Data Science Essentials

About this course

Demand for data science talent is exploding. Develop your career as a data scientist, as you explore essential skills and principles with experts from MIT and Microsoft.

In this data science course, you will learn key concepts in data acquisition, preparation, exploration, and visualization. Plus, look at examples of how to build a cloud data science solution using Azure Machine Learning, R, and Python.

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What you’ll learn

  • Explore the data science process
  • Probability and statistics in data science
  • Data exploration and visualization
  • Data ingestion, cleansing, and transformation
  • Introduction to machine learning

Meet the instructors

  • bio for Dr. Steve Elston

    Dr. Steve Elston

    Managing DirectorQuantia Analytics, LLC

  • bio for Cynthia Rudin

    Cynthia Rudin

    Associate ProfessorMIT and Duke

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