Data Science for Executives Training Course
Harness Data Science for Business Success
Discover what data science entails and how it can fortify your organization. This course outlines the essential skills required for your data team and guides you on structuring the team to align with your organization's specific requirements.
Additionally, this course equips you with the knowledge to identify viable data sources for your company, as well as the methods for storing, analyzing, and visualizing that data.
Comprehend the Data Science Workflow
You will begin with an overview of data science within the business context, examining the data science workflow and its application to real-world challenges. You will also delve into data collection mechanisms, exploring strategies for sourcing and storing data.
Master Data Analysis and Visualization
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You will further explore methods for analyzing and visualizing data using dashboards and A/B testing. To conclude the course, we will examine intriguing topics in machine learning, such as clustering, time series forecasting, natural language processing (NLP), deep learning, and explainable AI.
Throughout the process, you will encounter various real-world applications of data science and deepen your understanding of these concepts through hands-on exercises.
This serves as an excellent entry point into data science for managers, offering you the opportunity to learn about this potent business tool.
Course Outline
Introduction to Data Science
We commence the course by defining data science. We will cover the data science workflow and its application to solving real-world business problems. The chapter concludes with guidance on structuring your data team to meet your organization's needs.
Analysis and Visualization
In this section, we discuss techniques for exploring and visualizing data via dashboards. We will examine the components of a dashboard and how to formulate specific requests for them. This chapter also addresses ad hoc data requests and A/B testing, powerful analytics tools that mitigate risk in decision-making.
Data Collection and Storage
With an understanding of the data science workflow established, we will explore the initial step in depth: data collection. We will identify the various data sources available to your company and learn how to store the data once collected.
Prediction
In this final chapter, we tackle the most prominent topic in data science: machine learning! We will cover supervised and unsupervised machine learning, as well as clustering. Subsequently, we will advance to specialized machine learning topics, including time series forecasting, natural language processing, deep learning, and explainable AI!
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Hands-on exercises related to content really helps to understand more about each topic. Also, style of start class with lecture and continue with hands-on exercise is good and helpful to relate with the lecture that presented earlier.
Nazeera Mohamad - Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation
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