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About this Course

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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.

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Approx. 6 hours to complete

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Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, Korean, German, Russian, English, Spanish

What you will 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 will gain

Data Science
Machine Learning
R Programming
Natural Language Processing

Flexible deadlines

Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.

Shareable Certificate

Earn a Certificate upon completion

100% online

Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.

Approx. 6 hours to complete

English

Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, Korean, German, Russian, English, Spanish

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Johns Hopkins University

The mission of The Johns Hopkins University is to educate its students and cultivate their capacity for life-long learning, to foster independent and original research, and to bring the benefits of discovery to the world.

Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

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Week

Week 1

2 hours to complete

Overview, Understanding the Problem, and Getting the Data

This week, we introduce the project so you can get a clear grip on the problem at hand and begin working with the dataset.

2 hours to complete

7 videos (Total 20 min), 6 readings, 1 quiz

7 videos

Welcome to the Capstone Project1m

Welcome from SwiftKey1m

You Are a Data Scientist Now1m

Introduction to Task 0: Understanding the Problem1m

Introduction to Task 1: Getting and Cleaning the Data1m

Regular Expressions: Part 1 (Optional)5m

Regular Expressions: Part 2 (Optional)8m

6 readings

A Note of Explanation2m

Project Overview10m

Syllabus10m

Task 0 - Understanding the problem10m

About the Corpora10m

Task 1 - Getting and cleaning the data10m

1 practice exercise

Quiz 1: Getting Started30m

Week

Week 2

1 hour to complete

Exploratory Data Analysis and Modeling

This week, we move on to the next tasks, exploratory data analysis and modeling. You'll also submit your milestone report and review submissions from your classmates.

1 hour to complete

2 videos (Total 3 min), 2 readings, 1 quiz

Week

Week 3

1 hour to complete

Prediction Model

This week, you'll build and evaluate your prediction model. The goal is to make your model efficient and accurate.

1 hour to complete

1 video (Total 1 min), 1 reading, 1 quiz

Week

Week 4

1 hour to complete

Creative Exploration

This week's goal is to improve the predictive accuracy while reducing computational runtime and model complexity.

1 hour to complete

1 video (Total 1 min), 1 reading, 1 quiz

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TOP REVIEWS FROM DATA SCIENCE CAPSTONE

by BHJan 15, 2020

Great finish to an excellent specialisation. It's actually opened up some excellent career options for me and I am very grateful to the instructions and Coursera for providing the platform.

by SSMar 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!!!

by SMFeb 8, 2021

Challenging, useful - stretches the imagination as well as knowledge base and skill level. Beautifully presented. Now looking for the next challenge from JHU!

by SMOct 22, 2018

The content of this course is very good and the assignments test the knowledge gained The video lectures are some times boring, losing focus.\n\nI think video lectures need some improvement

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