Start Enrolling for new 126 courses!!
Dear Students,
We are happy to announce that the next run of NPTEL online certification courses will start on January 23, 2017 and February 17,2017. This time around, we are offering 126 certification courses comprising of 10 hr, 20 hr and 30 hr courses across disciplines.
Enrollments for the courses are open now. Click on the link "All running courses" below to see all the courses to be offered in July.
For any queries contact nptel@iitm.ac.in
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NPTEL TEAM
Feedback for Introduction to Data Analytics
Dear student
We are glad that you have attended the NPTEL online certification course.
We hope you found the NPTEL Online course useful and have started using NPTEL extensively.
In this regard, we would like to have a feedback from you regarding our course and whether there are any improvements, you would like to suggest.
We are enclosing an online feedback form and would request you to spare some of your valuable time to input your observations. Your esteemed input will help us in serving you better.
The link to give your feedback is :
https://docs.google.com/a/nptel.iitm.ac.in/forms/d/145KWtswzX88t0mjdgMsFO0oZpVW00j8N7KadarYFC1M/edit?usp=sharing
We thank you for your valuable time and feedback.
Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL Team
Hall ticket for Sep 18/Sep 25th NPTEL Online Certification exams is now available for download.
Dear Candidate:
If you have registered for the Sep 18/Sep25th NPTEL Online certification exam, your Admit Card/ Hall ticket link is at :
https://www3.digialm.com:443//EForms/configuredHtml/885/5168/login.html
Please
login with your registered Google-enabled account email id (used to
access the course on the portal and used for registering for the exam)
and its password to access and download the hall ticket(s) for the Sep
18/Sep25th exams, from the link.
Note that you will be able to login here, only if you have a valid registration for exams on Sep 18/Sep25th 2016.
Please
download hall ticket, take a print out and along with a valid ID card,
carry it with you to the venue (The exam centre address is there in the
hall ticket). Read all instructions given in the admit card/ hall ticket
carefully and follow them.
Note1:- If you are writing 2 exams - 1 on Sep 18th and another on Sep 25th, please ensure that you have downloaded 2 hall tickets.
Note 2: In case of the following problems with the hall ticket:
a. Name is spelt incorrectly
b. Date of birth is wrong
c. Photo/signature is wrong or not available in the hall ticket
Please go to https://docs.google.com/a/nptel.iitm.ac.in/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScykR5qTP-jIuGB_umIF9RYOG3g2VNpdb-FUNPXB_m7bLKMsA/viewform?c=0&w=1 and fill the form with the details.
We
cannot change the hall ticket - you can carry the same to the exam with
a valid ID card and your college ID. We will pass on these details to
the exam partner so that they know your details will be incorrect on the
hall ticket.
NPTEL Team wishes you the very best for the certification exam.
For any other queries: please write to nptel@iitm.ac.in.
Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL team
Announcement on Certificate Fromat.
Dear student
Hope you are enjoying learning from the course.
To
obtain a certificate from the IITs/IISc, you have to register for the
exam by filling up the form, paying the exam fee and appear in person
for the exams to be conducted on 18 and 25 September 2016.
Register for the exam today at http://nptelonlinecourses.iitm.ac.in/
The final score = 25% assignment score + 75% final certification exam score
The final score will determine if you will/will not receive a certificate.
1. Final score < 40%: NO certificate
2. Final score between 40% -59%: Certificate of type "Successfully completing the course"
3. Final score between 60% -89%: Certificate with tag "Elite" printed at the top
4. Final score of 90% and above: Certificate with "Elite" tag and the gold medal printed on it.
The new formats are attached here for your reference:
Photos of Toppers in every course are published on the website http://nptel.ac.in/noc along with the name of the college/organization you belong to.
Click here to take a look at a sample page: http://nptel.ac.in/noc/IndividualCourse/noc15-hs14
Best of luck for the exams.
- NPTEL team
Extension of assignment 3 deadline
Dear Students,
The deadline for assignment 3 has been extended by 2 days.
Regards,
Priyatosh
Release of assignment 4
Dear Students,
Assignment 4 is now available on the course home page. Note that starting with this assignment, we will be having some programming related questions for which we will make use of the Weka software. We have released a short tutorial on Weka to get you familiar with the basics and the interface. Please go through the tutorial before attempting the programming questions. Note that while the tutorial uses an older version of Weka, we recommend that you download and use the latest version (3.8.0) of the software.
Regards,
Priyatosh
Release of week 4 content
Dear Students,
Week 4 lectures are now available on the course home page.
Regards,
Priyatosh
Regarding assignments 1 & 2
Dear Students,
As was pointed out in the forum, there was an error in the solution to question 7 in the first assignment. This has been fixed. The solutions have been updated and all assignments have been re-evaluated. Re-evaluation will have lead to an increase in scores for those who had selected the correct option and a decrease in scores for those who had selected the option which used n-1 in the calculation of standard deviation.
We have also released the solutions to assignment 2.
Regards,
Priyatosh
Assignment 2 deadline extended
Dear Students,
The deadline for assignment 2 has been extended by two days.
Regards,
Priyatosh
Release of solutions to assignment 1
Dear Students,
The solutions to assignment 1 have been released. You can access the solutions by the link given at the bottom of the assignment 1 page.
Assignment 3 will be released shortly.
Regards,
Priyatosh
Reminder 1 - Introduction to Data Analytics: REGISTER TODAY - CERTIFICATION EXAM FORM IS NOW OPEN !
Dear Student:
Here is the much-awaited announcement on
registering for the September 2016 certification exam. The registration
for the certification exam is only open to students who have enrolled in
the course.
Registration is open from 2nd AUGUST 2016 (Tuesday) until 22nd AUGUST 2016 5.00 PM (Monday).
The certification exam registration URL is : http://nptelonlinecourses.iitm.ac.in/
(If
you want to register for the exam for this course that started on July
18th, login here using the same email id used to enroll to the course)
Dates of exam: 18th September 2016 / 25 September 2016 (You can choose either date according to your convenience for writing the exam)
Exam Session time: 2 PM - 5 PM
Examination Cities: The
exam is to be conducted in several cities across India whose list is
available on the registration form. Click here to access the list of
exam cities: http://nptel.ac.in/noc/resources/List%20of%20examcities_September%202016.pdf
Registration fees: Rs 1000/-
(Students
belonging to the SC/ST category can avail a 50% fee waiver - please
select Yes for the SC/ST option and upload the correct certificate)
Mode of payment: Online payment - debit card/credit card/net banking or cash
Type of exam: Online (on the computer - MCQ/MSQ,Fill in the blanks)
The hall ticket will be available for download tentatively from 9thSeptember 2016. We will confirm the same through an announcement.
Final score on certificate: 25% of assignment score + 75% of certification exam score.
Award of certificate:
Certificate will be awarded only to those candidates who register for
the exam, attend the certificate examination and whose Final score > 40%
The
final score, assignment score and exam score will be printed on the
certificate. The certificate will also have a link to the NPTEL website (http://nptel.ac.in/noc),
where on logging in, your scores and e-certificate will be available
for verification (Appropriate announcements will be made). Please do
regularly submit assignments to get a good final score.
IMPORTANT NOTES
1) FOR CANDIDATES WHO WOULD LIKE TO WRITE MORE THAN 1 COURSE EXAM:-
Once the registration form is submitted after payment, no changes like
adding or removing the chosen course, exam date, city is possible. So,
if you are choosing to write 2 course exams, please choose suitably and make
the payment for both courses at the same time. Its not possible to pay
later for the second course. Once the payment is made, the registration
form will be non-editable.
2) FOR CANDIDATES WHO HAVE GOT SCHOLARSHIP VIA YOUR LOCAL CHAPTER: -
Students
who have got scholarship via NPTEL local chapter can opt to pay
individually using the above form. While doing so, the reduced fee will
automatically apply.
3) FOR CANDIDATES WHO ARE PAYING VIA THE LOCAL CHAPTER OF YOUR COLLEGE:-
If
you are paying fee via Local chapter of your college, ONLY After the
SPOC of your college has finished uploading the Bulk-Payment details for
the September exam, please access this form and add your signature,
photo and certificate (in case of SC/ST), if not already given and
verify if the details given are correct. This step is mandatory for
generating the hall ticket.
If there are any changes/issues/concerns, please write to nptel@iitm.ac.in
giving your Application number, email id, course registered for, name
and mention the change required. No changes will be entertained in these
details after August 22 2016.
Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL Team
Correction in assignment 2
Dear Students,
A typo in Q8 of assignment 2 was pointed out to us in the forum. The value in the question should be 69% rather than 68%. We have updated the question. Note that the options have not been changed. In case you have already submitted the assignment, but your answer changes due to the updated value, you are requested to re-submit the entire assignment. In case there is no change in your answer, then there is no requirement for you to re-submit your assignment.
Thanks,
Priyatosh
Release of week 3 content
Dear Students,
Week 3 lectures are now available on the course home page.
Regards,
Priiyatosh
Regarding private groups for this course
Dear Students,
I expect all of you would have noticed the multiple posts on the forum for joining WhatsApp groups related to this course. While we encourage communications and discussions among students, we would like to make a few clarifications.
1. There is no official WhatsApp group for this course. Any such group is an initiative by individual students.
2. Any issues brought up in such groups regarding this course will find no response from our side. We will only be able to respond to issues brought up in the forum accessible through the course home page.
Finally, I urge members of such groups to share any interesting issues or points raised in these groups on the forum as well. As all of you can appreciate, discussions on the forums do not benefit only those who initiate them, but also other students going through the posts with similar doubts. Thus, it would be great if important discussions happening in private groups could also be shared in the forums so that all of us can benefit.
Regards,
Priyatosh
Guidelines for accessing course content
Dear Students,
We still see several posts on the forum asking how to access the course or videos or how to submit assignments. In case you are still not comfortable with the use of the online portal, please go through the guidelines given below.
1. How to access the course?
Go to https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc16_mg06/. First of all, you have to login to access the contents of the course. See the login button in the right side of the page. You have to give your login credentials with which you registered. Note that it is important to use the email ID with which you registered for the course, otherwise you will not be able to access all the content.
If you are already logged into gmail with that account, when you go to the link, you will see that you are already logged in to the platform.
If you are logged on to any other account when you go to the course link, first log out of the current account and login back with the account you used for registering for the course.
If you don't see the login button but you see your id there, you are already logged in.
If you don't see anything to the right top, it is likely that your browser has a problem. Update your browser to the latest one.
2. How to access the videos?
Once you login, you will see a panel on the left side called Course Outline. Below that you will see unit headers listed. Click on a particular unit and you will see that the different lessons will be listed one after the other. Click on the lesson names and you will see videos starting with the lesson.
Some of you expressed difficulty in watching youtube videos in your campus. The videos are also hosted at http://nptel.ac.in/courses/110106072/. You can either watch the video there or even use the download links to download and watch locally.
Note that, to submit assignments and quizzes, you have to come to the platform (see how to do that below). The above link is only for video downloads.
3. How to submit quizzes?
You will see that, every week, along with the lessons, there will be a quiz. This quiz will be listed as the last item in the last unit posted every week. Click on Quiz link and the questions will open in the panel on the right. The questions are multiple choice or multiple selection kind of questions. You can take the quiz as many times as you can and whenever you want. There is no penalty on the number of times you take the quiz. Every quiz will have a deadline that is prominently displayed at the right top. Once the deadline is past, you will not be able to make submissions any more.
Once the deadline for an assignment passes, you can check your score for the corresponding assignment by clicking on the Progress tab (at the top, next to the Forum tab).
5. How to access the forum?
To access the forum, you have to login to the platform and click on Forum link at the top. You will see email discussions that the class is having and it is usually sorted by recency.
Before you post a question on the forum, spend some time looking at the questions that are already there. It is very likely that your question is answered already. Effective participation in an online course requires you to use the forum effectively. If you ask a question that has been answered several times already, it is very unlikely that you will get a response, and sending the email more times is not going to help. Use the forum search facility effectively to see if your question is answered. Above all, exercise patience and be polite in the forums. After all, all of us are there to learn and enjoy the course.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Priyatosh
Regarding assignments
Dear Students,
In view of the extension to the deadline for registering for this course, we are extending the assignment 1 deadline to Monday, August 1. Please note that there will be no further deadline extension for assignment 1 and also that the deadline for assignment 2 remains unchanged. I would request students who have joined the course recently to try their best to meet these deadlines.
I would also like to make a clarification with regards to the use of statistical tables in the assignments. As many of you would have noticed, there are questions in assignment 2 which require the use of statistical tables to solve them. In the lectures, we have talked about different tools and commands that can be used for solving such questions. However I would like to clarify that in the final exams, you will have to rely on tables only, when answering such questions. Thus, I request all of you to become comfortable with the use of statistical tables for answering questions given in assignment 2 (as well as questions in upcoming assignments) besides learning relevant commands in different software.
Regards,
Priyatosh
Release of week 2 content
Dear Students,
Week 2 lecture videos and assignment are now available on the course home page.
Regards,
Priyatosh
Link to download video lectures
Dear Students,
You can now download the lecture videos from the website http://nptel.ac.in/courses/110106072/ .
This site will be updated with new content each week as more lectures are released. Note however that assignments can only be attempted and submitted on the course's homepage at onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc16_mg06/ .
Regards,
Priyatosh
Welcome to the Introduction to Data Analytics course!
Dear Students,
Welcome to the Introduction to Data Analytics course! The course officially starts today, though as most of you who have been registered for a while know that the first week's content and assignment have already been released. Thus, for students who have signed up only recently, please login to your account on onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in to start going through the released material.
You can access the content from the home page of the Introduction to Data Analytics course, once you have logged in. The content can be accessed from the Course outline tab on the left of the page under the header 'Week 1 - Course Overview and Descriptive Statistics'. The assignment is the last link under that heading. The deadline for the assignment is July 27. You can submit the assignment any number of times, but please note that only the final submission will be considered for grading.
Since the release of the first module a couple of week's ago, the forum has been quite active. I request all of you to keep a tab on the forum posts and raise your own queries in case you have any doubts regarding the course or the lecture material. Post your queries regarding the lecture material under the 'Week 1' category and general queries regarding the course under the 'Admin' category. Also, if you have not introduced yourself, please do so under the 'Introduce yourself' thread. It is always great to hear from you and know your background and motivation for doing the course!
I would also like to address a couple of queries that we have been receiving in the forums. The first has to do with downloading the lecture videos. We do have separate website from which you can download the lecture videos as they get released each week. As soon as the first week's content is put up, we will be making an announcement regarding the same. Note however, that you will still have to login to the onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in website and go to the Introduction to Data Analytics course page to attempt and submit the assignments.
The second query is with regards to registering for the final exam. Again, once the registration process starts, an announcement will be made, so that those of you who are interested in signing up for the final exam can do so. Just to clarify, only those students who register for the final exam and appear for it will be receiving a certificate for this course.
Hopefully that answers some of the common questions many of you may be having. You can always use the forums to seek further clarifications.
Hope you have a great experience with this course!
Regards,
Priyatosh
(Course TA)
Release of week 1 content
Dear Students,
Welcome to the Introduction to Data Analytics course! Today we are releasing the first week's content including lecture videos and the first assignment. We are releasing the contents a couple of weeks early to give you extra time to get used to the online platform. Subsequent content will be released according to a weekly schedule.
You can access the content from the home page of the Introduction to Data Analytics course, once you have logged in. The content can be accessed from the Course outline tab on the left of the page under the header 'Week 1 - Course Overview and Descriptive Statistics'. The assignment is the last link under that heading. The deadline for the assignment is July 27. You can submit the assignment any number of times, but please note that only the final submission will be considered for grading.
Please make use of the forum for any doubts regarding the released content. Post your queries regarding the lecture material under the 'Week 1' category and general queries regarding the course under the 'Admin' category. Also, if you have not introduced yourself, please do so under the 'Introduce yourself' thread. It is always great to hear from all the participants and know your background and motivation for doing the course!
Hope you have a great experience with this course!
Regards,
Priyatosh
(Course TA)
Welcome To Introduction to Data Analytics
Dear Students,
Welcome to NPTEL Online Courses and Certification!
Thank you for signing up for our online course “Introduction to Data Analytics”. We wish you an enjoyable and informative learning experience.
The course will begin on July 18 2016. When content is released on the portal, you will get an email alerting you. Please watch the lectures, follow the course regularly and submit all assessments and assignments before the due date. Your regular participation is vital for learning.
- The announcement list which will only have messages from course instructors and teaching assistants - regarding the lessons, assignments, exam registration, hall tickets etc.
- The discussion forum which is for everyone to ask questions and interact, the course instructor/TA will respond to your queries- Forum is divided into categories like admin, week 1, week 2,..........and so on.
- If you have any questions regarding the exam, registration, hall tickets, results, etc can be posted under the admin section and queries related to the technical content in the lectures, any doubts in the assignments - please post under each week appropriately.
Course duration : 08 weeks
Start date and end date of course: 18 July 2016 - 9 September 2016
Dates of exams : 18 September 2016 & 25 September 2016
Time of exam : 2pm - 5pm
Final List of exam cities will be available in exam registration form.
Exam registration url - Will be announced shortly
Exam Fee: The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee of approximately Rs 1000(non-Programming)/1250(Programming) needs to be paid.
