Lesson 1
An Introduction to Your Nanodegree Program
Welcome! We're so glad you're here. Join us in learning a bit more about what to expect and ways to succeed.
Data Scientist
Nanodegree Program
Get hands-on experience running data pipelines, designing experiments, building recommendation systems, and more.
Get hands-on experience running data pipelines, designing experiments, building recommendation systems, and more.
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4 months
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Last Updated April 30, 2024
scikit-learn • Interpreting test results • Smart experiments • Experiment control
Python data analysis libraries • Basic statistical modeling • Relational database basics
Courses In This Program
Course 1 • 1 hour
Welcome to the Data Scientist Nanodegree Program
Lesson 1
An Introduction to Your Nanodegree Program
Welcome! We're so glad you're here. Join us in learning a bit more about what to expect and ways to succeed.
Lesson 2
Getting Help
You are starting a challenging but rewarding journey! Take 5 minutes to read how to get help with projects and content.
Lesson 3
The Skills That Set You Apart
Course 2 • 3 weeks
Introduction to Data Science
Learn the data science process, including how to build effective data visualizations, and how to communicate with various stakeholders.
Lesson 1
Welcome to the Course
This lesson will give you an overview of the course, discuss pre-requisites and stakeholders.
Lesson 2
The Data Science Process
In this lesson, you will learn about CRISP-DM and how you can apply it to many data science problems.
Lesson 3
Communicating to Stakeholders
In this lesson, you will be creating a post to communicate your findings via Medium.
Lesson 4 • Project
Project: Writing a Data Scientist Blog Post
In this project, you will create a blog post and Github repository that you can use as you build your data science portfolio.
Course 3 • 18 hours
Software Engineering
Software engineering skills are increasingly important for data scientists. In this course, you'll learn best practices for writing software. Then you'll work on your software skills by coding a Python package and a web data dashboard.
Lesson 1
Introduction to Software Engineering
Welcome to Software Engineering for Data Scientists! Learn about the course and meet your instructors.
Lesson 2
Software Engineering Practices Pt I
Learn software engineering practices and how they apply in data science. Part one covers clean and modular code, code efficiency, refactoring, documentation, and version control.
Lesson 3
Software Engineering Practices Pt II
Learn software engineering practices and how they apply in data science. Part two covers testing code, logging, and conducting code reviews.
Lesson 4
Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming
Learn the basics of object-oriented programming so that you can build your own Python package.
Lesson 5
Portfolio Exercise: Upload a Package to PyPi
Create your own Python package and upload your package to PyPi.
Lesson 6
Web Development
Develop a data dashboard using Flask, Bootstrap, Plotly and Pandas.
Lesson 7
Portfolio Exercise: Deploy a Data Dashboard
Customize the data dashboard from the previous lesson to make it your own. Upload the dashboard to the web.
Course 4 • 1 month
Data Engineering
In data engineering for data scientists, you will practice building ETL, NLP, and machine learning pipelines. This will prepare you for the project with our industry partner Figure 8.
Lesson 1
Introduction to Data Engineering
You will get an introduction to the data engineering for data scientists course and project. The lessons include ETL pipelines, natural language pipelines, and machine learning pipelines.
Lesson 2
ETL Pipelines
ETL stands for extract, transform, and load. This is the most common type of data pipeline, and you will practice each step in this lesson.
Lesson 3
NLP Pipelines
In order to complete the project at the end of the course, you will need some natural language processing skills. Here you will practice engineering machine learning features from text data.
Lesson 4
Machine Learning Pipelines
You'll use the Scikit-Learn package to code a machine learning pipeline. With these skills, you can ingest data, create features, and train a machine learning algorithm in just one step.
Lesson 5 • Project
Project: Disaster Response Pipeline
You’ll build a machine learning pipeline to categorize emergency messages based on the needs communicated by the sender.
Taught By The Best
Josh Bernhard
Staff Data Scientist
Josh has been sharing his passion for data for over a decade. He's used data science for work ranging from cancer research to process automation. He recently has found a passion for solving data science problems within marketplace companies.
Mike Yi
Data Analyst Instructor
Mike is a content developer with a multidisciplinary academic background, including math, statistics, physics, and psychology. Previously, he worked on Udacity's Data Analyst Nanodegree program as a support lead.
Judit Lantos
Senior Data Engineer at Netflix
Judit is a Senior Data Engineer at Netflix. Formerly a Data Engineer at Split, where she worked on the statistical engine of their full-stack experimentation platform, she has also been an instructor at Insight Data Science, helping software engineers and academic coders transition to DE roles.
David Drummond
VP of Engineering at Insight
David is VP of Engineering at Insight where he enjoys breaking down difficult concepts and helping others learn data engineering. David has a PhD in Physics from UC Riverside.
Andrew Paster
Instructor
Andrew has an engineering degree from Yale, and has used his data science skills to build a jewelry business from the ground up. He has additionally created courses for Udacity's Self-Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree program.
Juno Lee
Instructor
As a data scientist at Looplist, Juno built neural networks to analyze and categorize product images, a recommendation system to personalize shopping experiences for each user, and tools to generate insight into user behavior.
Luis Serrano
Instructor
Luis was formerly a Machine Learning Engineer at Google. He holds a PhD in mathematics from the University of Michigan, and a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Quebec at Montreal.
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