The capstone project class will allow students to create a usable/public data product that can be used to show your skills to potential employers. Projects will be drawn from real-world problems and will be conducted with industry, government, and academic partners.
Data Science Capstone
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Data Science Capstone
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Instructors: Jeff Leek, PhD +2 more
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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
- Category: Analytical Skills
- Category: Machine Learning
- Category: Natural Language Processing
- Category: Predictive Analytics
- Category: Exploratory Data Analysis
- Category: Model Evaluation
- Category: Data Preprocessing
- Category: Data Science
- Category: Model Optimization
- Category: Data Collection
- Category: Data Presentation
- Category: Predictive Modeling
- Category: Data Analysis
- Category: Data Synthesis
Tools you'll learn
- Category: R Programming
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Assessments
3 assignments
Taught in English
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(109 ratings)Jeff Leek, PhD
Johns Hopkins University
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Roger D. Peng, PhD
Johns Hopkins University
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Brian Caffo, PhD
Johns Hopkins University
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PP
Reviewed on Jun 7, 2016
Great way to build up knowledge & experience ....A challenge considering the actual time needed for the Capstone project... but worth every single effort.
EG
Reviewed on Sep 4, 2018
GREAT opportunity to apply all of the knowledge that I learned over the last year or so. Thank you so much for the guidance the opportunity to learn something new!!!
SS
Reviewed on Mar 28, 2017
Wow i finally managed to finish the specialization!! definitely learned a lot and also found out difficulties in building predictors by trying to balancing speed, accuracy and memory constraints!!!