Data Literacy for Business

This Data Literacy for Business training is designed to give you a high-level overview of the key topics in Data Science and Machine Learning without needing to learn how to code or cover complex mathematics.

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What You’ll Learn

  • How to tackle, cleanse, and understand large data sets
  • How to interpret data and create analysis to convey insights
  • Common visualizations and techniques to communicate with data support
  • The fundamentals of statistics and probability that underpin data science
  • Concepts that enable machine learning (ML)
  • An overview of deep learning concepts including ML and artificial intelligence (AI)

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Course Content

An understanding of the power of data is critical for any modern professional. The opportunities data can unlock for organizations to make smarter business decisions and continuously improve is often the underpinning of organizational success. And as a result, being able to “speak data” is a critical skillset. Data Literacy for Business is an introductory course for non-technical professionals that provides a foundation of knowledge on the use cases and value of big data, data analysis, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.

  • Data and Opportunities
    • Data Quality
  • Understanding Big Data
    • Data Measurements
    • Understanding Central Tendency
    • Understanding Dispersion
  • Understanding Data Analysis
    • Tour of Data Visualizations
    • Probability and Uncertainty
    • Testing theories and hypotheses
  • Probability and Statistics Overview
  • Machine Learning Overview
    • Understanding Machine Learning Concepts
    • Supervised Learning Overview
    • Unsupervised Learning Overview
    • Dimensionality Reduction Overview
  • The Future of Data, ML, and AI
    • Overview of Deep Learning Concepts
    • What’s next for AI and ML

This is a great course for non-technical individuals, including Executives or employees who work closely with data, business intelligence, IT, engineering, and other technical teams, who seek a high-level understanding of the basics of data science and machine learning.

Course Description

Data literacy is the ability to read, understand, create, and communicate data as information. Much like literacy as a general concept, data literacy focuses on the competencies involved in working with data. In this course you’ll learn the fundamental concepts relating to data, allowing you to understand what makes data suitable for data analysis, visualization, and machine learning. This Data Literacy training is designed to give you a high-level overview of the key topics in Data Science and Machine Learning without getting into coding or complex mathematic details.

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