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Professional Certificate in Data Science

Harvard's series on data science with R: basics, visualisation, probability, inference, wrangling, machine learning and a capstone.

HarvardX intermediate See provider for pricing

What you'll learn

  • Analyse and visualise data in R
  • Apply probability and statistical inference
  • Build and evaluate machine learning models

About this course

Led by Rafael Irizarry, the series teaches data science through R and real-world case studies, covering visualisation, probability, statistical inference and modelling, productivity tools, wrangling, linear regression and machine learning.

glitchdata links to this course; its content, schedule and pricing are set by HarvardX.

Before you start

  • Comfort with high-school maths

Where to take it

This course is run by HarvardX. glitchdata describes it and links to it, but doesn't host its lessons — you take it on their site, under their terms.

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