For a business to thrive in our data-driven world, it must treat data as one of its most important assets. Data is crucial for understanding where the business is and where it’s headed. Not only can data reveal insights, it can also inform—by guiding decisions and influencing day-to-day operations. This calls for a robust workforce of professionals who can analyze, understand, manipulate, and present data within an effective and repeatable process framework. In other words, the business world needs data science practitioners. This course will enable you to bring value to the business by putting data science concepts into practice.

In this course, you will implement data science techniques in order to address business issues.
You will:
• Use data science principles to address business issues.
• Apply the extract, transform, and load (ETL) process to prepare datasets.
• Use multiple techniques to analyze data and extract valuable insights.
• Design a machine learning approach to address business issues.
• Train, tune, and evaluate classification models.
• Train, tune, and evaluate regression and forecasting models.
• Train, tune, and evaluate clustering models.
• Finalize a data science project by presenting models to an audience, putting models into production, and monitoring model performance.

This course is designed for business professionals who leverage data to address business issues and want to learn how to more effectively extract insights from their work and leverage that insight in addressing business issues, thereby bringing greater value to the business.

Lesson 1: Addressing Business Issues with Data Science
Topic A: Initiate a Data Science Project
Topic B: Formulate a Data Science Problem

Lesson 2: Extracting, Transforming, and Loading Data
Topic A: Extract Data
Topic B: Transform Data
Topic C: Load Data

Lesson 3: Analyzing Data
Topic A: Examine Data
Topic B: Explore the Underlying Distribution of Data
Topic C: Use Visualizations to Analyze Data
Topic D: Preprocess Data

Lesson 4: Designing a Machine Learning Approach
Topic A: Identify Machine Learning Concepts
Topic B: Test a Hypothesis

Lesson 5: Developing Classification Models
Topic A: Train and Tune Classification Models
Topic B: Evaluate Classification Models

Lesson 6: Developing Regression Models
Topic A: Train and Tune Regression Models
Topic B: Evaluate Regression Models

Lesson 7: Developing Clustering Models
Topic A: Train and Tune Clustering Models
Topic B: Evaluate Clustering Models

Lesson 8: Finalizing a Data Science Project
Topic A: Communicate Results to Stakeholders
Topic B: Demonstrate Models in a Web App
Topic C: Implement and Test Production Pipelines