kindly follow the table of content below, this will guide you through what is expected of you on a daily basis.

Project Timeline :

Week 1-2: Digital Transformation & Artificial Intelligence

Week 3-5: Data Science

Week 6-8: Programming in Python

Week 1 : Digital Transformation & Artificial Intelligence

Monday

• Foundations of AI (1): Philosophy, and history of AI
• Turing Test & Chatbots (1): Article

Tuesday

• AI in Science Fiction (1): Minority Report & Outline

Wednesday

• Scientific writing (1): The structure of a paragraph and rules of writing; Bias-free language

Thursday

• Foundations of AI (2): Symbolic/non-symbolic AI & Intelligent agents

Friday

• Turing Test & Chatbots (2): Discussion & Turing Test

Week 2 : Digital Transformation & Artificial Intelligence

Monday

• AI for Business (1): Introduction into application of AI in businesses & Risks and benefits of AI

Tuesday

• AI in Science Fiction (3): Quizzes on Scientific writing. Presentations on the first draft of the report

Wednesday

• Scientific writing (2): Citation. Mechanics of style of effective writing

Thursday

• AI for Business (2): Application of AI by businesses

Friday

• AI in Science Fiction (4): Quiz on Scientific writing. Q&A session on the report.

Week 3 : Data Science

Monday

• Quantifying our world into data
• Intro to R

Tuesday

• Datalab 00 Overview: SGD Indicators

Wednesday

• Intro to variables

Thursday

• Descriptive Analyses

Friday

• Datalab 01: Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)

Week 4 : Data Science

Monday

• Introduction to Probability 1

Tuesday

• Datalab 02: Findings

Wednesday

• Introduction to Probability 2

Thursday

• Analysing Relationships between Variables

Friday

• Datalab 03 Discussion

Week 5 : Data Science

Monday

• Reporting & visualisation - Overview

Tuesday

• Datalab 04 Overview: Conclusion & References

Wednesday

• Explanatory Vs Predictive Modelling

Thursday

• Block A recap

Friday

• Datalab 05 Overview: Poster Presentation Day

Week 6 : Programming in Python

Monday

• Programming: A Primer
• Setting up your development environment
• Python foundation

Tuesday

• Data Lab: Python foundation

Wednesday

• Python data types & data structures

Thursday

• Python: Pandas
• Introduction to Python NumPy

Friday

• Data Lab: Python Pandas & NumPy

Week 7 : Programming in Python

Monday

• Image Processing in Python

Tuesday

• Data Lab: Image Steganography

Wednesday

• Advanced Numpy: Broadcasting & Vectorizing

Thursday

• Python:Data visualization

Friday

• Data Lab: Image Steganography

Week 8 : Programming in Python

Monday

• Python: Coding standards and reproducible data science

Tuesday

• Data Lab: Image Steganography

Wednesday

• Python: Recap of key concepts

Thursday

• Python (web) Application development

Friday

• Data Lab: Image Steganography