Integrated Program In Business Analytics (IPBA)

Own Session
Module Mode Wk Date Day Time er Type Session Topic Tools
Kick off/ 04:00 PM to JLC walkthrough, Student Checklist, Schedule Walk-
Orientation Online 1 24 Dec 21 Fri 5:00 PM JA IL Session Through NA
10:00 AM - Get introduced to the world of Business Analytics and
Intro
Online 2 2 Jan 22 Sun 11:30 AM JA IL Session Data Science PPT
Inauguration with IIM Indore and JA
- Welcome Address and Introductions
- Course Content and Delivery
Inauguratio - Expectations for successful completion of the program
n In- JA + including assessments passing criteria
person* 3 7 Jan 22 Fri 6.00 PM IIM I Welcome - About placement Assistance PPT
In-
person* 3 8 Jan 22 Sat 8.30 AM IIM I Welcome Welcome address by Director/ Dean NA
Analytics In- Introduction to Analytics and CRISP DM
Intro person* 3 8 Jan 22 Sat 09:30 AM IIM I IL Session Data Collection and Biases PPT
In- R and R
R
person* 3 8 Jan 22 Sat 01:30 PM JA IL Session Intro to R Studio
Generating and Using Summary Statistics Excel/ R
Descriptive
In- Distributions and Histograms with Excel and R
Statistics
person* 3 9 Jan 22 Sun 09:30 AM IIM I IL Session Empirical Distributions Studio
R and R
Online 4 15 Jan 22 Sat 10:00 AM JA IL Session R Data Manipulation Studio
Practice R and R
Online 4 15 Jan 22 Sat 07:00AM
10:00 PM- JA Session Hands on practice session - late evening (1 hour optional) RStudio
and R
Online 5 16 Jan 22 Sun 12:30 PM JA CS Session Business Case Study - R data manipulation Studio
Fundamental probability concepts and Probability PPT+
Online 5 22 Jan 22 Sat 10:00 AM IIM I IL Session distributions (Discrete distributions) Excel
Continuous distributions, Normal distribution, Sampling PPT+
Online 6 23 Jan 22 Sun 10:00 AM IIM I IL Session distribution, CLT Excel
Practice
Online 6 23 Jan 22 Sun 07:00 PM JA Session Parameter
Hands on practice session
estimation - late evening
via confidence (1 hour
interval optional)
+ Business Excel
Case study (Descriptive Stats) PPT+
Online 6 29 Jan 22 Sat 10:00 AM IIM I CS Session Excel
Basics of hypothesis testing, 1-sample tests (mu, p), one- PPT+
Online 7 30 Jan 22 Sun 10:00 AM IIM I IL Session sided, two-sided, via CI, p-value Excel
2-sample (paired & independent) tests (means), Equality
of variance test
Nonparametric tests (sign test, WSRT, Mann-Whittney PPT+
Online 7 5 Feb 22 Sat 10:00 AM IIM I IL Session test), test for normality Excel
k-sample test for mean: ANOVA, Kruskal-Wallis test
Descriptive Chi-square tests for goodness of fit, independence, PPT+
and Online 8 6 Feb 22 Sun 10:30 AM IIM I IL Session homogeneity (Includes Live graded quiz) Excel
Inferential Practice
Stats Online 8 6 Feb 22 Sun 07:00 PM JA Session Hands on practice session - late evening (1 hour optional) Excel
Practice
Assignment Excel
(Non Practice Hypotheses Testing MCQ (Hosted
Online 8 6 Feb 22 Sun NA JA Graded) Case Study on JLC (Non Graded) on JLC)
Business Case study- Descriptive + Inferential Statistics PPT+
Online 8 12 Feb 22 Sat 10:00 AM JA CS Session (Includes Live graded quiz) Excel
QnA session on practice MCQ and case study - Restricted
QnA to only the questions posted on JLC forum/ Google
Online 9 13 Feb 22 Sun 10:00 AM JA Session Sheets Excel
JA + Open
Online 9 14 Feb 22 Mon 07:00 PM IIM I Office Open office Session 1 NA
NA 9 19 Feb 22 Sat NA NA No class No class- Break to prep for assignment NA

Graded
Online 10 20 Feb 22 Sun 10:00 AM NA Assignment Assignment Submission 1 - Statistics (MCQ) on JLC JLC
 SQL Servers as Data Sources
Online 10 26 Feb 22 Sat 10:00 AM IIM I IL Session
Data Normalization and Consequence MySQL
Basic SQL DML Queries
Online 11 27 Feb 22 Sun 10:00 AM IIM I IL Session SQL Joins MySQL
Practice
Assignment MySQL
(Non Practice SQL MCQ (Hosted
Online 11 27 Feb 22 Sun NA JA Graded) Case Study on JLC (non graded) on JLC)
Business Case study - SQL DML commands
SQL
Online 11 5 Mar 22 Sat 10:00 AM JA CS Session (Includes Live graded quiz) MySQL
Alumni/
Online 11 6 Mar 22 Sun TBD^ JA Guest Alumni connect/ Industry Guest lecture NA
QnA QnA session on practice MCQ and case study - restricted
Online 12 12 Mar 22 Sat 10:00 AM JA Session to only the questions posted on JLC forum/ google sheets MySQL
NA 12 13 Mar 22 Sun NA NA No class No class- Break to prep for assignment NA

Graded
Online 13 19 Mar 22 Sat 10:00 AM NA Assignment Assignment Submission 2 - SQL (MCQ) on JLC JLC
Data Exploration and Visualization in R + Data Sanity
Online 13 20 Mar 22 Sun 10:00 AM JA IL Session checks and treatment - Session 1 R
Data Exploration and Visualization in R + Data Sanity
R
Online 14 26 Mar 22 Sat 10:00 AM JA IL Session checks and treatment - Session 2 R
Practice
Online 14 26 Mar 22 Sat 10:00 AM JA Session Hands on practice session - late evening (1 hour optional) R
Kaggle
Kaggle and and
Github Online JA IL Session Using GitHub & Kaggle to build an analytics profile Github
14 27 Mar 22 Sun 10:00 AM
Linear Regression (Simple and MLR) - BLUE Estimators
Online 15 2 Apr 22 Sat 10:00 AM IIM I IL Session and Interpreting Model Results PPT + R
Linear Regression - Checking Model Assumptions and
Online 15 3 Apr 22 Sun 10:00 AM IIM I IL Session Improving Models (Model Diagnostics) PPT + R
Practice
Assignment Practice Data Manipulation + EDA + Viz + Linear
(Non Regression Case Study on Kaggle R (Hosted
Online 16 9 Apr 22 Sat NA JA Graded) (non graded private competition) on Kaggle)
Business Case Study - Regression Models (Multiple Linear
Regression)
Online 16 9 Apr 22 Sat 10:00 AM IIM I CS Session (Includes Live graded quiz) R
Logistic Regression - Logistic Cost Function and
Interpreting Model Results
Logistic Regression - Measuring Classification
NA 16 10 Apr 22 Sun 10:00 AM NA IL Session Performance - AUC, ROC, Confusion Matrix NA
JA + Open
Online 17 11 Apr 22 Mon 07:00 PM IIM I Office Open office session 2 NA
GLM -
Business Case Study - Regression Models (Logistics
Statistics
Regression)
Module
Online 17 16 Apr 22 Sat 10:00 AM IIM I IL Session (Includes Live graded quiz) R
Online 17 17 Apr 22 Sun NA NA No class No class- Break to prep for assignment NA
Assignment Submission 3 - Regression (Case study) on
Graded Kaggle (private competition) + JLC +
Online 18 23 Apr 22 Sat 10:00 AM NA Assignment Regression MCQ on JLC Kaggle
Online 18 24 Apr 22 Sun 10:00 AM IIM I IL Session Time Series Forecasting - Session 1 PPT + R
Online 19 30 Apr 22 Sat 10:00 AM IIM I IL Session Time Series Forecasting - Session 2 PPT + R
NA 19 1 May 22 Sun NA NA No class No class- Break to prep for assignment NA
Business Case study - Time Series Forecasting
Online 20 7 May 22 Sat 10:00 AM JA CS Session (Includes Live graded quiz) R
Practice
Assignment
(Non Practice Time Series Case Study on Kaggle (non graded R (Hosted
NA 20 7 May 22 Sat NA JA Graded) private competition) on Kaggle)
Assignment Submission 4 - Time Series (Case study) on
Graded Kaggle (private competition) + JLC +
Online 20 8 May 22 Sun 10:00 AM NA Assignment Time Series MCQ on JLC Kaggle
 Python
Online 21 14 May 22 Sat 10:00 AM JA IL Session Introduction to Python- Basic Data Structures (Jupyter
Python
Python
(Jupyter
Online 21 15 May 22 Sun 10:00 AM JA IL Session Python Basic Data Structures & Data Manipulation Notebook)
Major
BYOP Project BYOP - A session to guide how to source your own data
Online 22 21 May 22 Sat 10:00 AM JA (BYOP) and business problems PPT
Python
Python - Data Exploration - Sanity Checks (Jupyter
Online 22 22 May 22 Sun 10:00 AM JA IL Session Preparing Data Quality Reports Notebook)
Python- Data Preparation -Outliers and Missing Value Python
Treatments (Jupyter
Online 23 28 May 22 Sat 10:00 AM JA IL Session Variable Profiling Using Information Value Notebook)
Python- Data Preparation -Outliers and Missing Value Python
Treatments (Jupyter
Python Online 23 29 May 22 Sun 10:00 AM JA IL Session Variable Profiling Using Information Value Notebook)
Python
Practice (Jupyter
Online 23 29 May 22 Sun 07:00 PM JA Session Hands on practice session - late evening (1 hour optional) Notebook)
JA + Open
Online 24 30 May 22 Mon 07:00 PM IIM I Office Open office session 3 NA
Python
(Jupyter
Online 24 4 Jun 22 Sat 10:00 AM JA CS Session Business Case study (EDA) - Python Notebook)
Major
BYOP Project
Online 24 4 Jun 22 Sat NA JA (BYOP) BYOP interim check point Mail
Python
Online 24 5 Jun 22 Sun 10:00 AM JA IL Session Intro to Machine Learning (Jupyter
Alumni/
Online 24 5 Jun 22 Sun TBD^ JA Guest Alumni connect/ Industry Guest lecture NA

Tree Models - Regression Trees and Classification Trees Python

Feature Importance (Jupyter
Online 25 11 Jun 22 Sat 10:00 AM JA IL Session Purity Measures - GINI Notebook)
Python
Machine
Purity Measures - Entropy MSE (Jupyter
Learning
Online 25 12 Jun 22 Sun 10:00 AM JA IL Session Building and Pruning Trees Notebook)
Practice
Assignment Python NB
(Non Practice ML Case Study on Kaggle (non graded private (Hosted
Online 26 18 Jun 22 Sat NA JA Graded) competition) on Kaggle)
Python
(Jupyter
Online 26 18 Jun 22 Sat 10:00 AM JA IL Session Ensemble Methods - Bagged Ensembles Notebook)
Major
BYOP Project BYOP proposal submission deadline, following approvals
Online 26 19 Jun 22 Sun NA JA (BYOP) and mentor allocations Mail
Python
Online 26 19 Jun 22 Sun 10:00 AM JA IL Session Ensemble Methods - Random Forests (Jupyter
Python
(Jupyter
Online 27 25 Jun 22 Sat 10:00 AM JA IL Session Clustering - K Means and Hierarchical Models Notebook)
Python
Machine
Business Case study - Machine Learning algorithms (Jupyter
Learning
Online 27 26 Jun 22 Sun 10:00 AM JA CS Session (Includes Live graded quiz) Notebook)
Assignment Submission 5 -ML (Case study) on Kaggle
Graded (private competition) + JLC +
Online 28 2 Jul 22 Sat 10:00 AM NA Assignment ML MCQ on JLC Kaggle
Online 28 3 Jul 22 Sun 10:00 AM JA IL Session DS talk - connecting the dots (Sarita/ Industry expert) NA
Major
BYOP Project
Online 28 3 Jul 22 Sun NA JA (BYOP) BYOP kick off Mail
Placement Placement
Assisstance NA 28 3 Jul 22 Sun NA JA Assistance Placement Committee Formation - Mail Mail
 Text Handling - Reading Text Files at Scale Python
Using Regular Expressions to Clean Text (Jupyter
Online 29 9 Jul 22 Sat 10:00 AM JA IL Session Handling Text Encoding Issues Notebook)
Tokenization, stemming and lemmatization
POS Tagging Python
Parsing Grammatical Trees (Jupyter
Online 29 10 Jul 22 Sun 10:00 AM JA IL Session Named Entity Recognition Notebook)
Modeling - Text Representation, TFIDF, Count Vector Python
Cosine Similarity of Text Corpus (Jupyter
Text Mining Online 30 16 Jul 22 Sat 10:00 AM JA IL Session Using TFIDF features to build sentiment classifiers Notebook)
and Intro to Python
NLP (Jupyter
Online 30 17 Jul 22 Sun 10:00 AM JA IL Session Handling Image data Notebook)
Python
Business Case study - Text Mining (Jupyter
Online 31 23 Jul 22 Sat 10:00 AM JA CS Session (Includes Live graded quiz) Notebook)

Graded Assignment Submission 6 - Text Mining (Case study) on

Online 31 24 Jul 22 Sun 10:00 AM NA Assignment JLC JLC
JA + Open
Online 32 25 Jul 22 Mon 07:00 PM IIM I Office Open office session 4 NA
Tableau Online 32 30 Jul 22 Sat 10:00 AM JA IL Session Tableau for Data Visualization Tableau
Placement Placement
Assisstance Online 32 30 Jul 22 Sat TBD^ JA Assistance Placement Connect 1 - Kick Off Session NA

Generating Online 32 31 Jul 22 Sun 10:00 AM IIM I IL Session Models to Value PPT
Online 33 6 Aug 22 Sat 10:00 AM IIM I IL Session Pitfalls of Predictive Models in Business PPT
Business
Online 33 7 Aug 22 Sun 10:00 AM IIM I IL Session Storytelling with Data - 1 PPT
Value with
Online 34 13 Aug 22 Sat 10:00 AM IIM I IL Session Storytelling with Data - 2 PPT
Storytelling
Alumni/
and Insights
Online 34 14 Aug 22 Sun TBD^ JA Guest Alumni connect/ Industry Guest lecture NA
Placement Placement Placement Connect 2- Resume writing and interview tips
Assisstance Online 34 14 Aug 22 Sun 10:00 AM JA Assistance session NA
Online 35 20 Aug 22 Sat 10:00 AM IIM I IL Session Intro to Big Data Ecosystem - Hadoop and HDFS PPT
Online 35 21 Aug 22 Sun 10:00 AM IIM I IL Session Querying with Hive
Online 36 27 Aug 22 Sat 10:00 AM IIM I IL Session Intro to Spark and PySpark SQL
Big Data
Online 36 28 Aug 22 Sun 10:00 AM IIM I CS Session Business Case Study Data Engg
Business Case Study - ML with PySpark VM
Big Data and
Online 37 3 Sep 22 Sat 10:00 AM IIM I CS Session (Includes Live graded quiz)
ML with
NA 37 4 Sep 22 Sun NA NA No class No class - Break to prep for assignment NA
Spark
JA + Open
Online 38 5 Sep 22 Mon 07:00 PM IIM I Office Open office session 5 NA

Graded
Online 38 10 Sep 22 Sat 10:00 AM NA Assignment Assignment Submission 7 - Big Data (MCQ) on JLC JLC
NA 38 11 Sep 22 Sun NA NA No class No class - Prep for project work NA
NA 39 17 Sep 22 Sat NA NA No class No class - Prep for project work NA
BYOP Major
JA + Project
Online 39 18 Sep 22 Sun TBD^ IIM I (BYOP) Online BYOP Project presentations Online
NA 40 24 Sep 22 Sat NA NA No class No class - Break to prep for assignment NA
Placement Placement
Assisstance Online
In- 40 25 Sep 22 Sun TBD^ JAJA+ Convocatio
Assistance Placement connect 2 - status check NA
person* 41 8 Oct 22 Sat TBD^ IIM I n IIM I tour; Meetup with faculty and batchmates NA
Convocatio
In- JA + Convocatio
n
person* 41 8 Oct 22 Sat TBD^ IIM I n Landscape Survey of Analytics, ML and AI / Convocation NA
Notes:
- Please note that while every effort will be made not to change the dates/time in the schedule, Indian Institute of Management Indore and
Jigsaw Academy reserves the right to modify the schedule due to factors beyond our control. All changes will be informed to participants in a
timely manner.
- *Subjected to change based on how Covid-19 situation in the country improves (Govt. and IIM I discretion)
- ^ Could be merged with Case study session as well in some cases
- MCQ graded assignments on JLC will be 1 hour each
- Case Study (graded) on Kaggle will be 4 hours each