tech hub with growing opportunities in AI and analytics. Key Cities: Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram, Kozhikode. Initiatives: Kerala Startup Mission, ICT Academy programs. Core components of Data Science Data Collection: Web scraping, databases, APIs. Data Cleaning & Processing: Python (Pandas, NumPy), R. Data Analysis & Visualization: Power BI, Tableau. Machine Learning & AI: TensorFlow, Scikit-Learn.