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This specialization covers various essential topics such as fundamental tools, data collection, data understanding, and data preprocessing. This specialization is designed for beginners, with a focus on practical exercises and case studies to reinforce learning. By mastering the skills and techniques covered in these courses, students will be better equipped to handle the challenges of real-world data analysis. The final project will give students an opportunity to apply what they have learned and demonstrate their mastery of the subject.

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Five courses

Fundamental Tools of Data Wrangling

(5 hours)
Data wrangling is a crucial step in the data analysis process. This course is designed to provide participants with essential skills and knowledge to effectively manipulate, clean, and analyze data. Participants will be introduced to the fundamental tools commonly used in data wrangling, including Python, data structures, NumPy, and pandas.

Data Collection and Integration

(0 hours)
The "Data Collection and Integration" course equips students with techniques for gathering data from diverse sources, including files, databases, web pages, and APIs. Participants gain experience collecting and integrating data for further processing and analysis, utilizing tools like Pandas, Beautiful Soup, and SQL to handle real-life datasets and address data integration challenges.

Data Understanding and Visualization

(0 hours)
The "Data Understanding and Visualization" course provides students with the statistical concepts and data visualization techniques needed to comprehend and analyze datasets effectively.

Data Processing and Manipulation

(0 hours)
The "Data Processing and Manipulation" course provides students with a comprehensive understanding of various data processing and manipulation concepts and tools. Participants will learn how to handle missing values, detect outliers, perform sampling and dimension reduction, apply scaling and discretization techniques, and explore data cube and pivot table operations.

Data Wrangling with Python Project

(0 hours)
The "Data Wrangling Project" course gives students a chance to use what they've learned in the specialization on a real-life data wrangling project of their choice. Students will follow the data wrangling process step by step, from finding data sources to cleaning and putting data together, to make a good dataset that is ready to be analyzed.

Learning objectives

  • Define techniques and methods for collecting data from various sources including files, web, databases, etc.
  • Identify statistical analysis and visualization techniques that can be used to gain insights into the data.
  • Calculate and apply techniques for data preprocessing such as dealing with missing values, outliers, sampling, normalization, and discretization.

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