A 3-month Data Science Roadmap will focus on mastering essential concepts, tools, and techniques
to build a strong foundation in Data Science. This roadmap is designed for dedicated learning with at
least 4–6 hours per day to cover topics efficiently.
📅 Month 1: Foundations & Programming
Week 1: Python for Data Science
Install Python, Jupyter Notebook, VS Code
Learn Python basics:
Data types (int, float, string, list, tuple, dict, set)
Conditional statements (if-else)
Loops (for, while)
Functions (def, lambda)
List comprehensions
Libraries:
NumPy (arrays, indexing, broadcasting)
Pandas (DataFrames, Series, filtering, aggregation)
Matplotlib & Seaborn (basic visualizations)
Week 2: Data Cleaning & Preprocessing
Handling missing data (dropna(), fillna())
Data transformation (apply(), map())
Outlier detection & removal
Handling categorical variables (One-Hot Encoding, Label Encoding)
Feature scaling (Normalization, Standardization)
Week 3: Statistics & Probability
Descriptive statistics (mean, median, mode, variance, standard deviation)
Probability distributions (normal, binomial, Poisson)
Hypothesis testing (p-value, t-test, chi-square test)
Correlation & Covariance
Week 4: Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)
Summary statistics (describe(), info())
Data visualization:
Histograms, Box plots, Scatter plots
Heatmaps (Seaborn)
Pair plots
Feature engineering techniques
Handling imbalanced data
📅 Month 2: Machine Learning & Model Building
Week 5: Supervised Learning - Regression
Linear Regression (OLS, assumptions, implementation in Sklearn)
Polynomial Regression
Regularization (Ridge, Lasso)
Evaluation Metrics (MSE, RMSE, R²)
Week 6: Supervised Learning - Classification
Logistic Regression
Decision Trees
Random Forest
Support Vector Machines (SVM)
K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN)
Metrics: Accuracy, Precision, Recall, F1-score, ROC-AUC
Week 7: Unsupervised Learning
Clustering:
K-Means
Hierarchical Clustering
DBSCAN
Dimensionality Reduction:
PCA (Principal Component Analysis)
t-SNE
Week 8: Model Optimization & Feature Selection
Feature selection techniques (RFE, SelectKBest)
Hyperparameter tuning (GridSearchCV, RandomizedSearchCV)
Cross-validation (K-Fold, Stratified K-Fold)
Handling imbalanced datasets (SMOTE, Undersampling)
📅 Month 3: Advanced Topics & Real-world Projects
Week 9: Deep Learning Basics
Introduction to Neural Networks
TensorFlow & Keras Basics
Building a simple Neural Network
Activation Functions (ReLU, Sigmoid, Softmax)
Week 10: Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Tokenization & Text Preprocessing
TF-IDF, Word2Vec, BERT basics
Sentiment Analysis project
Week 11: Time Series Analysis
Handling Date-Time Data
ARIMA & LSTM models
Forecasting future trends
Week 12: Deployment & Real-World Projects
Flask/FastAPI for model deployment
Streamlit for creating interactive dashboards
MLOps Basics (Docker, Git, CI/CD)
End-to-End Project: Build, train, evaluate, and deploy a model
🎯 Final Deliverables
✅ Hands-on projects for each major topic
✅ At least 1 end-to-end real-world project
✅ Knowledge of ML, DL, NLP, and Time Series
✅ Deployment skills for production models
