Our Courses
Exploring and Analyzing Fifa's Datasets Using Python
In this 1-hour long project-based course, you will learn how to load a dataset into a pandas dataframe, you will learn how to tidy a messy dataset (Data Tidying), you will get to also visualize the dataset using Matplotlib and seaborn, you will learn how to engineer new features, you will also get to learn how to merge datasets (Data Integration) By the end of this project, you will be able to fully analyze a FIFA dataset using python's Pandas library.
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- 2 hours
- English
Big Data Analytical Platform on Alibaba Cloud
Course Description
Building an Analytical Platform on Alibaba Cloud can empower how you take in, analyze, and demonstrate clear metrics from a set of Big Data. This course is designed to teach engineers how to use Alibaba Cloud Big Data products. It covers basic distributed system theory and Alibaba Cloud's core products like MaxCompute, DataWorks, E-MapReduce as well as a bundle of ecosystem tools.
To earn an official Alibaba Cloud certificate please join the Cloud Native courses on the Academy's website:
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- 8 hours
- English
Qualitative Data Collection Methods
This course presents a detailed overview of qualitative methods of data collection, including observation, interviews, and focus group discussions. We will start with an in-depth overview of each method, explore how to plan for data collection, including developing data collection guides, and discuss techniques for managing data collection. For observation, we’ll focus on approaches with low levels of interaction with people and the environment (e.g. non-participant observation). We’ll talk about note-taking strategies, the use of observation guides, and approaches to writing up fieldnotes.
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- 14 hours
- English
Investigating Epidemics like COVID-19: An Analyst's Guide
Do you want to learn how to detect, identify the cause, and decrease the morbidity and mortality from outbreaks or pandemics like COVID-19? Are you considering a career in public health practice, but aren’t sure how health departments collect and use outbreak data?
Are you working in public health, but interested in moving into analytical and/or technical roles or curious how health departments investigate outbreaks? If so, this course is for you.
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- 13 hours
- English
Communicate Effectively about Ethical Challenges in Data-Driven Technologies
Leading a data-driven organization necessitates effective communication to create a culture of ethical practice. Communication to stakeholders will guide an organization's strategy and potentially impact the future of work for that organization or entity. It is not enough to talk about ethical practices, you need to to relate their value to stakeholders. Building out strategies that are inclusive and relatable can build public trust and loyalty, and knowing how to plan for a crisis will reduce the harm to such trust and loyalty.
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- 14 hours
- English
Intermediate PostgreSQL
This course covers a wide range of SQL techniques, beyond basic CRUD (Create, Read, Update, and Delete) operations in PostgreSQL. You will learn the specifics of aggregation, transactions, reading and parsing CSV files and inserting data into a database. You’ll also take a look at how PostgreSQL handles and indexes text data.
Specifically, students will do assignments that alter table schemas, create stored procedures, construct advanced queries, explore sorting and grouping query data, and techniques for working with text in databases including regular expressions.
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- 16 hours
- English
Foundations of Teaching for Learning Capstone: The Reflective Practitioner
This course is open to learners who have completed all eight courses on the Foundations of Teaching for Learning MOOC. It revisits topics covered and focuses on what it really means to be a reflective practitioner. One of the great paradoxes of learning is that the more you know the more you become aware of what you don’t know... and the more you want to know! This course offers an opportunity to further deepen and broaden your professional expertise.
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- 9 hours
- English
The Java Language
This is the second course in the Java as a Second Language Specialization. In this course, we'll take a look at Java data types, discuss what primitive data types are, and explain data classes. We'll also explore characters and strings and you'll add a new class in the lab. Next, we'll take a look at Java Control Structures. We'll explain IF statements, Loops, and arrays, and will discuss Switch Statements and the Java Programming Environment.
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- 7 hours
- English
Design User Interface (UI) Flow to Improve UX in Miro
By the end of this project, you will be able to apply design principles and customer-centric thinking to visualize User Interface (UI) flow with the goal of improving the User Experience (UX).
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- 3 hours
- English
AI, Empathy & Ethics
This nontechnical course provides an overview of artificial intelligence advancements and the ethical challenges we now face as we navigate the development, implementation, and ubiquitous global use of AI.
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- 4 hours
- English
Basics of Statutory Compliance and Taxation
This course is for those interested in starting a career in bookkeeping. The course builds on the knowledge and skills covered in the first two courses in this professional certificate to dive deeper into concepts related to taxation. You will apply those concepts in scenarios using the TallyPrime software.The course includes several real-life business scenarios, charts, images, observations, solved illustrations, and practice scenarios on TallyPrime.
By the end of the course, you will be able to:
- Apply the concept of goods and services tax (GST)
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- 46 hours
- English
AWS Cloudfront: Serve content from multiple S3 buckets
In this 2-hour long project-based course, you will learn how to serve content from multiple S3 buckets using AWS CloudFront from the AWS console Amazon CloudFront is a fast content delivery network (CDN) service that securely delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs to customers globally with low latency, high transfer speeds, all within a developer-friendly environment.
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- 3 hours
- English
Create UI in Unity Part 4 - Make UI Fit Any Aspect Ratio
In this one-hour, project-based course, you will learn how to use Unity's User Interface (UI) Toolkit's Auto Layout System to make the UI elements of your game present correctly on screens of any aspect ratio.
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- 3 hours
- English
Health Impacts of Chemicals in Consumer Products
This course focuses on assessing health impacts of chemicals in products and of fine particulate emitted along the product life cycle. We first develop the assessment framework to assess exposure and health impacts of chemicals in products. We then detail the application of mass-balance approaches to the case of parabens in personal care products.
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- 17 hours
- English
Introduction to Generative AI - Português Brasileiro
Este é um curso de microaprendizagem introdutório que busca explicar a IA generativa: o que é, como é usada e por que ela é diferente de métodos tradicionais de machine learning. O curso também aborda as ferramentas do Google que ajudam você a desenvolver apps de IA generativa.
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- English
Create eye-catching logos using Canva for an ebrand
This Guided Project “Create eye-catching logos using Canva for an ebrand” is a 2-hour long project-based course where you will learn about logos and the design process of creating one according to the specifications in a project brief. You will apply the knowledge to develop different types of logos from scratch by keeping one business theme in mind of your choice or work on the ideas provided to help you get started. You will be presented with the opportunity to identify the design that aligns the best with the brand in question and prepare them for publishing .
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- 3 hours
- English
Teaching Popular Music in the Classroom
Teaching Popular Music in the Classroom explores approaches to teaching popular music from culturally rich communities in the United States. Students in the course will learn teaching methods that engage youth with the basics of improvisation, technology, songwriting, arranging film score, and writing to the strengths of small bands. The course models how to integrate principles of authentic cultural relevance and positive youth development with contemporary music instruction, while providing tools for assessing and documenting learning and program progress.
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- 7 hours
- English
Assessing Conflict
Do you struggle to recognize conflicts early enough? Do you need to learn about the ways you and others face conflict? Learn these skills and more from the Assessing Conflict course!
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- 7 hours
- English
Critical Issues in Urban Education
Urban school reform in the United States is characterized by contentious, politicized debate. This course explores a set of critical issues in the education and educational reform space, with a focus on aspects of the field that have sparked controversy and polarized views. We will dig into these debates, situating them within the larger history of public education and school reform, and considering the viewpoints, the evidence, and translation of issues into educational policy.
We will consider three broad topics in this course:
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- 23 hours
- English
Secure Your Data at Rest
Secure Your Data at Rest is the fifth course in the Microsoft Azure Security Engineer Associate Professional Certificate training program. This course teaches storage security, data sovereignty, database monitoring, encryption, data masking, and using Defender for Cloud for advanced threat protection. You must secure data at rest as this will safeguard sensitive information, prevent unauthorized access, meet regulatory compliance, and ensure data confidentiality and integrity.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Deploy shared access signatures (SAS).
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- 17 hours
- English
Dynamic VPN Gateways - Cloud Routers
This is a self-paced lab that takes place in the Google Cloud console. In this lab you connect two networks using Cloud Routers. Cloud Routers build on top of VPN by enabling BGP Routing that dynamically discovers change…
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Deep Learning with PyTorch : Siamese Network
In this 2-hour long guided-project course, you will learn how to implement a Siamese Network, you will train the network with the Triplet loss function.
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- 3 hours
- English
Create Compelling Business Cases
In this one-week course, we’ll focus on the 5 most crucial elements of a business case, including what is a business case and how it is used to make investment decisions. Whether you are a student or a professional, this course will give you the fundamentals you need, from defining the problem to gathering data and performing a financial analysis. To be successful in this course, you'll need high-school equivalent writing, reading, and math skills. Some spreadsheet familiarity will also be helpful.
By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:
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- 3 hours
- English
Organizational innovation and creativity
This management course focuses on the innovation process by presenting students with methodologies for problem solving and innovation that require research, persistence, and agility.
Students will be encouraged to:
• Synthesize existing ideas, images, concepts, and skill sets in an original way
• Embrace ambiguity
• Support divergent thinking and risk taking
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- 27 hours
- English