Data Science
Data allows us to gain important insights and make useful predictions, helping individuals, organizations, and businesses devise strategy and drive decision-making on everything from elections and product design to marketing and finance.
Demonstrate your ability to solve problems, contribute insights, and offer solutions by earning a professional graduate certificate in data science.
What will I learn?
You will gain understanding, knowledge, and fluency in:
- Key facets of data investigation, including data wrangling, cleaning, sampling, management, exploratory analysis, regression and classification, prediction, and data communication.
- Fundamental concepts of data computation, such as data structure, algorithms, parallel computing, simulation, and analysis.
- Focused subject areas, such as game theory, statistical quality control, exponential smoothing, seasonally adjusted trend analysis, or data visualization.
Is this right for me?
This professional graduate certificate is for individuals currently working in or aiming to deepen their skills and expertise for these types of roles:
- Data scientist
- Business analyst
- Information architect
- Information technology manager
- Information systems manager
- Predictive analytics developer
Courses
| Required Course | |
| DS101 | Intro to Data Science |
| DS102 | RDBMS Design/ SQL |
| DS103 | Machine Learning |
| DS104 | Data Visualization |
| DS105 | Applied Statistics |
| DS106 | Big-data, Hadoop, Map Reduce |
| DS107 | Analytics with R/SAS |
| Electives Courses | |
| DS201 | Quantitative Methods in Business Analytics |
| DS202 | Product and Project management in Data Science |
| DS203 | Projects in Social Media, Web, Marketing, Healthcare, Utilities and Financial Domains |
Will all the courses listed be offered every year?
The required courses are offered, but the elective offerings do change slightly from year to year due to instructor availability and new offerings.
Certificate requirements:
- Take all courses for graduate credit.
- Earn at least a B in all courses.
- Complete all courses within three years.
Courses taken before the 2013-14 academic year do not apply toward the certificate.
Monitor your progress
You may monitor your progress by logging in to your account and choosing the Certificate Course Tracker and Request Form. This form will confirm the courses that count toward the certificate, the courses for which you are currently registered, and the courses that you’ve completed.
Requesting the certificate
When you have completed the final certificate course with the required grade, you may request your certificate by logging in to your account and completing the Certificate Course Tracker and Request Form.
After your request is reviewed and approved, you will receive an e-mail with a link to your electronic certificate, which you may print. Also, certificates, printed on parchment paper and suitable for framing, are mailed out at the end of the fall, spring, and summer terms.
Have questions?
We are happy to answer general questions about the certificate
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