Program in Data Science

Take your data analysis skills to the next level with our fully online Program in Data Science!

New to data analysis? Then your first step is getting those skills!

Level-up your data analysis skill set with our practical, hands-on courses. Learn from data science practitioners in order to perform advanced data wrangling, data mining and statistical modeling, and leverage machine learning algorithms to derive meaning from large and complex data sets with Python.

Customize your program by choosing the courses most closely aligned with your experience and career goals, and create a data science project of your own by completing the optional capstone course.

By completing this program, you will be able to:

• Apply statistics and probability essentials to manipulate and preprocess data for feature transformation, dimensionality reduction and model evaluation.
• Utilize essentials of linear algebra and multivariate calculus in machine learning to preprocess, transform and evaluate a variety of features and predictors for data models.
• Employ machine learning algorithms and objective functions for optimization experiments and predictive modeling, such as cost/objective, likelihood, error and gradient descent.
• Master essential Python programming skills for data scientists.
• Use a multitude of supporting programming languages and tools for data analytics methodologies and procedures.
• Demonstrate proficiency with essential data analytics methodologies and procedures such as data wrangling and preprocessing.
• Create data visualizations and communicate insights to stakeholders.
• Perform experiments for continuous variable prediction and discrete variable prediction, and make predictions using machine learning algorithms.