Data Science Certificate
PDA 001 – Introduction to Data Science
- History of data analytics and data science
- Introduction to data science and modeling.
- Data a science principle.
- Foundation of exploring data through computing and statistical analysis
- Structure and applications of probability statistics for decision making.
- Regression analysis and classification trees, and Graphical Visualization
PDA 002 – Introduction to Programming
- Introduction to the Python language, the design, analysis, and implementation of fundamental data structures in Python.
- Common algorithms that operate on data structures.
- Data querying and processing
- Tableau and matplotlib in Python and scikit-learn library.
PDA 003- Data Science Techniques
- Data Concepts, data preparation
- Data Architecture
- Data Storage and Serving.
- Skills gained in this course will enable you to visualize and analyze data and build interacting data dashboards.
- Data visualization provides the graphical representation of that data.
- Dashboards for data analysis and story telling with data.
PDA 004 – Data Science tools.
- Basics of Machine Learning, What and why Machine Learning, Applications of Machine Learning Types of Machine Learning.
- Fundamental principles of data analytics, and machine learning techniques such as neural network, deep learning, and reinforcement learning as well as NLP andtext analysis.
- Basic algorithms, such as regression, decision trees, and Nearest Neighbours, designing a machine learning experiment which includes cross validation and evaluation metrics.
- Data preparation and exploration, defining the problem, and choosing theappropriate algorithm.
PDA 005 – Data Mining and Prescriptive Analysis
- Introduction predictive modelling techniques as well as related statistical and visualization tools for data mining.
- Common machine learning techniques that are focused on predictive outcomes.
- Evaluation of the performance of the prediction models and how to improve them through time.
- Data preparation and exploration, defining the problem, and choosing the appropriate algorithm.
- Machine learning tools for data visualizations.
PDA 006 – Capstone Project in Data Science
- You will apply your data visualization and reporting skills through this project-based Data Science course.
- You will be able to apply open data to complete Data Science projects.
- With the skills gained in this course, you will be able to formalize problems, enumerate assumptions, design experiments, evaluate outcomes, and present findings to help in high level Decision making.