Data Science for Executives Professional Certificate

What you will learn:
- The history of data science, tangible illustrations of how data science and analytics are used in decision making across multiple sectors today, and expert opinion on what the future might hold
- A practical understanding of the fundamental methods used by data scientists including; statistical thinking and conditional probability, machine learning and algorithms, and effective approaches for data visualization
- The major components of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the potential of IoT to totally transform the way in which we live and work in the not-to-distant future
- How data scientists are using natural language processing (NLP), audio and video processing to extract useful information from books, scientific articles, twitter feeds, voice recordings, YouTube videos and much more

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Enabling Technologies for Data Science and Analytics: The Internet of Things (edX)

Discover the relationship between Big Data and the Internet of Things (IoT). The Internet of Things is rapidly growing. It is predicted that more than 25 billion devices will be connected by 2020. In this data science course, you will learn about the major components of the Internet of [...]

Statistical Thinking for Data Science and Analytics (edX)

Learn how statistics plays a central role in the data science approach. This statistics and data analysis course will pave the statistical foundation for our discussion on data science. You will learn how data scientists exercise statistical thinking in designing data collection, derive insights from visualizing data, obtain supporting [...]

Machine Learning for Data Science and Analytics (edX)

Learn the principles of machine learning and the importance of algorithms. Machine Learning is a growing field that is used when searching the web, placing ads, credit scoring, stock trading and for many other applications.