Professional Certificate in Data Science

There is a growing demand for data scientists in government, academia, industry and other sectors. The HarvardX Data Science program equips you with the knowledge and skills necessary to solve real-world data analysis problems. This program covers topics such as probability and inference and machine learning. It also helps you to develop essential skills like R programming, data wrangling using dplyr and data visualization with ggplot2. File organization with Unix/Linux is also included. Version control with git or GitHub is also available. You can also prepare reproducible documents with RStudio.

Each course uses motivating case studies and asks specific questions. Then, we learn through data analysis. These case studies include: Trends in World Health and Economics; US Crime Rates; The Financial Crisis of 2007–2008; Election Forecasting; Building a Baseball Team (inspire by Moneyball); and Movie Recommendation Systems.

We will use R throughout the program. R, statistical concepts and data analysis techniques will all be covered simultaneously. It is our belief that it is easier to retain R knowledge if you are able to solve specific problems.