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Get an introduction to data science in this course designed for aspiring professionals in project management and leadership.
Syllabus
Introduction
- Exploring data science
- A multidisciplinary practice with multiple meanings
- Using statistics and software
- Uncovering insights and creating knowledge
- Making connections with relational databases
- Getting data into warehouses using ETL
- Letting go of the past with NoSQL
- Addressing a big data problem
- Keeping things simple with structured data
- Sharing semistructured data
- Collecting unstructured data
- Sifting through big garbage
- Starting out with descriptive statistics
- Understanding probability
- Finding a correlation
- Correlation does not imply causation
- Combing techniques for predictive analytics
- Harness the power of questions
- Gold panning
- Focus on reasoning
- Test your reasoning
- Run question meetings
- Identify question types
- Organize your questions
- Create question trees
- Find new questions
- Clarify key terms
- Root out assumptions
- Find errors
- Challenge evidence
- See other causes
- Uncover misleading statistics
- Highlight missing data
- Defining a story
- Spinning a story
- Weaving a story together
- Using story structure
- Introducing plot
- Presenting conflict
- Defining details
- Reporting isn't telling
- Knowing your audience
- Believing what you say
- Working with data
- Introducing visuals
- Eliminating distractions
- Using metaphors
- Setting a vision
- Motivating the audience
- Next steps and additional resources
Taught by
Doug Rose
Reviews
5.0 rating, based on 2 Class Central reviews
4.7 rating at LinkedIn Learning based on 83 ratings
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The course was everything you said it would be, fun but a lot of work. And it was! I enjoyed the web-labs because they were a lot of fun and easy to understand. And the answers were usually somewhere in the text. I also liked the assignments that re…
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This course is a great introduction to data science. The concepts are explained clearly and in a simple way, making it easy for beginners to understand. It helped me learn the basics of data science, its applications, and key terminology. I would recommend this course to anyone starting their data science journey.