Data Scientist with ITIL® 4 Foundation in IT Service Management and PRINCE2® 7 Foundation in Project Management

Free of cost

by funding

Data scientists are employed to help companies handle large amounts of data and optimize existing processes on the basis of this data. They convert raw data into structured data, analyze it and thus provide a basis for decision-making for companies. You will also learn the PRINCE2® project management method and the ITIL® process optimization method.
  • Certificates: Certificate "Data Scientist"
    Certificate "ITIL® 4 Foundation in IT Service Management"
    Certificate "PRINCE2® 7 Foundation in Project Management"
  • Additional Certificates: Data Engineer" certificate
    Data Analytics" certificate
    Machine Learning" certificate
    Deep Learning" certificate
  • Examination: Practical project work with final presentations
    ITIL® 4 Foundation in IT Service Management
    PRINCE2® 7 Foundation in Project Management
  • Teaching Times: Full-time
    Monday to Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 3:35 p.m. (in weeks with public holidays from 8:30 a.m. to 5:10 p.m.)
  • Language of Instruction: German
  • Duration: 20 Weeks

Data Engineer

Basics of Business Intelligence (approx. 2 days)

Fields of application, dimensions of a BI architecture

Basics of business intelligence, OLAP, OLTP, tasks of data engineers

Data Warehousing (DWH): handling and processing of structured, semi-structured and unstructured data


Requirements management (approx. 2 days)

Tasks, objectives and procedures in requirements analysis

Data modeling, introduction/modeling with ERM

Introduction/modeling in UML

- Class diagrams

- Use case analysis

- Activity diagrams


Artificial intelligence (AI) in the work process

Presentation of specific AI technologies

and possible applications in the professional environment


Databases (approx. 3 days)

Basics of database systems

Architecture of database management systems

Application of RDBMS

Implementation of data model in RDBMS, normal forms

Practical and theoretical introduction to SQL

Limits of relational databases, csv, json


Data Warehouse (approx. 4 days)

Star Schema

Data modeling

Creation of Star Schema in RDBMS

Snowflake Schema, basics, data modeling

Creation of Snowflake Schema in RDBMS

Galaxy Schema: Basics, data modeling

Slowly Changing Dimension Tables Type 1 to 5 - Restating, Stacking, Reorganizing, mini Dimension and Type 5

Introduction to normal, causal, mini and monster, heterogeneous and sub dimensions

Comparison of state and transaction oriented

Fact tables, density and storage from DWH


ETL (approx. 4 days)

Data Cleansing

- Null Values

- Preparation of data

- Harmonization of data

- Application of regular expressions

Data Understanding

- Data validation

- Statistical data analysis

Data protection, data security

Practical structure of ETL routes

Data Vault 2.0, basics, hubs, links, satellites, hash key, hash diff.

Data Vault data modeling

Practical structure of a Data Vault model - Raw Vault, practical implementation of hash procedures


Project work (approx. 5 days)

To consolidate the content learned

Presentation of the project results

Data analytics

Introduction to data analysis (approx. 1 day)

CRISP-DM reference model

Data analytics workflows

Definition of artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning

Requirements and role in the company of data engineers, data scientists and data analysts


Review of Python basics (approx. 1 day)

data types

Functions


Data analysis (approx. 3 days)

Central Python modules in the context of data analytics (NumPy, Pandas)

Process of data preparation

Data mining algorithms in Python


Artificial intelligence (AI) in the work process

Presentation of specific AI technologies

and possible applications in the professional environment


Data visualization (approx. 3 days)

Explorative data analysis

insights

Data quality

Benefit analysis

Visualization with Python: Matplotlib, Seaborn, Plotly Express

Data storytelling


Data management (approx. 2 days)

Big data architectures

Relational databases with SQL

Comparison of SQL and NoSQL databases

Business Intelligence

Data protection in the context of data analysis


Data analysis in a big data context (approx. 1 day)

MapReduce approach

Spark

NoSQL


Dashboards (approx. 3 days)

Library: Dash

Structure of dashboards - Dash components

Customizing dashboards

Callbacks


Text Mining (approx. 1 day)

Data preprocessing

Visualization

Library: SpaCy


Project work (approx. 5 days)

To consolidate the content learned

Presentation of the project results

Machine Learning

Introduction to Machine Learning (approx. 5 days)

Why machine learning?

Application examples

Supervised learning, unsupervised learning, partially supervised learning, reinforcement learning

Examples of data sets

Getting to know data

Training, validation and test data

Viewing data

Making predictions


Supervised learning (approx. 5 days)

Classification and regression

Generalization, overfitting and underfitting

Size of the data set

Algorithms for supervised learning

Linear models

Bayes classifiers

Decision trees

Random Forest

Gradient Boosting

k-nearest neighbors

Support Vector Machines

Conditional Random Field

Neural Networks and Deep Learning

Probabilities


Unsupervised learning (approx. 5 days)

Types of unsupervised learning

Preprocessing and scaling

Data transformations

Scaling training and test data

Dimension reduction

Feature engineering

Manifold learning

Principal component decomposition (PCA)

Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF)

Manifold learning with t-SNE

Cluster analysis

k-Means clustering

Agglomerative clustering

Hierarchical cluster analysis

DBSCAN

Cluster algorithms


Evaluation and improvement (approx. 2 days)

Model selection and model evaluation

Tuning the hyperparameters of an estimator

Cross-validation

Grid search

Evaluation metrics

Classification


Project work (approx. 3 days)

To consolidate the content learned

Presentation of the project results

Deep learning

Introduction to Deep Learning (approx. 1 day)

Deep learning as a type of machine learning


Fundamentals of neural networks (approx. 4 days)

Perceptron

Calculation of neural networks

Optimization of model parameters, backpropagation

Deep learning libraries

Regression vs. classification

Learning curves, overfitting and regularization

Hyperparameter optimization

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD)

Momentum, Adam Optimizer

Learning rate


Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) (approx. 2 days)

Image classification

Convolutional layers, pooling layers

Reshaping layers, flattening, global-average pooling

CNN architectures ImageNet-Competition

Deep neural networks, vanishing gradients, skip connections, batch normalization


Transfer Learning (approx. 1 day)

Adaptation of models

Unsupervised pre-training

Image data augmentation, explainable AI


Regional CNN (approx. 1 day)

Object localization

Regression problems

Branched neural networks


Methods of creative image generation (approx. 1 day)

Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN)

Deepfakes

Diffusion models


Recurrent neural networks (approx. 2 days)

Sequence analysis

Recurrent layers

Backpropagation through time (BPTT)

Analysis of time series

Exploding and vanishing gradient problems

LSTM (Long Short-Term Memory)

GRU (Gated Recurrent Unit)

Deep RNN

Deep LSTM


Text processing using neural networks (approx. 2 days)

Text preprocessing

Embedding layers

Text classification

Sentiment analysis

Transfer learning in NLP

Translations

Sequence-to-sequence method, encoder-decoder architecture


Language models (approx. 1 day)

BERT, GPT

Attention layers, Transformers

Text generation pipelines

Summarization

chatbots


Deep reinforcement learning (approx. 1 day)

Control of dynamic systems

Agent systems

Training through rewards

Policy Gradients

Deep Q-learning


Bayesian neural networks (approx. 1 day)

Uncertainties in neural networks

Statistical evaluation of forecasts

Confidence, standard deviation

Unbalanced data

Sampling methods


Project work (approx. 3 days)

To consolidate the content learned

Presentation of the project results

ITIL® 4 Foundation in IT Service Management

Understanding the key concepts of IT service management (approx. 2 days)

Introduction to the service concept

The ITIL® qualification scheme

Definition of important terms in IT service management ITSM

Key concepts of value creation through services

Key concepts of relationship management


Basic conceptual building blocks of ITIL® (approx. 2 days)

The ITIL® Guiding Principles

Type, use and interaction of the Guiding Principles

The four dimensions of service management

The ITIL® Service Value Systems (SVS) and its components

The Service Value Chain, its activities and their interaction


Artificial intelligence (AI) in the work process

Presentation of specific AI technologies

and possible applications in the professional environment


The ITIL® Practices (approx. 3 days)

The seven most important ITIL® Practices

The purpose of the other eight ITIL® Practices


Project work, certification preparation and certification exam (approx. 3 days)

ITIL® is a registered trademark of AXELOS Limited, used with the permission of AXELOS Limited. All rights reserved.

PRINCE2® 7 Foundation in Project Management

Introduction to project management based on PRINCE2® (approx. 1 day)

Definition and characteristics of a project

Project control cycle of project management and the six project dimensions

Challenges in project management - why do projects fail?

Advantages of the PRINCE2® project management method

Customer-supplier environments

Projects in a commercial environment

Structure of the PRINCE2® method and its five integrated building blocks


The PRINCE2® basic principles (approx. 1 day)

The seven basic principles of PRINCE2®

Statements and contents of the basic principles

Relationship between the basic principles and the PRINCE2® topics

Adaptation of PRINCE2® to the project environment


Artificial intelligence (AI) in the work process

Presentation of specific AI technologies

and possible applications in the professional environment


The importance of people for PRINCE2® projects (approx. 1 day)

Change management

Leadership and management

Communication in the project


The seven topics of PRINCE2® (approx. 3 days)

Business case (benefits management approach and sustainability management approach)

Organization (project structure, roles and responsibilities)

Creation of plans

Quality planning and quality control

Risk management

Issue management

Controlling the progress of the project


The seven PRINCE2® processes (approx. 2 days)

Interaction of the seven PRINCE2® processes in the project process

Activities in the respective PRINCE2® processes

Preparing, steering and initiating a project

Controlling a phase

Managing product delivery

Managing phase transitions

Closing a project


Project work, certification preparation and certification exam (approx. 2 days)

PRINCE2® is a registered trademark of AXELOS Limited, used with the permission of AXELOS Limited. All rights reserved.



Changes are possible. The course content is updated regularly.

Programming skills in Python and experience with databases (SQL) are required.

You are familiar with processes relating to the consolidation, preparation, enrichment and transfer of data as well as the application of machine learning. You are also familiar with the areas of application of deep learning and the functioning of neural networks.

In addition, you have important specialist knowledge to evaluate and optimize the process and service quality of companies and are also familiar with the terms and concepts of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL®). You will also be able to work on PRINCE2® projects and be familiar with their processes and terminology. You will also be able to plan and implement IT projects and measure their success.

The course is aimed at people with a degree in computer science, business informatics, business administration, mathematics or comparable qualifications.

Data scientists are used in companies that want to optimize their business processes based on the analysis and modelling of large amounts of data, such as in logistics, online retail and marketing, in the energy industry and also in the healthcare sector.

With knowledge of IT service and project management with ITIL® and PRINCE2®, you have an additional qualification that is in high demand, especially in the IT sector.

Didactic concept

Your lecturers are highly qualified both professionally and didactically and will teach you from the first to the last day (no self-study system).

You will learn in effective small groups. The courses usually consist of 6 to 25 participants. The general lessons are supplemented by numerous practical exercises in all course modules. The practice phase is an important part of the course, as it is during this time that you process what you have just learned and gain confidence and routine in its application. The final section of the course involves a project, a case study or a final exam.

 

Virtual classroom alfaview®

Lessons take place using modern alfaview® video technology - either from the comfort of your own home or at our premises at Bildungszentrum. The entire course can see each other face-to-face via alfaview®, communicate with each other in lip-sync voice quality and work on joint projects. Of course, you can also see and talk to your connected trainers live at any time and you will be taught by your lecturers in real time for the entire duration of the course. The lessons are not e-learning, but real live face-to-face lessons via video technology.

 

The courses at alfatraining are funded by Agentur für Arbeit and are certified in accordance with the AZAV approval regulation. When submitting a Bildungsgutscheinor Aktivierungs- und Vermittlungsgutschein, the entire course costs are usually covered by your funding body.
Funding is also possible via Europäischen Sozialfonds (ESF), Deutsche Rentenversicherung (DRV) or regional funding programs. As a regular soldier, you have the option of attending further training courses via Berufsförderungsdienst (BFD). Companies can also have their employees qualified via funding from Agentur für Arbeit (Qualifizierungschancengesetz).

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