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Certificates: Certificate "Machine and Deep Learning with Data Engineer"
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Additional Certificates: Data Engineer" certificate
Machine Learning" certificate
Deep Learning" certificate -
Examination: Praxisbezogene Projektarbeiten mit Abschlusspräsentationen
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Teaching Times: Full-timeMonday 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.)
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Language of Instruction: German
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Duration: 12 Weeks
Data Engineer
Fundamentals of Data Engineering and Data Architectures (approx. 2 days)
Tasks and Application Areas in Data Engineering
Fundamentals of Modern Data Architectures and Data Platforms
Fundamentals and Comparison of Cloud-Based Data Architectures
OLTP and OLAP
Processing Structured, Semi-Structured, and Unstructured Data
Requirements Management and Data Modeling (approx. 1 day)
Requirements for Data and Data Sources
Conceptual Data Modeling
Modeling Data Structures and Data Flows
Data Contracts, Data Governance, and Data Lineage
Databases and Data Processing (approx. 1 day)
Database System Architecture
SQL vs. NoSQL vs. NewSQL: A Comparison
Relational Data Modeling
SQL for Querying and Processing Data
Data Warehousing and Modern Data Architectures (approx. 2 days)
Fundamentals and Architecture of Data Warehouse Systems
Dimensional Data Modeling and Schema Design
Facts, Dimensions, and Historical Data Storage
Comparing Data Warehouses, Data Lakes, and Lakehouses
Introduction to dbt
Practical Implementation of Data Models
Data Integration and Data Pipelines (approx. 5 days)
Data Integration and Data Provisioning
ETL and ELT Processes
Design and Orchestration of Data Pipelines
Data Cleaning, Validation, and Data Quality
Batch and Streaming Processing
Practical Application of Airflow and Spark
Programming and Automated Data Processing (approx. 4 days)
Python Environments and Package Management
Data Processing and Transformation with Python
Automation of data processing workflows
Connecting to Different Data Sources and Interfaces
Development of data engineering workflows
Containerization with Docker
AI-powered support in the development and data processing process
Project work (approx. 5 days)
To consolidate the content learned
Presentation of the project results
Machine Learning
Introduction to Machine Learning and the ML Workflow (approx. 3 days)
Fundamentals, Applications, and Types of Machine Learning
Classification of Modern AI and Machine Learning Methods
Machine Learning Workflow with scikit-learn
Training, validation, and test data
Underfitting, overfitting, and model evaluation
Cross-Validation
Data Preparation and Feature Engineering (approx. 2 days)
Data Quality and Preprocessing
Scaling, Normalization, and Encoding
Feature Engineering and Feature Selection
Handling Missing Values, Outliers, and Imbalanced Datasets
Supervised Learning – Regression and Classification (approx. 5 days)
Regression and Classification Methods
Linear and Regularized Models
Distance-, probability-, and tree-based methods
Ensemble and Boosting Methods
Model Comparison and Hyperparameter Optimization
Evaluation Metrics and Probabilistic Predictions
Feature importance and explainable AI
Unsupervised Learning (approx. 2 days)
Dimension Reduction and Feature Extraction
Clustering Methods and Evaluation of Clustering Results
Anomaly Detection
Time Series Analysis and Forecasting (approx. 1 day)
Fundamentals and Analysis of Time Series Data
Forecasting Methods and Machine Learning for Time Series
Neural Networks and Modern AI (approx. 2 days)
Fundamentals of Neural Networks and Deep Learning
Machine Learning for Text Data and Natural Language Processing
Foundation Models, Large Language Models, and Generative AI
Deployment of ML models (approx. 1 day)
Storage and deployment of trained models
Development of simple ML applications
Interfaces and platforms for machine learning models
Project work (approx. 4 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)
Multilayer perceptrons
Calculation of neural networks
Optimization of model parameters, backpropagation
Deep learning libraries
Regression vs. classification
Typical loss and activation functions
Evaluating the model prediction with metrics
Regression and classification metrics
Learning curves, overfitting and regularization
Hyperparameter optimization
L1/12 regularization
Dropout
Early stopping
Stochastic gradient descent (SGD)
Momentum, Adam Optimizer
Optimization of the learning rate
Dynamic learning rate adjustment
Reduce Learning Rate on Plateau
Learning rate optimization with the TensorBoard
Controlling the fit process with callbacks
Saving and loading models
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)
Adapting and combining models
Unsupervised pre-training
Image data augmentation, explainable AI
Data loader
Regional CNN (approx. 1 day)
Object localization
Semantic segmentation
Regression problems
Branched neural networks
YOLO architecture
U-Net models
Methods of creative image generation (approx. 1 day)
Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN)
Deepfakes
Diffusion models
Superresolution
Supplementing image areas
Apply foundation models from Hugging Face
Multimodal models
LoRA-Fine-Tuning
Application areas of generative models
Legal restrictions
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
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Translations
Text generation
Sequence-to-sequence method, encoder-decoder architecture
Encoder-only and decoder-only models
Local application of large language models
Language models (approx. 1 day)
Transfomer architecture
Attention and Multihead-Attention
Positional Encodings
Fine-tuning large language models
Prompting
Text generation pipelines
Summarization
Chatbots
Retrieval Augmented Generation
AI agents
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
Changes are possible, the course content is updated regularly.
After the course, you will have relevant knowledge on the topics of machine learning and deep learning. You will know the most important reasons for using machine learning, areas of application and the various categories and concepts of machine learning. You will also understand the areas of application of deep learning and how neural networks work. You will be able to provide machine learning and document processes.
In addition, you have knowledge of data modeling, integration, preparation, and automated processing, and you can design and implement modern data processes.
The course is aimed at people with a degree in computer science, business informatics, mathematics or a comparable qualification.
After completing the course, you can gain a foothold in areas such as data science, machine learning engineering and AI development. There are also excellent career opportunities in data infrastructure as a data engineer or business intelligence analyst.
Your meaningful certificate provides a detailed insight into the qualifications you have acquired and improves your career prospects.
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).