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Microsoft-AI-Classroom-Series





About the Program

  • Microsoft AI Classroom series is an initiative by Microsoft in association with NASSCOM FutureSkills® and supported by GitHub to train 1M students over 12 months.
  • The AI Classroom series is divided into three (3) easy to consume modules of 2.5 hours each; and includes live demos, hands-on experiments, and post session assignments to enable students to check their knowledge.
  • Each module will be introduced by leading data scientists and AI influencers; followed by 2 hours of learning session and 30 minutes of live Q&A with subject matter experts.
  • Two weeks of online support at no cost. Post the workshop series, students have access to online experts to address queries and to prepare for industry recognized AI certifications.
  • This program is open to students enrolled in Indian universities and are residents of India.

Assessment & Certification

  • Post the workshop completion, each student will receive an assessment link for knowledge check and to collect the participation certificate
  • The assessment is designed as multiple-choice questions. You have 20 minutes to answer 30 questions
  • You will get 3 attempts to clear this assessment
  • The assessment link will be live between September 28 to October 10, 2020
  • You have to score 80% or more to pass and download your “Microsoft AI workshop | September 2020” participation certificate
  • The certificate will be a joint certificate offered by Microsoft and NASSCOM FutureSkills®
  • Share your certificate on social media and tag #AlwaysLearning. Be a proud member of the AI Skilled community

Pre-requisites

If you need support to activate any of the following resources, please write in to StudentQ@microsoft.com To make the most of your learning sessions and gain practical knowledge via lab exercise, please activate the following pre-requisites:

  1. Environment Setup (VS Code Jupyter Notebooks)

    • Visit https://code.visualstudio.com/download and download VS Code as per your machine configuration and then install Python 3. Follow this link for installation https://www.python.org/downloads/
    • Next, open VS Code Editor and install Python, Jupyter, IntelliCode extension and restart it.
    • Go to extension section (left side menu) and search for these extensions. Now to create a new Jupyter Notebook you need to press CTRL + Shift + P and run this command Python: Create Blank New Jupyter Notebook. Once you do this a Jupyter notebook will get created automatically.

  2. Azure Student Subscription

  3. Azure ML Studio Classic Subscription

  4. GitHub Account

    • Click here to login into your account https://github.com/login
    • To create a new account, visit https://github.com/. Click on Sign Up and follow the steps.
    • You will receive an email from GitHub. Verify Email Address to activate your account

  5. GitHub Student Developer Pack

Module 1 : Data Science Basics and Introduction to Microsoft AI Platform


Date : Sept 24 2020
Time slot : 08:00 PM - 10:30 PM | (GMT+05:30) Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi

Lecture 1 : Tips for being a better Data Scienctist

Speaker : Ganes Kesari | Co-founder & Cheif Decision Scientist, Gramener | LinkedIn

  • Tip 1: Sharpen your ability to handle data.
  • Tip 2: Techniques are more important than the tools.
  • Tip 3: Master the application of techniques.
  • Tip 4: Learn secondary skills to stand out from the crowd.

Lecture 2 : Data Science Basics and Introduction to Microsoft AI Platform

Speaker : Bhavesh Goswami | Founder & CEO, CloudThat | LinkedIn

  • Data Science Life Cycle
  • Data Nomenclature
  • Types of Algorithms
    • Supervised
    • Unsupervised
    • Semi-supervised
  • Algorithms
    • Regression (Supervised)
    • Clustering (Unsupervised)
      • K-means
    • Classification (Supervised)
      • Decision Tree
    • Neural Network (Mostly Supervised)
      • Artificial Neural Network
  • Responsible AI

Before going into module 1, read this for better understanding.
You can access module 1 Lecture notes here.

Module 2 : Data Science Basics and Introduction to Microsoft AI Platform


Date : Sept 25 2020
Time slot : 02:00 PM - 04:30 PM | (GMT+05:30) Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi


Speaker : Sandeep Alur | Director Microsoft Technology Center | LinkedIn

  • Intro to the Azure AI/ML platform.
  • Intro to Azure Machine Learning Service.
  • No-code or low-code development environment.
  • Automated ML
  • Visual Designer

Before going into module 2, read this for better understanding.
You can access module 2 Lecture notes here.