Data protection courses can help you learn data privacy regulations, risk assessment techniques, incident response strategies, and encryption methods. You can build skills in compliance management, data governance, and implementing security protocols to safeguard sensitive information. Many courses introduce tools like data loss prevention software, encryption tools, and privacy management platforms, showing how these skills are applied in practical work to protect personal and organizational data.

Fundação Instituto de Administração
Skills you'll gain: Business Analytics, Regression Analysis, Descriptive Statistics, Data Analysis, Data-Driven Decision-Making, Statistical Inference, Statistical Methods, Analytics, Statistics, Strategic Decision-Making, Analysis, Business Analysis, Statistical Analysis, Data Science, Probability & Statistics
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Skills you'll gain: C++ (Programming Language), Object Oriented Programming (OOP), Object Oriented Design, Development Environment, Engineering Software, Computer Programming, Data Structures, Debugging, Program Development
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Skills you'll gain: Time Series Analysis and Forecasting, SAS (Software), Forecasting, Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), Feature Engineering, Statistical Analysis, Data Analysis, Digital Signal Processing, Statistical Methods, Advanced Analytics, Predictive Modeling, Data Transformation, Exploratory Data Analysis, Applied Machine Learning, Machine Learning Methods, Regression Analysis, Unsupervised Learning, Data Preprocessing, Bayesian Statistics, Statistical Modeling
Intermediate · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

Skills you'll gain: Data Governance, Data Lakes, Metadata Management, Data Management, Data Warehousing, Data Architecture, Google Cloud Platform, Advanced Analytics, Data Security, Cloud Storage, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Applied Machine Learning, Open Source Technology
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Coursera
Skills you'll gain: Data Manipulation, Tidyverse (R Package), Data Wrangling, Data Analysis, R Programming, Exploratory Data Analysis, Statistical Analysis
Beginner · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

Skills you'll gain: Matplotlib, Data Visualization Software, Data Structures, Data Manipulation, Pandas (Python Package), NumPy, Exploratory Data Analysis, Python Programming, Data Preprocessing, Scripting, Scripting Languages
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Skills you'll gain: Feature Engineering, Dimensionality Reduction, Data Integration, Data Preprocessing, Exploratory Data Analysis, Data Visualization, Matlab, Data Processing, Data Cleansing, Box Plots, Data Manipulation, Histogram, Data Transformation, Data Science, Text Mining, Predictive Modeling, Unstructured Data, Image Analysis
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Skills you'll gain: Data Visualization, Microsoft Excel, Data Visualization Software, Data Import/Export, Business Reporting, Report Writing, Microsoft 365
Beginner · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

Fundação Instituto de Administração
Skills you'll gain: Strategic Marketing, Marketing Analytics, Marketing Strategies, Digital Marketing, Consumer Behaviour, Data Visualization, Sales Strategy, Performance marketing, Marketing Strategy and Techniques, Marketing Management, Data-Driven Decision-Making, Marketing, Digital Media Strategy, Data Visualization Software, Customer Analysis, Customer Engagement, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Analytics, Data Analysis, Target Market
Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

Ball State University
Skills you'll gain: Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Probability Distribution, Statistical Methods, Probability, Sampling (Statistics), Statistical Analysis, Dimensionality Reduction, Data Science, Statistical Modeling, Bayesian Statistics, Statistical Inference, Simulations, R Programming
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Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

The University of Edinburgh
Skills you'll gain: Precision Medicine, Bioinformatics, Image Analysis, Biomedical Technology, Big Data, Data Science, Data Ethics, Health Informatics, Statistical Modeling, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Data Integration, Network Analysis, Graph Theory, Python Programming
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Skills you'll gain: Exploratory Data Analysis, Box Plots, Plot (Graphics), Data Visualization, Ggplot2, Data Visualization Software, Statistical Visualization, Scatter Plots, Histogram, Graphing, Python Programming
Intermediate · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours