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Data Science Core Skills

9 Courses
6 Hours
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Are you looking to make a career change to become a data scientist? This skill path is focused on helping existing data professionals, such as data analysts and data engineers, learn the core skills and knowledge necessary to become data scientists.

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Data Science Core Skills

Watch the following courses to get started on your data science career journey.

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What You'll Learn
  • How to identify and understand business problems
  • How data scientists collect data
  • How data scientists clean and process data
  • How data scientists perform exploratory data analysis
  • How data scientists build and evaluate ML models
  • How data scientists communicate ML model results
  • How data scientists deploy and maintain ML models
Prerequisites
  • This skill path is targeted for data professionals who want to make a career change to data science. Learners should have 1-3 years of experience as either a data analyst or data engineer.
Related topics
  • Data Science
  • Data Literacy
  • Data Collection
  • Data Processing
  • Exploratory Data Analysis
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