Alex Aklson

Alex Aklson, Ph.D., is a data scientist in the Digital Business Group at IBM Canada. Alex has been intensively involved in many exciting data science projects such as designing a smart system that could detect the onset of dementia in older adults using longitudinal trajectories of walking speed and home activity. Before joining IBM, Alex worked as a data scientist at Datascope Analytics, a data science consulting firm in Chicago, IL, where he designed solutions and products using a human-centred, data-driven approach. Alex received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Toronto.

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Data Science Methodology (Coursera)

May 2nd 2025
Data Science Methodology (Coursera)
Course Auditing
Coursera
IBM
Categories
Data Science
Statistics & Data Analysis
Effort
Beginner
3 Weeks
1-4 Hours/Week
Languages
English
English
Arabic
French
Portuguese
Italian
German
Russian
Spanish
Persian
Data Science Methodology (Coursera)
Despite the recent increase in computing power and access to data over the last couple of decades, our ability to use the data within the decision making process is either lost or not maximized at all too often, we don't have a solid understanding of the questions being asked [...]
Introduction to Data Science Specialization
IBM Data Science Professional Certificate
Methodology
Data Science
Data Science Methodology
Model Deployment
Data Modeling
Data Preparation
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May 2nd 2025
Course Auditing
Coursera
IBM
Data Science
Statistics & Data Analysis
Beginner
3 Weeks
1-4 Hours/Week
33.00 EUR/month
English
English
Arabic
French
Portuguese
Italian
German
Russian
Spanish
Persian

Applied Data Science Capstone (Coursera)

Apr 28th 2025
Applied Data Science Capstone (Coursera)
Course Auditing
Coursera
IBM
Categories
Statistics & Data Analysis
Data Science
Effort
Intermediate
5-12 Weeks
5-10 Hours/Week
Languages
English
Turkish
Spanish
Russian
Portuguese
Korean
Italian
German
French
Vietnamese
English
Chinese
Arabic
Applied Data Science Capstone (Coursera)
This capstone project course will give you a taste of what data scientists go through in real life when working with data. You will learn about location data and different location data providers, such as Foursquare. You will learn how to make RESTful API calls to the Foursquare API [...]
IBM Data Science Professional Certificate
Applied Data Science Specialization
Data Analysis
Python Programming
HTML
Location Analysis
Neighborhoods
Clustering
Foursquare
Data Science
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Apr 28th 2025
Course Auditing
Coursera
IBM
Statistics & Data Analysis
Data Science
Intermediate
5-12 Weeks
5-10 Hours/Week
32.00 EUR/month
English
Turkish
Spanish
Russian
Portuguese
Korean
Italian
German
French
Vietnamese
English
Chinese
Arabic

AI Capstone Project with Deep Learning (Coursera)

Apr 28th 2025
AI Capstone Project with Deep Learning (Coursera)
Course Auditing
Coursera
IBM
Categories
Data Science
Effort
Advanced
4 Weeks
1-4 Hours/Week
Languages
English
French
Portuguese
Russian
English
Spanish
AI Capstone Project with Deep Learning (Coursera)
In this capstone, learners will apply their deep learning knowledge and expertise to a real world challenge. They will use a library of their choice to develop and test a deep learning model. They will load and pre-process data for a real problem, build the model and validate [...]
IBM AI Engineering Professional Certificate
Deep Learning
AI
Artificial Intelligence
Knowledge
Deep Learning Models
Machine Learning Pipelines
PyTorch
Machine Learning
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Apr 28th 2025
Course Auditing
Coursera
IBM
Data Science
Advanced
4 Weeks
1-4 Hours/Week
41.00 EUR/month
English
French
Portuguese
Russian
English
Spanish

Data Visualization with Python (Coursera)

Apr 28th 2025
Data Visualization with Python (Coursera)
Course Auditing
Coursera
IBM
Categories
Data Science
Statistics & Data Analysis
Effort
Intermediate
5-12 Weeks
1-4 Hours/Week
Languages
English
Arabic
French
Portuguese
Italian
Vietnamese
German
Russian
English
Spanish
Persian
Data Visualization with Python (Coursera)
One of the key skills of a data scientist is the ability to tell a compelling story, visualizing data and findings in an approachable and stimulating way. Learning how to leverage a software tool to visualize data will also enable you to extract information, better understand the data, and [...]
Applied Data Science Specialization
IBM Data Science Professional Certificate
IBM Data Analyst Professional Certificate
Python Programming
Python
Data Visualization
Data Virtualization
Data Analysis
Data Science
Matplotlib
Geospatial
Coursera Plus
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Apr 28th 2025
Course Auditing
Coursera
IBM
Data Science
Statistics & Data Analysis
Intermediate
5-12 Weeks
1-4 Hours/Week
32.00 EUR/month
English
Arabic
French
Portuguese
Italian
Vietnamese
German
Russian
English
Spanish
Persian

Building Deep Learning Models with TensorFlow (Coursera)

Apr 28th 2025
Building Deep Learning Models with TensorFlow (Coursera)
Course Auditing
Coursera
IBM
Categories
Data Science
Effort
Intermediate
5-12 Weeks
1-4 Hours/Week
Languages
English
French
Portuguese
Russian
English
Spanish
Building Deep Learning Models with TensorFlow (Coursera)
The majority of data in the world is unlabeled and unstructured. Shallow neural networks cannot easily capture relevant structure in, for instance, images, sound, and textual data. Deep networks are capable of discovering hidden structures within this type of data. In this course you’ll use TensorFlow library to apply [...]
IBM AI Engineering Professional Certificate
TensorFlow
Deep Learning Models
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Apr 28th 2025
Course Auditing
Coursera
IBM
Data Science
Intermediate
5-12 Weeks
1-4 Hours/Week
41.00 EUR/month
English
French
Portuguese
Russian
English
Spanish

Introduction to Deep Learning & Neural Networks with Keras (Coursera)

Apr 28th 2025
Introduction to Deep Learning & Neural Networks with Keras (Coursera)
Course Auditing
Coursera
IBM
Categories
Data Science
Effort
Intermediate
5-12 Weeks
1-4 Hours/Week
Languages
English
French
Portuguese
Russian
English
Spanish
Introduction to Deep Learning & Neural Networks with Keras (Coursera)
Looking to start a career in Deep Learning? Look no further. This course will introduce you to the field of deep learning and help you answer many questions that people are asking nowadays, like what is deep learning, and how do deep learning models compare to artificial neural networks? [...]
IBM AI Engineering Professional Certificate
Neural Networks
Deep Learning
Keras
Artificial Intelligence
AI
Artificial Neural Networks
Machine Learning
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Apr 28th 2025
Course Auditing
Coursera
IBM
Data Science
Intermediate
5-12 Weeks
1-4 Hours/Week
42.00 EUR/month
English
French
Portuguese
Russian
English
Spanish

What is Data Science? (Coursera)

Apr 28th 2025
What is Data Science? (Coursera)
Course Auditing
Coursera
IBM
Categories
Data Science
Statistics & Data Analysis
Effort
Beginner
3 Weeks
1-4 Hours/Week
Languages
English
English
Arabic
French
Portuguese
Italian
Vietnamese
German
Russian
Spanish
What is Data Science? (Coursera)
The art of uncovering the insights and trends in data has been around since ancient times. The ancient Egyptians used census data to increase efficiency in tax collection and they accurately predicted the flooding of the Nile river every year. Since then, people working in data science have carved [...]
Introduction to Data Science Specialization
Key Technologies for Business Specialization
IBM AI Foundations for Business Specialization
IBM Data Science Professional Certificate
Data Science
Data Scientist
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Apr 28th 2025
Course Auditing
Coursera
IBM
Data Science
Statistics & Data Analysis
Beginner
3 Weeks
1-4 Hours/Week
33.00 EUR/month
English
English
Arabic
French
Portuguese
Italian
Vietnamese
German
Russian
Spanish

Visualizing Data with Python (edX)

Self Paced
Visualizing Data with Python (edX)
Course Auditing
EdX
IBM
Categories
CS: Programming
Statistics & Data Analysis
Effort
Intermediate
Self-Paced
1-4 Hours/Week
Languages
English
English
Visualizing Data with Python (edX)
Data visualization is the graphical representation of data in order to interactively and efficiently convey insights to clients, customers, and stakeholders in general. "A picture is worth a thousand words." We are all familiar with this expression. It especially applies when trying to explain the insights obtained from the [...]
Python Data Science Professional Certificate
IBM Data Science Professional Certificate edX
Data Analyst Professional Certificate
Python
Python Programming
Data Visualization
Matplotlib
Seaborn
Folium
Area Plots
Histogram
Bar Charts
Charts
Maps
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Self Paced
Course Auditing
EdX
IBM
CS: Programming
Statistics & Data Analysis
Intermediate
Self-Paced
1-4 Hours/Week
91.00 EUR
English
English

Introduction to Data Science (edX)

Self Paced
Introduction to Data Science (edX)
Course Auditing
EdX
IBM
Categories
Statistics & Data Analysis
Computer Science
Effort
Beginner
Self-Paced
5-10 Hours/Week
Languages
English
English
Introduction to Data Science (edX)
Learn about the world of data science first-hand from real data scientists. The art of uncovering the insights and trends in data has been around for centuries. The ancient Egyptians applied census data to increase efficiency in tax collection and they accurately predicted the flooding of the Nile river [...]
Data Science Foundations Professional Certificate
IBM Data Science Professional Certificate
Essential Technologies for Business Professional Certificate
Data Science
Data Scientist
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Self Paced
Course Auditing
EdX
IBM
Statistics & Data Analysis
Computer Science
Beginner
Self-Paced
5-10 Hours/Week
91.00 EUR
English
English

Metodologia de Ciência de Dados (Coursera)

Oct 2nd 2023
Metodologia de Ciência de Dados (Coursera)
Course Auditing
Coursera
IBM
Categories
Data Science
Statistics & Data Analysis
Effort
Beginner
3 Weeks
1-4 Hours/Week
Languages
Portuguese
Portuguese
Vietnamese
English
Persian
Metodologia de Ciência de Dados (Coursera)
Apesar do recente aumento do poder da computação e do acesso a dados nas últimas décadas, nossa capacidade de usar os dados em um processo de decisão é frequentemente perdida ou não maximizada. Não temos uma compreensão sólida da pergunta que está sendo feita e como aplicar os dados [...]
Methodology
Data Science
Data Science Methodology
Model Deployment
Data Modeling
Data Preparation
Sample Size Determination
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Oct 2nd 2023
Course Auditing
Coursera
IBM
Data Science
Statistics & Data Analysis
Beginner
3 Weeks
1-4 Hours/Week
32.00 EUR
Portuguese
Portuguese
Vietnamese
English
Persian