Building a Data Science Team by Coursera

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Duration

6 hours

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Delivery Method

Online

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Available on

Limited Access

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Accessibility

Desktop, Laptop

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Language

English

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Subtitles

English

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Level

Intermediate

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Teaching Type

Self Paced

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Video Content

6 hours

Course Description

Data science is a team sport. It is your responsibility as a data scientist executive to organize and manage the team. This course will teach you how to find the right people for your data science team. We'll also show you how to organize them so that they feel empowered and succeed. Finally, we'll discuss how to manage your growing team.

This course is focused and will quickly get you up-to-speed on how to build and manage a data science team. We wanted to make it as easy as possible without sacrificing any important content. So that you can concentrate on leading your team and driving it forward, we've left out the technical details. You will be able to answer the questions after completing this course. 1. Data scientist, data engineer and data scientist are the roles that make up the data science team. What the data science team is like in relation to other departments within an organization What are the expected qualifications for different members of the data science team 4. Questions that are relevant to data scientists being interviewed How to manage the team's onboarding process 6. How to lead data science teams to success How to motivate and empower data science teams. Course cover image by JaredZammit. Creative Commons BY -SA https://flic.kr/p/5vuWZz

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Skills You Will Gain

What You Will Learn

Describe the various roles that make up a Data Science team

Manage a Data Science team onboarding

Know relevant questions for interviewing data scientists

Understand how to encourage and empower Data Science teams

Course Instructors

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Jeff Leek, PhD

Associate Professor, Biostatistics

Jeff Leek is an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and co-editor of the Simply Statistics Blog. He received his Ph.D. in Biostatistics ...
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Brian Caffo

Professor, Biostatistics

Brian Caffo is the instructor for this course
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Roger D. Peng, PhD

Associate Professor, Biostatistics

Roger D. Peng is a Professor of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a Co-Editor of the Simply Statistics blog. He received his Ph.D. in Statistics from the Unive...

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