CertNexus Certified Data Science Practitioner Professional Certificate

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Learn Path Description

Data Science professionals earn 25% more than average professional starting salaries. The field of Data Science has topped the Linked In Emerging Jobs list for the last 3 years with a projected growth of 28% annually and the World Economic Forum lists Data Analytics and Scientists as the top emerging job for 2022. Data can reveal insights and inform business—by guiding decisions and influencing day-to-day operations. This specialization will teach learners how to analyze, understand, manipulate, and present data within an effective and repeatable process framework and will enable you to bring value to the business by putting data science concepts into practice. This course is designed for business professionals that want to learn how to more effectively extract insights from their work and leverage that insight in addressing business issues, thereby bringing greater value to the business. The typical student in this course will have several years of experience with computing technology, including some aptitude in computer programming. Certified Data Science Practitioner (CDSP) will prepare learners for the CertNexus CDSP certification exam. To complete your journey to the CDSP Certification Complete the Coursera Certified Data Science Practitioner Professional Certificate. Review the CDSP Exam Blueprint. Purchase your CDSP Exam Voucher. Register for your CDSP Exam.

Skills You Will Gain

Courses In This Learning Path

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Total Duration

7 hours

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Level

Intermediate

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Certifications

Address Business Issues with Data Science

This course is for business professionals who want to know how to identify a business problem that is suitable for a data-science project and how to apply the data science process.

This course is designed to give students experience in business settings and a deep understanding of the fundamental concepts of data science, such as types of data, roles in data science, the data science lifecycle and the challenges and benefits of data science.

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Total Duration

15 hours

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Intermediate

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Certifications

Extract, Transform, and Load Data

This course is for data professionals and business people who want to learn the first technical stage of data science, known as Extract, Transform and Load (or ETL).

Learners will learn how to collect data from multiple sources to make it available for transformation and cleaning. Next, they will dig into the collected data sets to clean and prepare it to be loaded into their final destination. The course will end with learners loading data into their final destination to allow them to analyze and model it. This course is designed for students who have some experience with programming and data manipulation.

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Total Duration

26 hours

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Beginner

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Certifications

Analyze Data to Answer Questions

This is the fifth course of the Google Data Analytics Certificate. These courses will give you the skills necessary to be able to apply for introductory-level jobs as a data analyst. This course will cover the "analyze” phase of data analysis. To make sense of the data that you have collected, you will take what you have learned up to this point and use it in your analysis. To help you see and understand your data differently, you'll be able to use spreadsheets and SQL to organize it. To achieve business goals, you'll also learn how to do complex calculations with your data. As you perform your analysis, you'll be able to use functions and formulas as well as SQL queries. You will be guided by current Google data analysts to help you use the best tools and resources to complete common data analyst tasks.

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Total Duration

29 hours

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Intermediate

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Certifications

Train Machine Learning Models

This course is for professionals who want to understand the basic concepts of machine learning. They will also learn how to test hypothesises using experiments, train, tune, and evaluate models that use algorithms to solve clustering, forecasting, classification, and regression problems.

This course requires a strong background in computing technology and programming skills.

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Total Duration

12 hours

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Intermediate

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Finalize a Data Science Project

This course is designed for business professionals who want to enhance their data science skills and effectively communicate their findings to stakeholders. It focuses on gathering data from previous stages of a data science project and presenting it in a meaningful way. The course covers various topics including communicating model results, creating web apps to demonstrate machine learning models, testing and automating model tuning, deployment, and training. It assumes that the student has completed prior courses in the CDSP Professional Certificate Program and possesses some programming skills. By the end of this course, learners will have gained a deeper understanding of artificial intelligence in data science and how to apply it to their projects.

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