Data Science Capstone

7 hours to complete
Flexible Schedule

Jeff Leek, PhD , Roger D. Peng, PhD , Brian Caffo, PhD

What You’ll Learn

Create a useful data product for the public

Apply your exploratory data analysis skills

Build an efficient and accurate prediction model

Produce a presentation deck to showcase your findings

Skills You’ll Gain

Data Collection Statistical Analysis Data Manipulation Data Science Data Presentation Predictive Modeling Data analysis Exploratory Data Analysis Data Cleansing Data Storytelling

Shareable Certificate

Earn a shareable certificate to add to your LinkedIn profile.

Develop Your Specialized Knowledge

Learn new concepts from industry experts

Gain a foundational understanding of a subject or tool

Develop job-relevant skills with hands-on projects

Earn a shareable career certificate

There are 7 modules in this course

This week, we introduce the project so you can get a clear grip on the problem at hand and begin working with the dataset.

This week, we move on to the next tasks, exploratory data analysis and modeling. You'll also submit your milestone report and review submissions from your classmates.

This week, you'll build and evaluate your prediction model. The goal is to make your model efficient and accurate.

This week's goal is to improve the predictive accuracy while reducing computational runtime and model complexity.

This week, you'll work on developing the first component of your final project, your data product.

This week, you'll work on developing the second component of your final project, a slide deck to accompany your data product.

This week, you'll submit your final project and review the work of your classmates.