Machine Learning

Certificate Program

7 months online | 7 projects | Personalised Mentorship

 The 2020 global estimate calls for
Job postings 2.7 million job postings
for Machine for Data Science and Machine Learning roles
Learning

Around
THE MACHINE 50% of Data Scientists and Machine
LEARNING SECTOR Learning engineers have a Master’s degree
IN INDIA IS
GROWING FAST
The Machine Learning sector
in India will grow from
$2 billion to $16 billion $2 $16
by 2025
billion billion
2018 2025

5,00,000
projected job openings in
Data Science and Machine Learning

India to become
one of the top 3 markets
for Machine Learning by 2020

*Sources: ET, NASSCOM, PWC, Kaggle

 8 5000+ 300+
top ranked programs students industry
experts

CREDENTIALS

3 million+ 25+
hours of learning India's best Data
delivered Science &
Machine Learning
faculty
 Great Learning brings to you India’s 1st mentorship driven online Machine Learning program.
You now have the opportunity to learn from the best & the most sought after faculty in the
industry.
Here’s how mentored learning works:

1 Personalised mentorship: The most effective way to learning online

HOW DOES
MENTORSHIP Participants learn in small groups of 5 & every group is assigned a Machine Learning mentor.

WORK? Every participant gets access to personalised mentorship by engaging through weekend online
sessions with one of our 100+ distinguished Machine Learning and Data Science mentors.

2 The best of industry and academia

Participants learn from digital content created by some of India’s top rated Machine Learning
faculty. On weekends, participants are led by their mentors as they work on data sets, projects
and problem walk-throughs in Machine Learning & Data Science.

3 Career coaching helps you connect the dots

Mentors inspire and guide participants at each step of their learning. Our mentors go beyond
concept walkthroughs, doubt clearing and projects to help participants achieve their learning
goals and also support them in their career transition in Machine Learning & Data Science.
Personalized Development Opportunity
Dedicated mentors help address individual learning
needs and help students to develop skills & expertise.

Peer Learning WHY

Mentors ensure there is consistent engagement
between the students.
MENTORED
LEARNING IS THE
Goal Achievement BEST WAY TO
By linking students to a mentor from their field of study, LEARN ONLINE
students can get a better understanding of possible
career paths from industry professionals.

Networking
This links students to experienced professionals 90%+
completion rate
from the industry and helps them build relationships
& seek job opportunities.

Being Industry ready Rated 4.6/5

by 95% participants
Right guidance from mentors helps students learn
about best industry practices and become industry
ready.
 The industry mentors assigned during the program were
excellent. Our mentors guided us a lot during discussions
about the projects.

SURBHI AGGARWAL

STUDENTS Not only were the industry mentors great, my fellow students came from

SPEAK ON different industries and it enriched my overall experience of learning as

I was exposed to different perspectives and some of the best minds in
MENTORSHIP the industry.
EDWIN INBARAJ

The guidance received throughout the projects from faculty

and my mentor continues to help me in my current role even
today.

HIMANSHU MANGHNANI
Manaspreet Kaur,

Great Learning helped me immensely in building business

acumen and honing my skills. All the interactions with faculty
and industry mentors helped me understand the business
context to a given problem.
AKSHAY ARORA
 JOY MUSTAFI KALYANARAMAN RAMANI SAURABH KHANNA
OUR
MENTORS

JATINDER BEDI KRISHNA MOHAN CHINAR DESAI

Leading Investment Bank

ERON
 OUR
DR. SATISH RAGHAVENDRAN SHEKHAR MANISH
MENTORS

SNEHAMOY ADITHYA MOHAN MUTHU

MUKHERJEE RAMANUJAM

UJJYAINI MITRA
 HANDS-ON PROJECTS
Practical assignments, case PROGRAM
studies and instructor-led STRUCTURE
practice sessions on data sets
WEEKEND MENTORSHIP
SESSIONS
O3 48 hours of personalised
mentorship from Machine
Learning & Data Science
professionals working 130 hours
of online content
PROGRAM in leading companies and mentorship
STRUCTURE
O1
O2 7
hands-on projects

Personalised
mentorship
ONLINE CONTENT from Data Scientists
Best-in-class recorded
content from expert Career
faculty and industry assistance
mentors
 Personalized Learning Industry Exposure
• Interaction with mentor in a small group of 5 • Insights from industry leaders and experts
• Get personalized attention from an industry mentor • Exposure to thought leaders’ viewpoint

Hands-On Exposure Great Lakes Advantage

• 7 experiential learning projects in the program • Certification by Great Lakes
• Practical assignments and case studies • Award-winning world-class faculty
• Hands-on practice on data sets in an instructor-led • Ranked amongst India’s best Analytics schools
session

Distinguished Mentors Career Support

• A pool of experts from different domains • Career enhancement sessions with industry experts
• Practical knowledge and insights into real-world business • Insights on resume building and cracking interviews
problems • Access to Great Learning Job Board

The Machine Learning Certificate Program by Great Lakes is a 7-month comprehensive online program that
provides a structured learning framework to students for effective learning and application of Machine
Learning & Data Science. With personalized learning, this program enables students to acquire the relevant
PROGRAM skills to master the domain, and prepares them for the roles of Data Scientists, Machine Learning engineers,

BENEFITS Machine Learning architects, Technology Architects, Solution Engineers, Technology Consultants, Chief
Technology Officers etc.

The Program is a unique opportunity for participants to pick up the skills needed to build their careers and
excel their interviews. The content has been specifically designed by expert faculty and practitioners to
address current industry needs in Machine Learning and Data Science.

FOUNDATIONS
STATISTICAL LEARNING
• Statistical analysis concepts
• Descriptive statistics
• Introduction to probability
and Bayes theorem
• Probability distributions
• Hypothesis testing & scores
• Experiential learning project
PYTHON FOR MACHINE LEARNING
• Python Overview
• Pandas for Pre-Processing and
Exploratory Data Analysis
• Numpy for Statistical Analysis
• Seaborn for Data Visualization
• Case Studies and careers
• Experiential Learning project
PROGRAM CURRICULUM
MACHINE LEARNING MODULE MACHINE LEARNING MODULE
SUPERVISED LEARNING ENSEMBLE TECHNIQUES
• Introduction to Machine Learning • Decision Trees
• Supervised Learning concepts • Introduction to Ensemble Learning
• Linear Regression • Different Ensemble Learning
• Logistic Regression Techniques
• K-NN Classification • Bagging
• Naïve Bayesian classifiers • Boosting
• SVM - Support Vector Machines • Random Forests
• Experiential Learning project • Stacking
• Experiential Learning project
UNSUPERVISED LEARNING • PCA (Principal Component Analysis) and
• Unsupervised Learning concepts its applications
• Clustering approaches
• K Means clustering
• Hierarchical clustering

MACHINE LEARNING MODULE
FEATURIZATION, MODEL
SELECTION & TUNING
• Text Analytics
• Feature extraction
• Model Defects & Evaluation Metrics
• Model selection and tuning
• Comparison of Machine
Learning models
• Experiential Learning project
PROGRAM CURRICULUM
MACHINE LEARNING MODULE TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES
RECOMMENDATION SYSTEMS
• Introduction to Recommendation • Python (Pandas, Numpy, Scipy,
Systems Matplotlib, Seaborn and Scikit-Learn)
• Types of Recommendation techniques • Mini Projects
• Collaborative Filtering • Machine Learning Lab sessions
• Content based Filtering
• Hybrid RS
• Case Study
• Performance measurement
• Experiential Learning project
GREAT LEARNING
ALUMNI WORK
IN LEADING
COMPANIES
 In my interview, the project played an The career enhancement industry

important role in getting sessions and blogs helped me crack

the interview. My learnings from the
CAREER me hired.
project were heavily tested during
SUCCESS the interview.

SWATHY KRISHNAN DEVINDER REHAN

500+
transitions in last
6 months
I was so impressed with the
Average salary hike of
program and the student quality
44% that I hired 2-3 students from my
among transitions program batch to work at
ValueLabs.

200+ KIRAN KUMAR JANGETI

job opportunities
posted in last
6 months
 Prof. Mukesh Rao has almost 3 decades of experience in the Analytics and Machine
Learning industry.

Prof. Rao has designed and implemented Machine Learning algorithms for abuse
FACULTY
detection, social media analysis and report generation using Mapreduce while
Mukesh Rao working at Sourceone. He has also worked at 4V Technologies where he has
conducted over a 100 training sessions in Data Science. Prior to this, Prof. Rao was
with Wipro for over 12 years where he was the Head of PM Academy.

Prof. Rao earned his PGDM from Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies and
also has a Bachelor’s Degree in Management, Finance and Economics from Delhi
University. Currently, he is full time faculty at Great Learning and delivers courses in
Machine Learning.
 Mr. Gurumoorthy is a techno-functional professional with over a decade's
experience in the IT & Analytics domains.

FACULTY An undergrad in Mathematics & a post grad in Actuarial Economics, he headed

the Global Analytics team in one of the largest shipping companies and currently
is the "Head of Industry Solutions" in the Analytics & Mobility spaces at a niche Gurumoorthy P
AR/VR/MR start-up in Chennai.

With his core competencies in Machine Learning & Data Science,

Mr. Gurumoorthy is one of the most sought after faculties in the field.
 The course fee for the 7 month program is INR 1.25 lakhs (+ GST), which includes:

Access to course content post

Tuition fee
completion (video recordings
and online content)

Required readings and 24x7 access to the online Learning

audio/video content Management System (LMS)
PROGRAM
FEES 48 hours of personalised mentorship
Technical program support to
assist you with programming
assignments and projects

Anytime access to discussion boards,

forums and knowledge banks

ELIGIBILITY SELECTION PROCES

• Applicants should have a Bachelor's degree
with a minimum of 50% aggregate marks or
equivalent
• Preference will be given to candidates with
Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics and
Economics backgrounds
• Interested candidates need to apply by filling up
an Online Application Form
• The admissions committee and faculty panel will
review all the applications and shortlist candidates
based on their profiles
• Offers will be made to selected applicants

*Admissions will be closed once the requisite number of candidates have been
admitted into the program
 WORK EXPERIENCE
The MLCP class consists of professionals with a wide range of work experience from 0 to 15+ years.
It also has some participants who are yet to start their careers.

18% 5 to 10 years
6% 10 to 15 years BATCH
31%
17% 15+ years PROFILE
0 to 2 years
28%
2 to 5 years

INDUSTRY-DIVERSITY
The class is composed of professionals from various roles and industries. While most
candidates are from the technology sector, BFSI, Consulting,
49%
and Manufacturing sectors also contribute significantly to the batch composition.

17%
13%
5% 5%
4% 4%
3%

Others Education Telecom Pharma Manufacturing Consulting/Analytics BFSI IT &

& Healthcare Technology
 Great Lakes is India's leading business school with campuses in
Chennai & Gurgaon. Led by exceptional faculty and steered by
an outstanding advisory council, Great Lakes is ranked among
India's top 10 business schools and is ranked as the best in the
country when it comes to learning Analytics. Learning Analytics
from Great Lakes ensures that you get the industry credibility
and acceptance as you build your career.
ABOUT US

Great Learning's mission is to make professionals proficient and

future-ready. Its programs always focus on the next frontier of
growth in industry and currently straddle across Analytics, Data
Science, Big Data, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence,
Deep Learning, Cloud Computing and more.

Great Learning uses technology, high-quality content and

industry collaboration to deliver an immersive learning
experience that helps candidates learn, apply and demonstrate
their competencies. All programs are offered in collaboration
with leading global universities and are taken by thousands of
professionals every year to secure and grow their careers.
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