Artificial Intelligence – from concepts to products

This course showcases real life applications of Artificial Intelligence (rule based, machine learning and
deep learning) in various fields in manufacturing, trade and service industries. The topics covered range
from building a sales performance system to real time predictive emission control system and in between.

Participants learn to define the right data set, ask the right questions to drive system efficiency and
business value, and use the right models and tools to develop AI driven decisions. The course uses
Python/Jython and Java libraries, Spark Desktop to practice and implement the AI models.

At the end of the course, the participants will be able to:

 Implement ten intelligent system projects from concepts to products

 Build the mindsets, toolsets and skillsets that will promote invaluable insights required for AI
 Determine the top 5 area that will positively impact revenue in your organization that can be
automated
 Develop customized KPIs and AI solutions for maximum benefit
 Leverage AI to develop winning strategies for automation
 Transform data into AI that provide autonomous action
 Profile, predict and forecast the events/metrics of interest like attrition, XSell, performance

Pre requisites: Python programming essentials (can be taken as audit course)

Contents
Basic topics
AI Systems

 Understanding AI systems – process versus systems

 Drawing the canvas, identifying the important elements and metrics
 Knowledge, Reasoning and learning

AI Implementation

 Maturity level
 Adopting AI
 Progression and road map

Key performance areas and Key performance indicators

 Executive dashboards
 Performance score cards
 Management by exception
Intermediate topics
Rule based Intelligence – statistical thresholds, causal analysis, knowledge based systems

 Pattern discovery by visualization

 Rule based analytics
 Setting thresholds/limits for KPI
 Project 1– AI based sales planning and diagnosis

AI for BI - Dimensions, Facts, metrics, drill down/roll up, slice and dice, pivoting

 Finance - spend analysis, vendor performance.

 Planning – demand planning, attrition/failure analysis
 Increasing CLV – Planning, evaluation, recommendation
 Performance evaluation – subjective vs objective, Lexicon based NLP
 Project 2 – Lexicon based classification for food quality in restaurants
 Project 3 – AI based analysis for diagnosis BI features in sales

Machine learning – forecasting, regression and time series

 Unsupervised learning – PCA, SVD, KMeans, SOM, t-SNE

 Supervised learning – Naïve Bayes, Decision trees, Neural forecasting, Support vectors, Random
forests
 Anomaly detection – rule based, clustering based, CWW, Single class SVM
 Project 4 – Cancer diagnosis with machine learning
 Project 5 – Customer segmentation for cross sell

Deep learning – neural, unsupervised and tree based

 Auto encoders – AE vs PCA, stacked AE

 Jordan networks
 Elman networks
 Deep belief networks
 Recurrent neural networks
 Convolutional neural networks
 Project 6 – Image classification with deep learning
 Project 7 - Graph clustering with hierarchical kmeans to identify communities

Advanced topics
Fuzzy systems

 Fuzzy logic vs Boolean logic

 Lingusitic variables
 Approximate reasoning
 Building fuzzy systems
 Project 8 – Temperature control
Causal Modeling

 ML/DL vs causal models

 Bayesian models as causal models
 Fuzzy models as causal models
 Deep belief networks
 Project 9 – Clinical diagnosis with Bayesian reasoning

Optimization

 Search algorithms – best first, depth first

 Genetic algorithms – heuristic and random search
 Simulated annealing, Ant colony optimization
 Project 10 – Optimization of sales route

Natural language processing

 Computational linguistics vs AI approaches for NLP

 Language basics – tokenization, stemming, parsing, ngrams
 Topic modeling – SVD, Kmeans
 Sentiment analysis – Naïve Bayes, Lexicon based analysis
 Project 11 – Product review analysis using NLP and AI
 Project 12 – Virtual Market research with deep learning