Duration: 8 weeks (excluding orientation)
In today's data-centric world, businesses require professionals who can extract meaningful insights from data to facilitate better decision-making. The University of Cape Town (UCT) offers the Data Science with Python online short course to enable individuals to acquire practical data science and analysis skills that can be applied in everyday business scenarios.
During the eight-week course, you’ll become familiar with Python libraries widely used in various industries and learn how to employ these methods to solve day-to-day business challenges. The data science course provides an introduction to statistical learning, which lays the foundation for the mechanics of machine learning. You’ll examine tree-based models and neural networks for supervised learning, K-means, and hierarchical clustering for unsupervised learning. Additionally, you’ll learn about the process of discovering more robust patterns to ensure that the models are useful.
