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Analyzing Social Media Data in Python
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- 200
In this course, youll learn how to collect Twitter data and analyze Twitter text, networks, and geographical origin.
Data Manipulation
Follow short videos led by expert instructors and then practice what you’ve learned with interactive exercises in your browser.
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In this course, youll learn how to collect Twitter data and analyze Twitter text, networks, and geographical origin.
Data Manipulation
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Learn how to monitor, diagnose, and optimize Azure applications using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, and Log Analytics.
Cloud
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Prepare for your next statistics interview by reviewing concepts like conditional probabilities, A/B testing, the bias-variance tradeoff, and more.
Probability & Statistics
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Work with risk-factor return series, study their empirical properties, and make estimates of value-at-risk.
Applied Finance
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Learn how to use conditional formatting with your data through built-in options and by creating custom formulas.
Data Manipulation
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Learn to import, manipulate, and transform data in Java using the Tablesaw library. Work with CSV files, tabular structures, and complex JSON formats.
Software Development
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Learn how to use PostgreSQL to handle time series analysis effectively and apply these techniques to real-world data.
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Learn to analyze and visualize network data with the igraph package and create interactive network plots with threejs.
Probability & Statistics
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Leverage tidyr and purrr packages in the tidyverse to generate, explore, and evaluate machine learning models.
Machine Learning
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Learn how to reduce training times for large language models with Accelerator and Trainer for distributed training
Artificial Intelligence
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Learn to use the Census API to work with demographic and socioeconomic data.
Exploratory Data Analysis
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Learn to develop R packages and boost your coding skills. Discover package creation benefits, practice with dev tools, and create a unit conversion package.
Software Development
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Learn how to tune your models hyperparameters to get the best predictive results.
Machine Learning
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Master RAG with Weaviate! Embed text and images for retrieval, and experiment with vector, BM25, and hybrid search.
Artificial Intelligence
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In this course youll learn how to create static and interactive dashboards using flexdashboard and shiny.
Reporting
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Explore a range of programming paradigms, including imperative and declarative, procedural, functional, and object-oriented programming.
Software Development
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Step into the role of CFO and learn how to advise a board of directors on key metrics while building a financial forecast.
Applied Finance
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Discover how to talk to your data using text-to-query AI agents with MongoDB and LangGraph.
Artificial Intelligence
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Create a healthcare AI agent using Haystack, an open-source framework for orchestrating LLMs and external components.
Artificial Intelligence
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Specify and fit GARCH models to forecast time-varying volatility and value-at-risk.
Applied Finance
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Learn how to create and assess measurement models used to confirm the structure of a scale or questionnaire.
Probability & Statistics
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Learn how to run big data analysis using Spark and the sparklyr package in R, and explore Spark MLIb in just 4 hours.
Data Engineering
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In this course youll learn how to use data science for several common marketing tasks.
Machine Learning
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Practice your Shiny skills while building some fun Shiny apps for real-life scenarios!
Reporting
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Diagnose, visualize and treat missing data with a range of imputation techniques with tips to improve your results.
Data Manipulation
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Learn to use the Bioconductor package limma for differential gene expression analysis.
Probability & Statistics
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Gain an overview of all the skills and tools needed to excel in Natural Language Processing in R.
Machine Learning
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Learn the bag of words technique for text mining with R.
Machine Learning
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Explore association rules in market basket analysis with R by analyzing retail data and creating movie recommendations.
Data Manipulation
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You unlock the foundational concepts of generative AI by exploring the differences between AI, ML, and gen AI.
Cloud
Data science is an area of expertise focused on gaining information from data. Using programming skills, scientific methods, algorithms, and more, data scientists analyze data to form actionable insights.
You’ll need to learn a programming language such as Python or R and master the principles of math and statistics. Knowledge of data analysis methods and data science tools is also essential. There are many ways to learn data science. As well as formal means of education, such as a degree or university study, there are plenty of other resources to help you learn at your own pace. As well as online courses and tutorials, there are books, videos, and more.
As well as knowledge of mathematics and statistics, data scientists need programming skills in languages such as Python, R, and SQL. Additionally, data science requires the ability to work with large data sets, knowledge of data visualization, data wrangling, and database management. Skills in machine learning and deep learning can also be useful.
In a professional capacity, almost every industry can use data science to some degree. Healthcare organizations use data science to detect and cure diseases, while finance companies use it to detect and prevent fraud. All kinds of industries use data science for marketing, such as building recommendation systems and analyzing customer churn.
Yes, data science is among the fastest-growing sectors in the US and worldwide. It’s also one of the best-paid careers out there. According to data from Payscale, experience data scientists earn an average of $97,609 and have a satisfaction rating of four stars out of five in the US.
There are a few things to consider here. First, data science degrees can be competitive to get onto, often requiring consistently high grades. Similarly, many of the skills required for data science require a lot of study and patience. It can take several months to master all of the necessary basics, as well as a lot of practical experience to secure an entry-level position.
Yes, you’ll need some coding experience in languages such as Python, R, SQL, Java, and C/C++. However, due to its relatively simple syntax, Python programming language is often the preferred choice among newcomers.
For a person with no prior coding experience and/or mathematical background, it can typically take 7 to 12 months of intensive studies to be at the level of an entry-level data scientist. However, it is important to remember that learning only the theoretical basis of data science may not make you a real data scientist.
Once you’ve mastered the foundations of data science, you can then specialize in a variety of areas, including machine learning, artificial intelligence, big data analysis, business analytics and intelligence, data mining, and more.