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Overview

Duration

8 hours

Total fee

Free

Mode of learning

Online

Difficulty level

Beginner

Official Website

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Credential

Certificate

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Highlights

  • Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
  • 100% online Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
  • Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
  • Beginner Level
  • Approx. 8 hours to complete
  • English Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, German, Russian, English, Spanish
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  • The art of uncovering the insights and trends in data has been around since ancient times. The ancient Egyptians used census data to increase efficiency in tax collection and they accurately predicted the flooding of the Nile river every year. Since then, people working in data science have carved out a unique and distinct field for the work they do. This field is data science. In this course, we will meet some data science practitioners and we will get an overview of what data science is today.
  • This course is part of multiple programs
  • This course can be applied to multiple Specializations or Professional Certificates programs. Completing this course will count towards your learning in any of the following programs:
  • Introduction to Data Science Specialization
  • Key Technologies for Business Specialization
  • IBM Data Science Professional Certificate
  • IBM AI Foundations for Business Specialization
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Curriculum

Defining Data Science and What Data Scientists Do

What is Data Science?

Fundamentals of Data Science

The Many Paths to Data Science

Advice for New Data Scientists

A day in the Life of a Data Scientist

Old problems, new problems, Data Science solutions

Data Science Topics and Algorithms

Cloud for Data Science

Course Syllabus

Professional Certificate Career Support

Lesson Summary

Lesson Summary

Data Science: The Sexiest Job in the 21st Century

What Makes Someone a Data Scientist?

Data Science Topics

Foundations of Big Data

What is Hadoop?

How Big Data is Driving Digital Transformation

Data Science Skills & Big Data

Data Scientists at New York University

What's the difference?

Neural Networks and Deep Learning

Applications of Machine Learning

Lesson Summary

Lesson Summary

Exercise: Identifying objects in images with IBM Watson

Data Mining

Regression

Data Science in Business

How Data Science is saving lives

How Should Companies Get Started in Data Science?

Applications of Data Science

How Can Someone Become a Data Scientist?

Recruiting for Data Science

Careers in Data Science

High School Students and Data Science Careers

Lesson Summary

Lesson Summary

Lesson Summary

IBM Digital Badge

The Final Deliverable

The Report Structure

Final Exam

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Parth Shah
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Learning Experience: The course, I opted for was for data science basics understanding and concept summarization. It was very well-designed and easy to understand. It has developed my skills in data science. The pros of the course are easy understanding of data, the cons are not as much but you can't change the language to your mother tongue.
Faculty: The faculty was great and their approach is quite simple and nice. The quality of the lectures is just awesome. It helps with practical knowledge as well. There was no live session provided. The course is designed in a very easy manner. Resources are provided within the course and the structure is from beginner to advanced in great method. Assignments are to be given and a minimal score of 80% is required.
Course Support: It helped me understand data science and was a great start to data science and its various fields. I would recommend to opt this course if you are interested.
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Sejal Srivastava
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Learning Experience: The course had the clear understanding
Faculty: The faculty members were very encouraging and their way of teaching were explanatory. Course was well defined by the professors and professionals.
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Sabyasachi Basu Roy
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Learning Experience: Content was easy to understand, platform was user-friendly, important topics covered, relatable assignments and lab sessions
Faculty: There was no specific faculty. It was material based course, which provided videos and reading materials regarding the topics Well structured materials (videos and reading topics), easy to understand. Covered all the topics which are applicable to practical projects on Data Science
Course Support: well
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Ketan Agrawal
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Learning Experience: Content is in good form like the recorded videos and explanation. But it can be better if we get some quick response regrading doubt clearing session. It is all about great learning experience with this course.
Faculty: Faculty's are well trained and have industrial experience. And they share some there experience with which was great Resources are in good form and quizes are at there best
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Saidulu
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Learning Experience: I have learned fundamentals of data science, Many paths to data science, Advice for new data scientist, Cloud for data science, Algorithms, What makes someone as data scientist, roles of data scientist. It is nice experience to learn the course, which will helpful for who wants to be a data scientist.
Faculty: I liked the faculty approach towards learners. I love the way of teaching, the way of taking assignments. It is 3 weeks course and it is offered by IBM. and I have secured 86 percentage. I have enjoyed the course.
Course Support: Yes, it was motivate to become a data scientist.
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