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Cloudswyft

Microsoft Future Ready: Introduction to Data Science

Cloudswyft via FutureLearn

Overview

This online course from Microsoft Future Ready and Cloudswyft explores the basics of data, statistics, and machine learning. You’ll discover the basic techniques used in data analysis such as data sorting and filtering, aggregation of data, and highlighting data. You’ll also be introduced to the basics of statistical analysis, wherein you’ll learn about measuring central tendency, variance, and standard deviation. Finally, you’ll learn about machine learning and the types of supervised and unsupervised learning techniques used in machine learning.

This course is designed for students and working professionals that aim to start their careers in the analytics, data science, and machine learning skills industries and sectors.

Syllabus

  • Course Introduction
    • About this Course
    • Becoming a Successful Data Scientist
    • An Introduction to Data
    • Analysing and Visualising Data
    • Wrapping up the Week
  • Statistics and Machine Learning
    • An Introduction to Statistics
    • Introduction to Machine Learning
    • Wrapping up the Course

Taught by

Daniela Piedrahita

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