March 2023 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
Earning Criteria
Required
Attendance of 90% of program contact hours
90% completion of homework assignments
Completion of the following: 24-week program, with 4 individual & group projects