Data Analyst to Data Scientist

R12 789.00

This Skillsoft Aspire Journey takes you along four tracks towards progressing from Data Analyst to Data Scientist: Data Analyst, Data Wrangler, Data Ops and Data Science.

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Study duration (Months)
Computer Skillsoft LMS access
Teacher and student Online Skillsoft mentor
Certificate Certified by Optimi College

Course code: C01081

 

Subjects:

Data Science Track 1: Data Analyst

Data Engineering Fundamentals
Python for Data Science: Introduction to NumPy for Multi-dimensional Data
Python for Data Science: Advanced Operations with NumPy Arrays
Python for Data Science: Introduction to Pandas
Python for Data Science: Manipulating and Analyzing Data in Pandas DataFrames
R for Data Science: Data Structures
R for Data Science: Importing and Exporting Data
R for Data Science: Data Exploration
R for Data Science: Regression Methods
R for Data Science: Classification & Clustering
Data Science Statistics: Simple Descriptive Statistics
Data Science Statistics: Common Approaches to Sampling Data
Data Science Statistics: Inferential Statistics
Accessing Data with Spark: An Introduction to Spark
Getting Started with Hadoop: Fundamentals & MapReduce
Getting Started with Hadoop: Developing a Basic MapReduce Application Hadoop HDFS: Introduction
Hadoop HDFS: Introduction to the Shell
Hadoop HDFS: Working with Files
Hadoop HDFS: File Permissions
Data Silos, Lakes, & Streams: Introduction
Data Silos, Lakes, and Streams: Data Lakes on AWS
Data Silos, Lakes, & Streams: Sources, Visualizations, & ETL Operations
Data Analysis Application
Analyzing Data with Python (Lab)
Final Exam: Data Analyst
Mentoring Data Science Journey Data Architecture Primer

Data Science Track 2: Data Wrangler

Mentoring Data Science Journey
Data Wrangling with Pandas: Working with Series & Data
Frames Data Wrangling with Pandas: Visualizations and Time-Series Data
Data Wrangling with Pandas: Advanced Features
Data Wrangler 4: Cleaning Data in R
Data Tools: Technology Landscape & Tools for Data Management
Data Tools: Machine Learning & Deep Learning in the Cloud
Trifacta for Data Wrangling: Wrangling Data
MongoDB for Data Wrangling: Querying
MongoDB for Data Wrangling: Aggregation
Getting Started with Hive: Introduction
Getting Started with Hive: Loading and Querying Data
Getting Started with Hive: Viewing and Querying Complex Data
Getting Started with Hive: Optimizing Query Executions
Getting Started with Hive: Optimizing Query Executions with Partitioning
Getting Started with Hive: Bucketing & Window Functions
Getting Started with Hadoop: Filtering Data Using MapReduce
Getting Started with Hadoop: MapReduce Applications With Combiners
Getting Started with Hadoop: Advanced Operations Using MapReduce
Accessing Data with Spark: Data Analysis Using the Spark DataFrame API
Accessing Data with Spark: Data Analysis using Spark SQL
Data Lake: Framework & Design Implementation
Data Lake: Architectures & Data Management Principles
Data Architecture – Deep Dive: Design & Implementation
Data Architecture – Deep Dive: Microservices & Serverless Computing
Final Exam: Data Wrangler
Data Wrangling with Python (Lab)

Data Science Track 3: Data Ops

Deploying Data Tools: Data Science Tools
Delivering Dashboards: Management Patterns Delivering Dashboards: Exploration & Analytics
Cloud Data Architecture: DevOps & Containerization Compliance
Issues and Strategies: Data Compliance Implementing Governance Strategies
Data Access & Governance Policies: Data Access Oversight and IAM
Data Access & Governance Policies: Data Classification, Encryption, and Monitoring
Streaming Data Architectures: An Introduction to Streaming Data
Streaming Data Architectures: Processing Streaming Data
Scalable Data Architectures: Introduction
Scalable Data Architectures: Introduction to Amazon Redshift
Scalable Data Architectures: Working with Amazon Redshift & Quick Sight Building Data Pipelines
Data Pipeline: Process Implementation Using Tableau & AWS
Data Pipeline: Using Frameworks for Advanced Data Management
Data Sources: Integration
Data Sources: Implementing Edge on the Cloud Securing Big Data Streams
Harnessing Data Volume & Velocity: Big Data to Smart Data
Data Rollbacks: Transaction Rollbacks & Their Impact
Data Rollbacks: Transaction Management & Rollbacks in NoSQL
Implementing Data Ops with Python (Lab)
Final Exam: Data Ops
Mentoring Data Science Journey

Data Science Track 4: Data Scientist

Balancing the Four Vs of Data: The Four Vs of Data
Data Driven Organizations
Raw Data to Insights: Data Ingestion & Statistical Analysis
Raw Data to Insights: Data Management & Decision Making
Tableau Desktop: Real Time Dashboards
Storytelling with Data: Introduction
Storytelling with Data: Tableau & PowerBI
Python for Data Science: Basic Data Visualization Using Seaborn
Python for Data Science: Advanced Data Visualization Using Seaborn
Data Science Statistics: Using Python to Compute & Visualize Statistics
R for Data Science: Data Visualization
Advanced Visualizations & Dashboards: Visualization Using Python
Advanced Visualizations & Dashboards: Visualization Using R
Powering Recommendation Engines: Recommendation Engines
Data Insights, Anomalies, & Verification: Handling Anomalies
Data Insights, Anomalies, & Verification: Machine Learning & Visualization Tools
Data Science Statistics: Applied Inferential Statistics
Data Research Techniques
Data Research Exploration Techniques
Data Research Statistical Approaches
Machine & Deep Learning Algorithms: Introduction
Machine & Deep Learning Algorithms: Regression & Clustering
Machine & Deep Learning Algorithms: Data Preperation in Pandas ML
Machine & Deep Learning Algorithms: Imbalanced Datasets Using Pandas ML
Creating Data APIs Using Node.js
Data Visualization with Python (Lab)
Final Exam: Data Scientist
Mentoring Data Science Journey

The ability to read and write in English.

Learners must be at least 16 years of age.

Course type: Short course

Certification: Certificate confirming course completion.

Certification issued by: Optimi College

Online assessments

Course fee: R12 789.00

Deposit: R2 200.00

Monthly instalment: R882.42

Payment duration: 12 months

Study duration: You will have course access for 12 months. To complete the course, we recommend a total of 200 hours of study, e.g. study 1 hour per day and complete your course in 7 months.

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