Nirantar: Continuing Education Programmes (CEP) Admissions

EXECUTIVE POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN ANALYTICS (EPGDA)

Location: Mumbai

School: School of Management and Labour Studies

Intake: 30

Eligibility

Eligibility

• For applying this Programme applicants should have completed their Bachelor’s Degree of minimum of 3 years duration or its equivalent (under the 10+2+3 or 10+2+4 or 10+2+2+1 year bridge course pattern of study or any other pattern fulfilling the mandatory requirements of 15 years formal education) from a recognised university, in any discipline.
• Having at least 2 years of work experience after graduation as on 10th December, 2019.

Description

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IMPORTANT DATES

Introduction

The convergence of information and communication technologies, deep learning and artificial intelligence is an exciting opportunity to organise complex systems and enhance our knowledge with new variants such as big data analytics and data science. Along with higher precision it also generates career opportunities in the labour market. Analytics, as a branch is not novel. We have spent considerable time and resources in designing, tabulating, presenting, drawing inferences, and predicting. The newer world, an information centric one, however, demands tools for handling bigger data sets that often cannot be handled by conventional statistical and econometric techniques such as regression.

 
Big data analytics differs from the conventional approach on three fronts;

• Volume of data that it can manage
• Higher number of potential predictors to unravel
• Complex non-linear patterns.

Multi-lateral institutions like European Commission (EC) predicts a surge in Big Data/Data Science/Analytics professions in United Kingdom. As a pioneer in Information Technology, India is set to become an important node in the Big Data/ Data Science/Analytics global network. Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), a public funded deemed university, offers an inclusive learning opportunity in Analytics. Labour Market Research Facility (LMRF) at TISS shall be anchoring the programme.

 
Executive Post Graduate Diploma in Analytics (EPGDA): Programme Design

Objectives of EPGDA

• Creating talent in emerging contours of data sciences, big data, and analytics;
• Stressing the importance of applying analytics in corporate inteligance ,public policy analytics and social big data .
• Encouraging creativity and innovation in the field
• Building capacity among the participants to envisage and manage independent projects

Key features of the programme

• 1 year part time professional programme of instruction and training.
•  Modular schedule that encourages students to pursue high quality education without
  comprising on professional commitment.
• Facilitates upward mobility of working professionals or their transit to a new occupational profile.
•  Helps working professionals who wish to move upward or transit to a new occupational profile.
•  Perfect blend of theory and practice imparted by faculty and practitioners from reputed companies to contribute.
•  Innovative workshops that enhance learning and offer networking opportunities.
• Maximising the productivity over weekend to gain knowledge and learn the best practices of data analytics.

Distribution of Credit Hours:

Modules and Credits

The programme is of 1year duration with 690 hours of learning that is equivalent to 46 credits (Table 1). EPGDA is spread across 2 semester : Foundations, Technology and Applications, and Project Management.

Table 1: EPGDA Modules and Credits

Semesterwise Courses:

LEARNING OUTCOMES FROM FOUNDATION COURSES:

Participants will be exposed to handling large social media data and large socio-economic databases such as National Sample Survey, National Family Health Survey, India Human Development Survey Data, Annual Survey of Industries, Economic Census, Census and longitudinal corporate databases. Quite important, in order to learn the basics of predictive analytics, participants will be exposed to probability and inferential processes and multivariate techniques. By the end of this module, participants will have learnt how to handle the data in terms of design, structure, presentation, inferences, and prediction.

SKILL DEVELOPMENT FROM TECHNOLOGY AND APPLICATIONS BASED COURSES :

Participants will learn technologies like R software, Python, Hadoop, Relational Databases, SPSS and GIS. Participants will get opportunity to innovate creative data/technology integration processes.

PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE FROM PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND DESERTATION :

Participants will learn behavioural, financial, and technical nuances of project management in terms of people skill, scheduling, documentation, presentation, and so on. Participants will work on analytics projects in diverse domains such as marketing, human resources, finance, strategy, labour market, livelihood, health, poverty, environment, education, and social media.

Pedagogy and Evaluation

The programme will use an interactive and integrative pedagogy, consisting of lectures, live projects, practicum, seminar, and case studies. TISS evaluation standards will be applicable to EPGDA.

Fee Structure:

CLASS TIMINGS

Saturdays : 2:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Sundays : 9:00 am to 4:00 pm

The classes will be held at the Institute

premises (Mumbai Campus) every weekend

SUPPORT

Candidates facing technical issues are requested to write an email to pgadmission@tiss.edu /analyticstiss@gmail.com with an appropriate subject and description of the problem. Alternatively the candidate can call TISS Helpline 022-25525252 for general enquiries or for registering technical issues faced while filling the online application form.

SELECTION PROCEDURE

 
Those satisfying the eligibility requirement will be called for the Personal Interview by the Selection Committee. The list of selected candidates will be notified on the Institute Website (http://www.tiss.edu). The Institute will not take responsibility for informing the selected candidates by post.