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Data Preparation & Applied Machine Learning Specialization

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Data Preparation & Applied Machine Learning Specialization

Prepare Data for Machine Learning.

Turn messy data into trusted inputs for real machine learning workflows

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Intermediate level

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4 weeks to complete
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Get in-depth knowledge of a subject
Intermediate level

Recommended experience

4 weeks to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Clean, transform, and combine raw datasets using Python, pandas, and SQL for analysis and machine learning

  • Diagnose data quality issues and prepare reliable data pipelines for downstream analytics and modeling

  • Engineer features and build supervised machine learning models for real prediction tasks

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July 2026

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Specialization - 4 course series

Data Cleaning, Transformation, and Manipulation

Data Cleaning, Transformation, and Manipulation

Course 1, 14 hours

What you'll learn

  • Assemble analysis-ready tables with SQL joins and Python filtering.

  • Engineer clean numeric features with transforms, scaling, and standardization.

  • Prepare modeling-ready datasets: impute, encode, scale, and select features.

Data Quality Monitoring and Prevention

Data Quality Monitoring and Prevention

Course 2, 6 hours

What you'll learn

Data Preparation and Analysis

Data Preparation and Analysis

Course 3, 16 hours

What you'll learn

Supervised Machine Learning

Supervised Machine Learning

Course 4, 17 hours

What you'll learn

  • Choose supervised ML approaches; Build regression, SVM, and tree models; Tune ensembles for better performance

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