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## programme_catalogue

Three programmes. Full syllabus, scope, and fees stated plainly.

A five-week data course, a single-evening evaluation seminar, and a six-month development track. Each is self-contained with its own prerequisites.

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## teaching_approach

How the teaching is structured

All three programmes follow the same general logic: describe the problem before offering solutions, use real artefacts (messy data, actual evaluation sets, code that runs) rather than illustrations, and give feedback that explains reasoning rather than just marking correctness or incorrectness.

Sessions are online and recorded. The development track adds fortnightly one-to-one office hours and a cohort channel, both of which are kept small enough to be practically useful. Each programme lists what it does not cover alongside what it does — so you can decide before signing up whether the scope matches what you need.

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## programme_01 # data_handling_for_ai_projects

Data handling course
Duration 5 weeks · 1 evening/week
Homework ~3 h/week
Fee RM 980

Data Handling for AI Projects

A five-week course on the part of AI work that consumes most of the time and gets taught least: getting data into a shape you can trust. Covers loading messy real-world files, schema validation, deduplication, leakage and how it sneaks into splits, class balance, labelling workflows and inter-annotator disagreement, dataset documentation, and versioning so that a result from March can still be reproduced in September.

# syllabus_topics

  • Loading and inspecting genuinely untidy files
  • Schema validation and deduplication strategies
  • Data leakage — how it happens and how to detect it
  • Class balance and labelling workflows
  • Inter-annotator disagreement measurement
  • Dataset documentation and reproducible versioning

# prerequisite

Python and basic pandas. No prior ML background required.

# this_course_does_not_cover

Model training, model architecture, deployment, inference optimisation, or evaluation methodology.

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## programme_02 # evening_seminar_evaluating_ai_systems

Evening Seminar: Evaluating AI Systems

A single three-hour evening seminar on the question most teams answer badly: is the new version better? Covers building a small evaluation set that reflects your actual traffic, choosing metrics that mean something, pairwise comparison, using models as graders and where that goes wrong, statistical significance on small samples, regression suites, and writing an evaluation report that a sceptical colleague would accept.

# seminar_topics

  • Building an evaluation set from real traffic samples
  • Selecting metrics that reflect what you actually care about
  • Pairwise comparison methodology
  • Model-as-grader approaches and failure modes
  • Statistical significance on small evaluation samples
  • Writing an evaluation report for a sceptical audience

# this_seminar_does_not_cover

Training, deployment, infrastructure, architecture decisions, or data preparation.

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AI evaluation seminar
Duration One evening · 3 hours
Format Live online, max 30
Prerequisite Reads code; some stats helpful
Fee RM 480

# included

  • Live session + recording
  • Slide deck for internal reuse
  • Evaluation report template
  • Reading list of primary sources
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## programme_03 # ai_systems_development_track

AI Systems Development Track
Duration 24 weeks (6 months)
Workload 12–15 h/week
Project time ~70% of total hours
Fee RM 4,650

AI Systems Development Track

A six-month, part-time track for developers building complete systems rather than isolated models. The syllabus moves from foundations through retrieval systems, tool-using agents and their failure modes, evaluation harnesses, cost and latency work, serving and monitoring, and finishes with a self-defined capstone that must run end to end and survive a review from someone who did not build it.

# syllabus_phases

  • Foundations: vectorised computation, training loops, transformer end to end
  • Retrieval systems and vector search
  • Tool-using agents and their failure modes
  • Evaluation harnesses and regression suites
  • Cost, latency and serving infrastructure
  • Self-defined capstone: end-to-end, independently reviewed

# prerequisite

Professional software experience, comfortable Python. Short technical conversation before enrolment.

# this_track_does_not_cover

Research methods, academic paper writing, fine-tuning at scale, or post-training alignment work.

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## programme_comparison_matrix

Choosing between programmes

They are independent. You do not need to take them in sequence.

Feature Data Course Eval Seminar Dev Track
Duration5 weeks1 evening24 weeks
Time commitment~5 h/week3 hours total12–15 h/week
Live sessionsWeekly (2h)One (3h)Twice-weekly
Recording provided
Written feedback3 exercise sets4 projects + capstone
Office hoursFortnightly 1:1
Compute credit
Cohort channel
Fee (RM)9804804,650
Best forData engineers and ML engineers working with pipelinesEngineers, analysts, PMs evaluating AI outputDevelopers building complete AI systems
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## shared_standards_across_all_programmes

Personal data

Used only for course administration. Not shared with third parties for marketing.

Recording availability

All sessions recorded. Recordings shared with enrolled participants promptly after each session.

Syllabus changes

Changes between cohorts communicated in advance. Participants enrolled in a cohort receive what was described at the time of enrolment.

No outcomes claims

We make no claims about employment, salary, or career outcomes of any kind. These pages describe syllabuses and processes only.

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## fee_table # Malaysian_Ringgit

Programme Fee (RM) What is included
Data Handling for AI Projects RM 980 Live sessions, recordings, 3 exercise sets + written feedback, documentation template, cohort channel
Evening Seminar: Evaluating AI RM 480 Live session, recording, slide deck, evaluation report template, reading list
AI Systems Development Track RM 4,650 Twice-weekly sessions, recordings, 4 reviewed projects, capstone review, fortnightly office hours, cohort channel, compute credit, personal repository

# prices are per participant per cohort · no additional tiers or hidden costs

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## enquiry_cta

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