30 Courses and Certifications

UW Washington Courses & Certifications 2024

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  • Estd. Year: 1861
  • Total Faculty: 8159
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Attending a Networking Event

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Attending a Networking Event

The programme Attending a Networking Event certification course has been designed to help students elevate and work on their pitch so that they can make better connections by making short speeches. Continuous feedback and practice sessions will be provided by experts so that candidates can improve their vocabulary. Attending a Networking Event certification also lays emphasis on the way to manage networking events. The ways and techniques to make an informal meeting more impactful and lasting will be covered during the session. 

Attending a Networking Event training will provide participants with practice classes to work on their vocabulary and improve their pronunciation. The methods of proper and appropriate dressing for any event are the primary focus of the networking programme. The course will help students find events related to networking to make an impact. The course will help the participants to add new people to their existing circle. The ways to deliver and create an elevator pitch are also an aim of this course.

EdX gives two varied tracks to join this self-paced course, namely, audit and verified. In the former mode, the students will have access to the course only for a limited duration and in the latter, they will have unlimited access and a certificate of completion. 

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8 Weeks
Beginner
Free
Conducting an Informational Interview

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Conducting an Informational Interview

The Professional Certificate in English for Business Networking is a four-part series for the interested candidates. Conducting an Informational Interview certification course happens to be the capstone course of the series. It is an eight-week-long course with an online mode of learning. The faculty from the University of Washington will instruct this course.

Conducting an Informational Interview online course houses practical approaches to putting your communication and networking skills into place. You will get the opportunity to practice and conduct a mock informational interview. Through the interview, you will learn to clarify your goals, telephonic arrangements, and how you can research a person. The parts of an interview are also covered in the curriculum.

Conducting an Informational Interview course by edX will allow you to write important questions for getting to know a person better. You will be able to make out the details of their career and personality by conducting these mock interviews. This language course requires you to devote roughly three to five hours every week to get the maximum out of the programme.

There are 2 modes of study which are called the Audit and Verified Track. The students have the provision to select any track and continue their studies. In the case of Audit tracks, candidates will get a time limit in which they will have to learn the course materials but in the case of Verified tracks, one will have an unlimited period in which they may complete the course.

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8 Weeks
Beginner
Free
Skills Covered:
Communication skills
Introduction to Cybersecurity

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Introduction to Cybersecurity

The Introduction to Cybersecurity certification course fills in as a prologue to the energizing field of network safety. As our day by day lives become increasingly more reliant on Internet-based apparatuses and administrations, and as those stages gather a greater amount of our most delicate information, the interest develops for specialists in the field of online protection. 

In An Introduction to Cybersecurity course, you will acquire a diagram of the network safety scene just as public (USA) and global viewpoints on the field. We will cover the lawful climate that impacts network protection just as overwhelming danger to entertainers.

This is simply the first of four paced courses that make up our certificate arrangement on Essentials of Cybersecurity. Different courses in this arrangement open in the following a while. You may take an Introduction to Cybersecurity certification training course by edX at any request. If you are not yet enlisted as a certified educator, we urge you to join. As a verified track student of this course, you are given an authentication in the form of a verified certificate after effectively completing the Introduction to Cybersecurity programme. The candidates may progress at their own speed in both tracks of study. The main difference is that the access is limited in the case of the audit track and unlimited in the case of verified track.

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6 Weeks
Beginner
Free
Skills Covered:
Knowledge of Cyber Security
Cybersecurity The CISOs View

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Cybersecurity The CISO’s View

The CISO occupies a leadership position in the industry. They protect the data and digital systems on which the company’s employees and its customers depend on. The aim of the Cybersecurity: The CISO’s View course by edX is to help the candidates develop an understanding of cybersecurity operations. It will also explore the role of the Chief Information Security Officer in the industry. 

The Cybersecurity: The CISO’s View certification programme is offered by the University of Washington. Barbara Endicott-Popovsky (The Director of the Centre for Information Assurance and Cybersecurity department) is the course instructor. This is an introductory-level course, helpful in understanding the basic concepts and nuances of cybersecurity. The candidates will learn the functioning of cybersecurity across industries, how information is kept secure, and the point of view of the CISO.

Cybersecurity: The CISO’s View training programme is an online course and is rife with pre-recorded video lectures that the candidate can access at their own pace. The course spans around six weeks, and you need to devote two-to-five hours every week. Candidates can audit the course completely free of cost and earn a course certificate by paying a specific certification fee. 

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6 Weeks
Beginner
Free
Skills Covered:
Knowledge of Cyber Security
Building a Cybersecurity Toolkit

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Building a Cybersecurity Toolkit

The Building a Cybersecurity Toolkit certification course spans over six weeks. It is a short-term course that has been developed by the University of Washington in collaboration with edX to impart knowledge about the fundamentals of cybersecurity. Moreover, you can learn for free because the enrollment has no charges. But if you want to get accreditation, you will have to pay a certain amount.

The Building a Cybersecurity Toolkit certification syllabus is designed to help you become well-versed in the skills and tools essential to building a professional cybersecurity toolkit. You also learn about the usage of different tools in different situations. Furthermore, this programme enhances your problem-solving skills and management skills. 

Besides, you get to assess your skills and eventually understand whether a job in this field is the right fit for you. You get to study at your speed with pre-recorded videos. The certification will be instructed by David Aucsmith, a senior principal research scientist at the University of Washington and a well-qualified mentor.

You will also get to learn from both the academic community and practitioner community in the Building a Cybersecurity Toolkit online course. The students may choose any one of the tracks available namely verified and audit to complete the course. Both the tracks are self-paced but during the audit track, the candidates will get limited period access to the course. On the other hand, during the verified track, the candidates will be able to see and learn from the course materials till the end of time.

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6 Weeks
Beginner
Free
Skills Covered:
Knowledge of Cyber Security
Finding Your Cybersecurity Career Path

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Finding Your Cybersecurity Career Path

This cybersecurity certification has been designed by the University of Washington. Finding Your Cybersecurity Career Path by edX is a short-term programme with a duration of 6 weeks. Learning this course on the platform is free. However, if you wish to acquire a professional certification, you will have to pay a sum. 

This introductory level Finding Your Cybersecurity Career Path programme is related to the stream of computer science. Moreover, the sessions will be held online, and edX will provide you with the video transcripts of those lessons to ease your learning process. Barbara Endicott-Popovsky, who is the director of the Centre for Information Assurance and Cybersecurity at the University of Washington, will mentor the programme.

Not only that, you will enjoy plenty of benefits with the features of Finding Your Cybersecurity Career Path certification course. You will get to discover and understand thirty-two different job positions in the field of cybersecurity. This will be followed by a thorough self-assessment of your skills and expertise after which you can identify which role would be the best for you in terms of compatibility and interest. That will consequently help in pursuing your dream career by acquiring new skills.

The candidates may choose any one of the tracks available known as the verified and audit to complete the programme. Both the tracks are self-paced but during the audit track, the candidates will get limited period access to the course. On the other hand, the verified track offers unlimited time for accessing the course.

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6 Weeks
Beginner
Free
Skills Covered:
Knowledge of Cyber Security
Preparing to Network in English

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Preparing to Network in English

Career success is directly related to networking. Social and professional connections are vital for acquiring the right opportunities at the right time. The Preparing to Network in English certification course will take you through the basics of networking and why it is important for you. It is a part of the professional certificate in English for Business networking.

The course curriculum for the Preparing to Network in English online programme houses the knowledge and skills to grow your business network. You will learn to focus on your qualities and how you can refine them. The course also places special emphasis on the English language as it happens to be a global language known and valued by most employers. It is a six weeks training course.

You will have the opportunity of exploring the business culture around the globe with the Preparing to Network in English course by edX. The course also enables you to improve your command of the English language. The instructors from the University of Washington will train you to speak confidently while introducing yourself in English. 

There are 2 modes of study - Audit and Verified Track that can be selected by the candidates to complete their studies. In the case of Audit tracks, the candidates will get a particular time limit in which they will have to learn the course materials but in the case of Verified tracks, the candidates will have an unlimited period in which they may complete the course.

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6 Weeks
Beginner
Free
Skills Covered:
Networking Business Management
Programming Languages Part A

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Programming Language Part-A

This course is offered by the University of Washington which is one of the oldest state-supported universities for higher education and one of the best research universities in the world. This course will help you know your strength, apply your analytical skills, and provide you with the confidence to perform efficiently at your workplace or start your own business. 

Students are introduced to the basics of programming languages and with additional focus on functional programming, using languages like ML, racket, and Ruby to teach the ideas to the student community, but the course aims to make students learn about how they can fit together any language to make an effective program in any language and learn new ones.

This course combines programming specifics and theoretical knowledge about the programming languages, providing a framework for understanding how a language can be used to create programs in an effective manner. This will demand you to put your analytical thinking to use, more, by selecting different languages as compared to in terms of the particular syntax of one language.  For learning how to write a robust, reusable, composable, and elegant program, it is very essential to learn about functional programming which offers the most important ideas in the latest languages. 

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6 Weeks
Intermediate
Free
Skills Covered:
Programming skills Machine learning
Introduction to Internationalization and Localization

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Introduction to Internalization and Localization

If you are a developer or designer looking to launch your products overseas without altering the code, then the Introduction to Internalization and Localization Certification Course is for you. Through this training, you can learn how to launch a digital product internationally in various languages and reach your international target markets. 

The University of Washington offers this MOOC on edX. Throughout the Introduction to Internalization and Localization programme, you will delve into the various factors of making a product world-ready by applying different localisation techniques. You will also learn about multiple localisation models and the market’s history, which can be used in real-world problem-solving. 

The Introduction to Internalization and Localization Training is entirely online and lasts for six weeks. Candidates will follow a self-paced study module which will give them the convenience of learning on their own time. Moreover, a certificate of completion verified by the University of Washington is also available. There are 2 tracks namely audit and verified tracks, out of which one has to be selected by the stduents for learning the course. The verified track offers unlimited access with a certificate whereas the audit track offers limited period access to the course materials with no certificate.

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6 Weeks
Expert
Free
Skills Covered:
Marketing skills
Portfolio Management Governance and the PMO

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Portfolio Management Governance & the PMO

Portfolio Management, Governance, & the PMO programme is an online course of six weeks. The training curriculum will take you through the details of portfolio management. Your instructors will teach you the strategies to successfully build, maintain, and close a PMO. You will be learning monitoring techniques as well. It will allow you to ensure the success of your projects.

The University of Washington is providing Portfolio Management, Governance, & the PMO certification course by edX. Your programme instructor will be from the university itself; so, rest assured you will acquire a quality education. It is an introductory level course with an all-encompassing curriculum. You will learn approaches to control and monitor the delivery of programmes and projects. 

Portfolio Management, Governance, & the PMO training focuses on the working of PMOs. You can access the course by simply registering on edX’s website. It is a free-to-enroll programme but offers limited access during the audit track but provides no certificate. Besides that, you can earn a valuable course completion certificate while learning at your own pace only if you choose the verified mode. 

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6 Weeks
Beginner
Free
Localization Adapting Digital Content to Local Markets

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Localization: Adapting Digital Content to Local Markets

Are you interested in making your local product viral worldwide? Do you wonder what it takes to release your application in a set of global market verticals? Then the Localization: Adapting Digital Content to Local Markets certification course is the right fit for you. Learn to tailor your digital products, websites, and more to markets abroad through the process of localisation. 

A premier public research institute, the University of Washington is offering the certification course. The Localization certification syllabus focuses on familiarising students with the process of launching their website or software in various foreign languages and across markets. The six-week programme on project management necessitates two-five hours of weekly commitment from students.

The Localization: Adapting Digital Content to Local Markets online course offers advanced-level education and falls in the domain of computer science. Students who finish the programme will also learn to practice cost and schedule management during localisation of projects. The course from edX is free of cost and only requires a charge for a verified certification. There are 2 modes from which the candidates need to choose, an audit track, and a verified track. Both the tracks are in the self-paced mode but audit mode gives limited access and the verified track gives unlimited access to the course materials.

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6 Weeks
Expert
Free
Skills Covered:
Marketing skills
Strategic Applications of IT Project and Program Management

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Strategic Applications of IT Project and Program Management

Strategic Applications of IT Project and Program Management certification course by edX is offered by the University of Washington- one of the pre-eminent public research universities, which runs for six weeks.  Topics of study include project management applications, roles, methods, and lifestyles within an organisational culture. 

Those who opt to learn from the course will study the effectiveness of each methodology used to deliver business value. Students will understand the relationship between portfolios, projects, and programme in the IT field. Replete with video modules and transcripts for learning, the Strategic Applications of IT Project and Program Management course caters to its students' learning at their own pace.

This introductory course in Business and Management comes with an associated programme in IT Project Management that can be pursued if the candidate is interested. Debra Hildebrand, an expert instructor of Project Management at the University of Washington, teaches the Strategic Applications of IT Project and Program Management training programme. Additionally, students can add in a completion certificate that verifies the student's learning process and expertise. The learners can opt for any of the enrolment options, namely, verified and audit tracks. In the audit mode, the learners can pursue the programme free of cost but get access to the programme only for a limited duration. During the verified track, the candidates will be able to pursue the course for an unlimited period of time.

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6 Weeks
Beginner
Free
Skills Covered:
Project management
Speaking to Persuade Motivating Audiences with Solid Arguments and Moving Language

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Speaking to persuade: Motivating audiences with solid arguments and moving language

The ‘Speaking to persuade: Motivating audiences with solid arguments and moving language’ online course is delivered to engage students in gaining persuasive speaking skills and abilities to make compelling arguments, discuss solutions and identify problems during speech. This online certification course is provided by the Coursera education portal in collaboration with the University of Washington (UW) for the development of the course curriculum. The classes are conducted on the virtual platform and can be completed in an estimated period of fifteen hours organized for six weeks.

The instructor for this beginner-level program is Dr. Matt McGarrity who is a teaching professor from the department of communication at UW. The participants of this course can learn through videos, readings, quizzes, practice exercises, and graded assessments which can be completed at their own pace.

The ‘Speaking to persuade: Motivating audiences with solid arguments and moving language’ online training enables students to get a course completion certificate that can be shared online benefitting them.

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6 Weeks
Beginner
4,117
Skills Covered:
Speaking skills Communication skills Listening skills Language skills Analytical skills
Leadership and Management for PM Practitioners in IT

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Leadership and Management for PM Practitioners in IT

There are some essential skills to be learned to be an effective project manager in the global market. The Leadership and Management for PM Practitioners in IT program focus on leadership and management competencies. Candidates will also learn about the ways contrasting organizational cultures can impact project management.

In Leadership and Management for PM Practitioners in IT by edX, candidates will learn competencies required of a project manager, both personal and performance-related. They will explore the organizational culture and understand how a team’s dynamics can affect a project. Furthermore, they will delve into team communication and its composition, as well as what links organizational change management and readiness.

Leadership and Management for PM Practitioners in IT is a six-week-long online introductory Business and Management certification course that requires a weekly study time of two to five hours. Educators from the University of Washington will lead the curriculum. 

The students may choose any one of the tracks available namely verified and audit to complete the programme. Both the tracks are self-paced but during the audit track, the candidates will get limited period access to the course. On the other hand, the verified track offers unlimited time for accessing the course.

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6 Weeks
Beginner
Free
Skills Covered:
Project management Customer service
Sustainability Resilience and Society

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Sustainability Resilience and Society

5 Weeks
Beginner
Introduction to Public Speaking

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Introduction to Public Speaking

“Confidence is the most beautiful thing that you can wear” the quote is true and accepted by everyone. Yet there is a lot of hesitation and fear in people of public speaking. Sometimes, people are unable to put up their points and ideas in gatherings like meetings, seminars, etc. because of fear and nervousness. The Introduction to Public Speaking course is an initiative by the University of Washington for the learners who want to overcome their fear and wish to present themselves confidently among others.

Introduction to Public Speaking training will be delivered by the experts of the University of Washington through online mode. The course is available on the online learning platform, Coursera. The course aims to build confidence and develop the personality of students and overcome their fear of public speaking. This is an online, self-paced course of 5 weeks and the duration of the classes will be 15 hours. This is one of the courses available on Coursera by the University of Washington in the dynamic public speaking specialization. The candidates will also receive the Introduction to Public Speaking certification from the University of Washington and Coursera at the end of the course.

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5 Weeks
Beginner
4,117
Internationalization Creating Digital Content for the World

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Internationalization Creating Digital Content for the World

Creating a digital product that can be released into any market without altering its code is no child’s play. It requires a vital skill set that every developer or project manager must possess. This is why you should enrol in the Internationalization: Creating Digital Content for the World programme online course. It will help you grasp the fundamentals of internationalization.

The Internationalization: Creating Digital Content for the World certification course cumulates the concepts and techniques one must develop a digital product's core. Your course instructors will cover different writing systems, the directionality of scripts, and regional formats. What’s more, the programme curriculum will take you through the challenges you face while creating a foreign market product.

This online programme is an offering of the University of Washington. Your course instructors will be faculty members from the university itself. So, rest assured, you will receive quality guidance from industry experts. Besides, the Internationalization: Creating Digital Content for the World training lasts four weeks with a self-paced learning model. Edx offers 2 tracks, one is the audit track, and the other is the verified track. Both the tracks offer access to the course materials, but in the audit track this access is limited whereas in the verified track, the access is unlimited.

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4 Weeks
Expert
Free
Using Email for Networking in English

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Using Email for Networking in English

Effectual writing is a significant business skill, particularly for networking. edX’s Using Email for Networking in English course is designed to teach how to use strong writing skills to enhance your email communication, which is used most widely in the scope of business. You will study the step-by-step process of writing impressive emails to capture the reader’s attention.

With lessons from the Using Email for Networking in English MOOC at edX, you will study strategies for writing efficacious emails. You will learn appealing English vocabulary that you can include in your messages and techniques to write effective subject lines.

Moreover, Using Email for Networking in English online course will teach you how to create unique messages for diverse target groups to become aware of the tone to be used. Understanding when to be informal or formal is critical in getting your message across. This course will help you gain that level of understanding. The online programme can be taken by the learners in two modes; paid and free. In the free audit mode, the candidates will have access to the programme only for a limited period. 

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4 Weeks
Beginner
Free
Skills Covered:
Business sense Writing skills Networking
Machine Learning Clustering and Retrieval

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Machine Learning: Clustering & Retrieval

Machine Learning: Clustering & Retrieval is the University of Washington-offered online certification programme. The online course will expose the students to the practical understanding of clustering and retrieval aspects of machine learning through the case study of Finding Similar Documents. Machine Learning: Clustering & Retrieval Certification Course facilitates the students to take the course completely in online mode from anywhere in the world. 

Provided by Coursera, Machine Learning: Clustering & Retrieval Certification Syllabus will discuss the similarity-based algorithms for retrieval,  latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA), clustering, and the implementation of expectation maximization (EM) and the like. Machine Learning: Clustering & Retrieval Certification by Coursera is the fourth and last course in the Machine Learning Specialization. 

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3 Weeks
4,117
Skills Covered:
Machine learning
Practical Predictive Analytics Models and Methods

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Practical Predictive Analytics: Models and Methods

Practical Predictive Analytics: Models and Methods is the certification programme on some of the practical and effective concepts and methods of machine learning and their real-world application. The course is a 100% online programme that the learners can pursue at their own pace. Offered  by Coursera, Practical Predictive Analytics: Models and Methods Certification Course is the second course in Data Science at Scale Specialization provided by the University of Washington. 

Practical Predictive Analytics: Models and Methods Certification Syllabus will shed light on statistical experiment designing, R Programming, Random Forest, Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning. The subtitles for the course videos of Practical Predictive Analytics: Models and Methods Certification by Coursera are available in different languages, such as French, Portuguese (European), Korean, Russian, English, and Spanish, allowing non-English learners to take the online programme. 

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3 Weeks
4,117
Skills Covered:
Machine learning
Programming Languages Part C

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Programming Languages, Part C

Coursera provides an array of courses in diverse fields. These courses include E-learning videos, projects, community forums, peer reviews, and practice exercises. This course is being offered by the University of Washington on Coursera. 

The framework of the Programming Languages, Part C course by Coursera has been designed to give the learners exposure to the basic concepts of programming languages. This course strongly focuses on functional programming as it is important for learning how to write robust, elegant, composable and reusable programmes.

The course offers a blended curriculum which trains the participants in using language constructs effectively and designing correct and elegant programs. The coursework utilizes the languages Ruby, Racket, and ML as vehicles for teaching the concepts which will make the participants more efficient in programming in any language and learning the new ones at the same time. This course, Part C is a part of a 3- part course. The instructor for this course is Dan Grossman, a professor at the University of Washington who has been teaching programming languages at the University since 2003. He holds the J. Ray Bowen Professorship For Innovation In Engineering Education.

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3 Weeks
Free
Skills Covered:
Programming skills
Social Media Data Analytics

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Social Media Data Analytics

3 Weeks
Intermediate
Free
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Data Manipulation at Scale Systems and Algorithms

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Data Manipulation at Scale: Systems and Algorithms

The Data Manipulation at Scale: Systems and Algorithms online course by Coursera is the first step in the Data Science at Scale Specialization series. The University of Washington offers the certification course in collaboration with Coursera.

The Data Manipulation at Scale: Systems and Algorithms online certification course aims to teach the landscape of relevant systems to the students and how these systems are evaluated along with the principles on which they rely. Students will also learn the context of data science as well as the history, skills and challenges that come while working with data. Moreover, students will get hands-on experience in learning how to structure a data science project. 

Additionally, the Data Manipulation at Scale: Systems and Algorithms class programme is a self-paced learning course so that students never have to worry about missing a class. At the same time, the course is 100% online so that they can learn from the comfort of their home. The students will be awarded a shareable certificate after completing the course, which can be shared on professional platforms. 

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4,115
Skills Covered:
Knowledge of Python SQL knowledge
Machine Learning Regression

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Machine Learning: Regression

Machine Learning: Regression is a certification programme offered completely in the online mode. In the course by the University of Washington, the students will be exposed to machine learning, particularly regression. Machine Learning: Regression Certification Syllabus will talk about regression which is predictive modelling in machine learning that will help to foresee the outcomes analyzing the algorithm. 

In the Machine Learning: Regression Certification Course, offered by Coursera, the candidates will learn the regression based on the case study of the ‘Predicting Housing Prices’ where the students will come up with a model that will predict a continuous value/price based on the input features such as a number of bathrooms, bedrooms, etc. Machine Learning: Regression Certification by Coursera is the second in the four courses of Machine Learning Specialization. 

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4,117
Skills Covered:
Machine learning

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