The capstone project class will allow students to create a usable/public data product that can be used to show your skills to potential employers. Projects will be drawn from real-world problems and will be conducted with industry, government, and academic partners.
Data Science Capstone
Data Science Capstone
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Instructors: Jeff Leek, PhD
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What you'll learn
Create a useful data product for the public
Apply your exploratory data analysis skills
Build an efficient and accurate prediction model
Produce a presentation deck to showcase your findings
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Assessments
3 assignments
Taught in English
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There are 7 modules in this course
This week, we introduce the project so you can get a clear grip on the problem at hand and begin working with the dataset.
What's included
7 videos6 readings1 assignment
This week, we move on to the next tasks, exploratory data analysis and modeling. You'll also submit your milestone report and review submissions from your classmates.
What's included
2 videos2 readings1 peer review
This week, you'll build and evaluate your prediction model. The goal is to make your model efficient and accurate.
What's included
1 video1 reading1 assignment
This week's goal is to improve the predictive accuracy while reducing computational runtime and model complexity.
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1 video1 reading1 assignment
This week, you'll work on developing the first component of your final project, your data product.
What's included
1 video1 reading
This week, you'll work on developing the second component of your final project, a slide deck to accompany your data product.
What's included
1 video1 reading
This week, you'll submit your final project and review the work of your classmates.
What's included
1 video1 peer review
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SM
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Reviewed on Oct 22, 2018
The content of this course is very good and the assignments test the knowledge gained
DL
5
Reviewed on Mar 20, 2021
Course capstone is too tough for beginners. Requires Natural Language Processing knowledge in advance. Also the method used is outdated already since it was launched 4 years ago.
VS
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Reviewed on Aug 30, 2020
Could improve on detailing the material , adding more technical stuff, but then again data science is very vast and it is best i the students explore things on their own
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