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Data Science Essentials

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This course is part of the Microsoft Professional Program Certificate in Data Science and Microsoft Professional Program in Artificial Intelligence.

Demand for data science talent is exploding. Develop your career as a data scientist, as you explore essential skills and principles with experts from Duke University and Microsoft.

In this data science course, you will learn key concepts in data acquisition, preparation, exploration, and visualization taught alongside practical application oriented examples such as how to build a cloud data science solution using Microsoft Azure Machine Learning platform, or with R, and Python on Azure stack.

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Rating 3.1 based on 6 ratings
Length 6 weeks
Effort 3 - 4 hours per week
Starts Apr 1 (317 weeks ago)
Cost $99
From Microsoft via edX
Instructors Dr. Steve Elston, Cynthia Rudin, Graeme Malcolm, Steve Elston
Download Videos On all desktop and mobile devices
Language English
Subjects Programming Data Science
Tags Computer Science Data Analysis & Statistics

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expect on learning either

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Gives basic understanding of statistics for data science using Azure ML.

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Very disappointed, I dropped the course after 2 weeks when they started talking about Azure again and again, I noticed that something is not going right.

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Rating 3.1 based on 6 ratings
Length 6 weeks
Effort 3 - 4 hours per week
Starts Apr 1 (317 weeks ago)
Cost $99
From Microsoft via edX
Instructors Dr. Steve Elston, Cynthia Rudin, Graeme Malcolm, Steve Elston
Download Videos On all desktop and mobile devices
Language English
Subjects Programming Data Science
Tags Computer Science Data Analysis & Statistics

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