Data Science

The demand for data practitioners has increased dramatically over the past few years. Data Science is continually ranked as one of the most in demand professions and the need for skilled professionals to manage and leverage insights from data is clearer than ever before. The curriculum taught in this Data Science Certificate Program is designed to meet the expanding needs for data professionals at all levels.

This program covers a wide array of topics in data science including data-driven discovery and prediction, data engineering at scale (inspecting, cleaning, transforming, and modeling data), structured and unstructured data, computational statistics, pattern recognition, data mining, data visualization, databases, SQL, Python, and machine learning.

Who Should Enroll

This program is intended for professionals in a variety of industries and job functions who are looking to help their organization understand and leverage the massive amounts of diverse data they collect. Others who would benefit from this program include: data engineers, data analysts, computer scientists, business analysts, database administrators, researchers, and statisticians.

Program Benefits

• Learn from industry experts how to utilize a combination of science, art & business techniques to deliver new insights and competitive intelligence
• Describe the phases of the analytics lifecycle
• Utilize a variety of statistical and computer science tools and techniques to analyze data
• Describe and use the typical tools and technologies required to model and analyze large (big) datasets
• Explain the use of typical tools to explore data (R, STATISTICA, Hadoop, etc.)
• Utilize an inquisitive “hacker” mentality to uncover new meaning from existing data
• Effectively design, model and manage databases
• Describe and utilize unstructured and structured data sets leveraging text analytics tools.
• Define requirements, develop an architecture, and implement a data warehouse plan

Eligibility and Requirements

Apply to become a candidate for the program: A Declaration of Candidacy is required to establish candidacy in this program. Complete the application and pay the application and candidacy fee of $125 (non-refundable). Learn more about the benefits of becoming a candidate. Candidacy is not required to enroll into individual course in a program.

A candidate in the program is awarded a certificate upon the successful completion of five (5) required courses and elective courses totaling 15 units, each with a letter grade of “C” or better. All requirements must be completed within five (5) years after the student enrolls in their first course. To receive the Certified Digital Certificate after the completing all the program requirements, students must submit the Request for Certificate to initiate the certificate audit process. Students not pursuing the certificate are welcome to take as many individual courses as they wish.

Some courses may be listed as electives in multiple certificates, students may use a maximum of two courses to fulfill a certificate requirement between two programs.

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