Chennai, Jan. 28 -- Indian Institute of Technology Madras Faculty are offering affordable Courses on Data Science through their platform 'PadhAI.' They are launching an online self-paced course on Foundations of Data Science, which covers from beginners' level, the mathematical and programming skills required for a Data Scientist.

This five-month course is affordably priced at Rs 1,000 for students and faculty members. 'PadhAI' is the online school of One-Fourth Labs, an IIT Madras incubated Start-up founded by Dr. Mitesh Khapra and Dr. Pratyush Kumar, Assistant Professors in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras.

There is rising demand for trained data scientists across most industries such as manufacturing, fina...