Gain the Python skills you need to start and grow your career as a data scientist. You’ll learn to create data visualizations, perform web-scraping, build machine learning algorithms, and much more. By the end, you’ll be able to analyze datasets, help make business decisions, and use machine learning to solve complex problems.
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- 9 months (10 hrs/wk)
- Self paced
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Principal Data Scientist @ICFPath overview
In this path, you’ll learn how to master mandatory data scientist technical skills, including object-oriented and functional programming with Python, libraries like scikit-learn, Matplotlib, NumPy, and pandas. You’ll also master web scraping and SQL queries, deep learning and machine learning, and predictive analysis. To help you stand out from other candidates, we included concepts such as the UNIX command line, Git, and GitHub to develop efficient collaboration.
Best of all, you’ll learn by doing — you’ll write code and get feedback directly in the browser. You’ll apply your skills to several guided projects involving realistic business scenarios to build your portfolio and prepare for your next interview.
Key skills
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How to program with Python to perform complex statistical analysis of large datasets
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How to perform SQL queries and web-scraping to explore and extract data from databases and websites
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How to build insightful data visualizations to tell stories
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How to automate machine learning algorithms and build predictive modeling processes
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