AI and Data Scientist

Vectors, matrices and dot products - the notation every model description is written in.

Derivatives and gradients as 'which way is downhill' - the idea behind all training.

Random variables, distributions, conditional probability and Bayes - the language of uncertainty.

Functions, comprehensions, error handling and environments - clean code before clever models.

Arrays, broadcasting and vectorised thinking - the substrate every ML library builds on.

Loading, cleaning, joining and reshaping real datasets - where data scientists spend most hours.

Notebooks for exploration, scripts for pipelines, seeds and environments for results others can rerun.

Missing values, duplicates, outliers and type fixes - with the judgement calls documented.

Distributions, relationships and anomalies via plots and groupbys - the stage that decides whether modelling is even warranted.

matplotlib and seaborn fluency - plots that expose bad data before it fools your model.

Joins, aggregation and window functions - most industry data still lives behind a SQL interface.

Sampling distributions, standard errors and confidence intervals - what your point estimate is hiding.

Nulls, p-values, power and multiple-comparison traps; why p-hacking ruins careers.

Randomisation, metrics and guardrails - designing A/B tests whose answers you can trust.

Linear and regularised regression: coefficients, residuals and interpretation you can defend.

Logistic regression, decision trees, random forests, KNN and Naive Bayes - the standard cast and when each shines.

XGBoost/LightGBM - the tabular-data workhorses that win competitions and quietly run industry.

k-means, hierarchical clustering and PCA - structure-finding when there are no labels.

Train/test discipline, cross-validation and the leakage patterns behind most 'amazing' models.

Precision/recall, ROC-AUC, calibration and cost-sensitive choices - the metric the business cares about, not the default.

Encoding, scaling, interactions and domain features - better features beat fancier models.

Layers, activations, loss and backprop intuition - training as gradient descent on purpose.

Tensors, autograd, DataLoaders and the training loop - the research-to-production standard.

Convolutions for images, recurrence for sequences - the classic architectures and the intuitions that survive them.

Overfitting, regularisation, learning-rate schedules and transfer learning - the knobs that make models actually converge.

Self-attention, positional encoding and pretraining - what changed in 2017 and why it took over every modality.

Loading pretrained models, pipelines and fine-tuning on your own data.

Embeddings, RAG and prompt-based classification - combining foundation models with your own data products.

Experiment tracking, model registries and monitoring drift - models as living software, not one-off notebooks.

Two deep projects with written conclusions beat ten Kaggle notebooks; publish code and findings.

Kaggle competitions and study groups - feedback loops that compound faster than solo study.

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