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September 2024 Penn Data Science Boot Camp in collaboration with edX

Through the Penn Data Boot Camp, participants learn from skilled instructors and gain real-world experience by collaborating with peers on complex projects. Participants also have the opportunity to build a comprehensive portfolio along the way. Earners of this certificate: -Gained deep proficiencies with core Python, data analytic tools like NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, and specific libraries for interacting with web data like Requests and Beautiful Soup -Organized data into well-structured and easily retrievable data formats using PostgreSQL and MongoDB -Created new, interactive data visualizations to share on the web with core technologies of web development (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) The curriculum covered the foundational skills for data science, including: Intermediate Excel -Pivot tables -VBA scripting Fundamental statistics -Modeling -Forecasting Python Programming -Python 3 -NumPy -SciPy -Pandas -Matplotlib -API interactions Databases -PostgreSQL/pgAdmin -MongoDB -Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) Front end web visualization -HTML -CSS -Bootstrap -Dashboarding -JavaScript charting -Geomapping with Leaflet.js Business intelligence software -Tableau Advanced topics -Data ethics -Big data analytics with Hadoop -Supervised machine learning -Unsupervised machine learning -Deep learning Browse the full curriculum: https://bootcamp.sas.upenn.edu/data/curriculum/

Skills / Knowledge

  • Microsoft Excel
  • VBA script
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Python
  • APIs
  • NumPy
  • SciPy
  • Pandas
  • Matplotlib
  • SQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • ETL Process
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript charting
  • Tableau
  • Machine Learning
  • Data ethics
  • Hadoop
  • Leaflet

Issued on

March 27, 2025

Expires on

Does not expire

Earning Criteria

Required

participation
Attendance of 90% of program contact hours
reading
90% completion of homework assignments
course
Completion of the following: 24-week program, with 4 individual & group projects