Certificate in Data Science

Acquire Valuable Insights From Data Sets

Businesses and organizations today have ready access to huge amounts of data, but they can be less adept at making sense of it. The role of the data scientist — turning data into meaningful, actionable insights — is increasingly crucial as companies strive to stay ahead of the competition.

In this three-course certificate program, you’ll discover how to apply cutting-edge tools and processes to extract meaning from data sets. Use statistics, machine learning and algorithms, and other techniques to analyze real-life data scenarios and help make informed business decisions. Take your data analytics abilities, and your career, to the next level.

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

• How to build a data science pipeline
• Data exploration and visualization with large data sets
• Advanced statistical techniques and machine learning algorithims
• How to apply data science to business problems, scientific research, marketing and other fields

GET HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE

• Use the Python programming language to manipulate and display data
• Complete a capstone project to demonstrate your data science skills

LEARNING FORMATS

ONLINE, SELF-PACED

Enjoy the flexibility of learning at your own pace, with instructor support along the way. Courses are 100 percent online, with no class meetings or fixed deadlines — so you can start anytime. You have up to four months to complete each course and up to two years to complete the program.

CLASSROOM

Attend classes part time at one of our convenient locations in the Puget Sound region. You’ll engage face to face with your classmates and instructors as part of a highly interactive curriculum