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Data science is the process of extracting deep insights from complex data by blending statistical analysis, machine learning, and domain expertise. It involves wrangling messy datasets from diverse sources, building predictive models, and uncovering trends or solutions to tackle business challenges. Effective data science balances rigor, creativity, and scalability, ensuring robust, impactful results. It often hinges on coding with tools like Python or R, experimenting with algorithms, and collaborating with teams to turn data into strategic value.

  • Data Scientist Career Academy
  • Fee: $1,700.00
    Modality: Online

    Welcome to the Data Scientist Career Academy. This comprehensive program is designed to equip aspiring data scientists with the essential skills and knowledge needed to succeed in the rapidly evolving field of data science. Through this hands-on curriculum, you’ll learn how to transform raw data into actionable insights, build predictive models, and make data-driven decisions that drive business impact.

    Throughout this program, you’ll gain proficiency in essential data science tools and technologies, including Python, R, SQL, and machine learning algorithms. You’ll dive into data wrangling, statistical analysis, data visualization, and data-driven storytelling. You’ll also explore key concepts in data modeling, model evaluation, and deploying machine learning models at scale. The Data Scientist Career Academy includes the IBM Data Science Professional Certificate, the Fractal Data Science Professional Certificate as well as have 7 Guided Projects to help master new techniques and programs:

    • Transforming Data in R
    • Exploratory vs Confirmatory data analysis using Python
    • Simple Linear Regression for the Absolute Beginner
    • Mining Quality Prediction Using Machine and Deep Learning
    • Master Data Analysis with Pandas
    • Getting Started with Rstudio
    • Importing Data into R

    The course combines video lectures, interactive labs, and real-world projects to ensure you not only learn but apply your knowledge effectively. With guided assessments and feedback, you will build a robust portfolio that showcases your skills to potential employers.

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  • IBM Data Science Professional Certificate
  • Fee: $850.00
    Modality: Online

    Prepare for a career in the high-growth field of data science. In this program, you’ll develop the skills, tools, and portfolio to have a competitive edge in the job market as an entry-level data scientist in as little as 4 months. No prior knowledge of computer science or programming languages is required.

    Data science involves gathering, cleaning, organizing, and analyzing data with the goal of extracting helpful insights and predicting expected outcomes. The demand for skilled data scientists who can use data to tell compelling stories to inform business decisions has never been greater.

    You’ll learn in-demand skills used by professional data scientists including databases, data visualization, statistical analysis, predictive modeling, machine learning algorithms, and data mining. You’ll also work with the latest languages, tools,and libraries including Python, SQL, Jupyter notebooks, Github, Rstudio, Pandas, Numpy, ScikitLearn, Matplotlib, and more.

    Upon completing the full program, you will have built a portfolio of data science projects to provide you with the confidence to excel in your interviews. 

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  • Fractal Data Science Professional Certificate
  • Fee: $710.00
    Modality: Online

    Prepare for a new career in this high-demand field with a Professional Certificate from Fractal Analytics. Whether you're a recent graduate seeking a rewarding career shift or a professional aiming to upskill, this program will equip you with the essential skills demanded by the industry.

    This curriculum is designed with a problem-solving approach at the center to equip and enable you with the skills, required to solve data science problems, instead of just focusing on the tools and applications.

    Through hands-on courses you'll master Python programming, harness the power of machine learning, cultivate expertise in data manipulation, and build understanding of cognitive factors affecting decisions. You will also learn the direct application of tools like SQL, PowerBI, and Python to real-world scenarios.

    Upon completion, you will earn a Professional Certificate, which will help to make your profile standout in your career journey.

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  • Transforming Data in R
  • Fee: $20.00
    Modality: Online

    In this 1-hour long project-based course, you will learn how to pivot data into wide and long format, split and combine cells and columns, handling missing values, select groups of observations and variables, and join data from different tables.

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  • Exploratory vs Confirmatory data analysis using Python
  • Fee: $20.00
    Modality: Online

    This Guided Project, Exploratory and Confirmatory Data Analysis using python, is for those who want to learn about different methods of data analysis. In this 2-hour-long project-based course, you will understand and apply Exploratory Data Analysis, build different Data visualizations, apply different exploration techniques based on the data at hand and define and understand the concept of Confirmatory Data Analysis.

    This project is unique because you will learn how and where to start your data exploration. You will also learn how to implement different data visualizations using python and when to use them. To be successful in this project, you will need to be experienced in python programming language and working with jupyter notebook environment.

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  • Simple Linear Regression for the Absolute Beginner
  • Fee: $20.00
    Modality: Online

    Hello everyone and welcome to this hands-on guided project on simple linear regression for the absolute beginner. In simple linear regression, we predict the value of one variable Y based on another variable X. X is called the independent variable and Y is called the dependent variable. This guided project is practical and directly applicable to many industries. You can add this project to your portfolio of projects which is essential for your next job interview.

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  • Mining Quality Prediction Using Machine and Deep Learning
  • Fee: $20.00
    Modality: Online

    In this 1.5-hour long project-based course, you will be able to:
    - Understand the theory and intuition behind Simple and Multiple Linear Regression.
    - Import Key python libraries, datasets and perform data visualization
    - Perform exploratory data analysis and standardize the training and testing data.
    - Train and Evaluate different regression models using Sci-kit Learn library.
    - Build and train an Artificial Neural Network to perform regression.
    - Understand the difference between various regression models KPIs such as MSE, RMSE, MAE, R2, and adjusted R2.
    - Assess the performance of regression models and visualize the performance of the best model using various KPIs.

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  • Mastering Data Analysis with Pandas
  • Fee: $20.00
    Modality: Online

    In this structured series of hands-on guided projects, we will master the fundamentals of data analysis and manipulation with Pandas and Python. Pandas is a super powerful, fast, flexible and easy to use open-source data analysis and manipulation tool. 

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  • Getting Started with Rstudio
  • Fee: $20.00
    Modality: Remote

    In this 1-hour long project-based course, you will learn everything you need to know to get started with RStudio IDE, including how to install RStudio onto your Windows, MAC or Linux machine, how to use RStudio Cloud, a lightweight, cloud-based version of RStudio, how to start creating R projects, install and load R packages, as well as display interactive maps, graphs and tables with 1 line of code.

    This course is perfect if you want to start learning R programming with RStudio: the Premiere IDE for R

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  • Importing Data into R
  • Fee: $20.00
    Modality: Online

    In this 1-hour long project-based course, you will learn how to read all sorts of data and import them into R, including CSV files, Excel files, data from other statistical software, the web and from relational databases.

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