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Politecnico di Milano

Data Science for Business Innovation

EIT Digital

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The Data Science for Business Innovation nano-course is a compendium of the must-have expertise in data science for executives and middle-management to foster data-driven innovation. The course explains what Data Science is and why it is so hyped. 
You will learn:
* the value that Data Science can create
* the main classes of problems that Data Science can solve
* the difference is between descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics
* the roles of machine learning and artificial intelligence. 

From a more technical perspective, the course covers supervised, unsupervised and semi-supervised methods, and explains what can be obtained with classification, clustering, and regression techniques. It discusses the role of NoSQL data models and technologies, and the role and impact of scalable cloud-based computation platforms. All topics are covered with example-based lectures, discussing use cases, success stories, and realistic examples.

Following this nano-course, if you wish to further deepen your data science knowledge, you can attend the Data Science for Business Innovation live course https://professionalschool.eitdigital.eu/data-science-for-business-innovation

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Beginner Level

Approx. 7 hours to complete

English

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What you will learn

What is data science
How data science, machine learning, and data-driven innovation can benefit business outcomes
Foundational concepts and intuitions about machine learning techniques

Skills you will gain

Data Science
Business Analytics
Decision-Making
Data Analysis
Big Data

Flexible deadlines

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Shareable Certificate

Earn a Certificate upon completion

100% online

Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.

Coursera Labs

Includes hands on learning projects.

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Beginner Level

Approx. 7 hours to complete

English

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Instructors

Instructor rating

4.38/5 (83 Ratings)

Marco Brambilla

Professor

Politecnico di Milano

13,465 Learners

7 Courses

Emanuele Della Valle

Associate Professor

Politecnico di Milano

12,257 Learners

1 Course

Offered by

EIT Digital

EIT Digital is a European education and innovation organisation with a mission to foster digital technology innovation and entrepreneurial talent for economic growth and quality of life. By linking education, research, and business, EIT Digital empowers digital top talent for the future.

EIT Digital provides online and face-to-face Innovation and Entrepreneurship education to raise quality, increase diversity and availability of the top-level content provided by 20 leading technical universities around Europe. The universities deliver a unique blend of the best of technical excellence and entrepreneurial skills and mindset to digital engineers and entrepreneurs at all stages of their careers. The academic partners support Coursera’s bold vision to enable anyone, anywhere, to transform their lives by accessing the world’s best learning experience. This means that EIT Digital gradually shares parts of its entrepreneurial and academic education programmes to demonstrate its excellence and make it accessible to a much wider audience. EIT Digital’s online education portfolio can be used as part of blended education settings, in both Master's and Doctorate programmes, and for professionals as a way to update their knowledge.

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

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Week1

Week 1

1 hour to complete

Introduction to Data-driven Business

1 hour to complete

3 videos (Total 13 min), 2 readings, 2 quizzes

Week2

Week 2

2 hours to complete

Terminology and Foundational Concepts

In this module, you will learn the foundational concepts of machine learning and data science. You will understand how these techniques can be useful in terms of increased business value for organizations, thanks to the discussion of a very well known success story, namely Netflix, which can be deemed as a completely data-driven business. You will also understand how machine learning is different from programming.

2 hours to complete

3 videos (Total 16 min), 3 readings, 3 quizzes

Week3

Week 3

3 hours to complete

Data Science Methods for Business

3 hours to complete

5 videos (Total 25 min), 5 readings, 5 quizzes

5 videos

Linear Regression for Price Prediction4mClassification of User-generated Content to Recommend Restaurants2mProduct Recommendation Using Decision Trees and Random Forests2mHiring Employees Using Logistic Regression8mK-means Clustering6m

5 readings

Linear Regression for Product Price Prediction10mClassification User-generated Content to Recommend Restaurants10mProduct Recommendation Using Decision Trees and Random Forests10mHiring Employees Using Logistic Regression10mUsing k-means for Clustering10m

5 practice exercises

Linear Regression30mNaive Bayes10mDecision Trees and Random Forests30mLogistic Regression30mK-means Clustering6m

Week4

Week 4

1 hour to complete

Challenges and Conclusions

1 hour to complete

2 videos (Total 12 min), 1 reading, 1 quiz

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TOP REVIEWS FROM DATA SCIENCE FOR BUSINESS INNOVATION

by RFNov 26, 2020

The course is good, but sometimes the quizzes are confusing.

by SPMay 23, 2020

The knowledge was practical based and interesting; however better application of knowledge in real life would've been a great add-on.

by BKApr 6, 2022

I learnt alot about algorithms, statsistics and data science through this course. Thank you to the professors

by CMMay 15, 2021

Great course, great content, the quiz questions are tricky which makes it really interesting

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