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Leo Porter, Ilkay Altintas, Alon Orlitsky, Sanjoy Dasgupta, Yoav Freund, Rav Ahuja, and Joseph Santarcangelo

Excel in Data Science, one of the hottest fields in tech today. Learn how to gain new insights from big data by asking the right questions, manipulating data sets and visualizing your findings in compelling ways.

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Excel in Data Science, one of the hottest fields in tech today. Learn how to gain new insights from big data by asking the right questions, manipulating data sets and visualizing your findings in compelling ways.

In this MicroMasters program, you will develop a well-rounded understanding of the mathematical and computational tools that form the basis of data science and how to use those tools to make data-driven business recommendations.

This MicroMasters program encompasses two sides of data science learning: the mathematical and the applied.

Mathematical courses cover probability, statistics, and machine learning. The applied courses cover the use of specific toolkit and languages such as Python, Numpy, Matplotlib, pandas and Scipy, the Jupyter notebook environment and Apache Spark to delve into real world data.

You will learn how to collect, clean and analyse big data using popular open source software will allow you to perform large-scale data analysis and present your findings in a convincing, visual way. When combined with expertise in a particular type of business, it will make you a highly desirable employee.

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What's inside

Four courses

Python for Data Science

(90 hours)
In the information age, data is ubiquitous. Within this data are answers to compelling questions across many societal domains (politics, business, science, etc.). But if you had access to a large dataset, would you be able to find the answers you seek?

Probability and Statistics in Data Science using Python

(110 hours)
The job of a data scientist is to glean knowledge from datasets. Reasoning about uncertainty is inherent in the analysis of noisy data. Probability and Statistics provide the mathematical foundation for such reasoning.

Machine Learning Fundamentals

(90 hours)
Do you want to build systems that learn from experience? Or exploit data to create simple predictive models of the world? This course will teach you a variety of supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms, and the theory behind those algorithms.

Big Data Analytics Using Spark

(105 hours)
In data science, data is considered "big" if it exceeds the memory capacity of a standard laptop or workstation. Analyzing large datasets necessitates the use of a cluster of computers, which necessitates the use of distributed file systems like Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) and computational models like Hadoop, MapReduce, and Spark.

Learning objectives

  • How to load and clean real-world data
  • How to make reliable statistical inferences from noisy data
  • How to use machine learning to learn models for data
  • How to visualize complex data
  • How to use apache spark to analyze data that does not fit within the memory of a single computer

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