Goal: To Get a Job or Earn US College Credits | Salary: ₹6-10 lakh | Professional Certificate | No Degree or Prior Experience Needed | Taught by IBM Staff | Duration: 5 Months
A job-oriented 10-course series that helps you begin a career as a Junior Data Scientist, Data Scientist, Data Architect or other data science professional. You can also use to earn credits for US college courses. Created by IBM staff, the course helps you learn practical and job-ready skills besides earning professional credentials from IBM.
What You’ll Learn
- Master the most up-to-date practical skills and knowledge that data scientists use in their daily roles
- Learn the tools, languages, and libraries used by professional data scientists, including Python and SQL
- Import and clean data sets, analyse and visualize data, and build machine learning models and pipelines
- Apply your new skills to real-world projects and build a portfolio of data projects that showcase your proficiency to employers
What You’ll Earn
- ₹6-10 lakh per year is the average beginner salary for an IBM Data Science Professional in India (Source: glassdoor.co.in, in.indeed.com, collegedunia.com)
- $138,000+ per year is the median salary for an IBM Data Science Professional in the US (Source: Lightcast™ US Job Postings)
Details
This 10-course program helps you learn in-demand skills and tools to get job-ready in less than 5 months, with no prior experience needed. The program teaches you about databases, data visualisation, statistical analysis, predictive modelling, machine learning algorithms, and data mining.
You will also work with the latest languages, tools,and libraries including Python, SQL, Jupyter notebooks, Github, Rstudio, Pandas, Numpy, ScikitLearn, Matplotlib, and more.
After completing the program, you will have built a portfolio of data science projects to provide you with the confidence to excel in your interviews. You will also receive access to join IBM’s Talent Network where you’ll see job opportunities as soon as they are posted, recommendations matched to your skills and interests, and tips and tricks to help you stand apart from the crowd.
This program is ACE® recommended—when you complete, you can earn up to 12 college credits if you are pursuing a US college degree.
Applied Learning Project
This Professional Certificate has a strong emphasis on applied learning and includes a series of hands-on labs in the IBM Cloud that give you practical skills with applicability to real jobs.
Tools you will use include: Jupyter / JupyterLab, GitHub, R Studio, and Watson Studio
Libraries you will use include: Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib, Seaborn, Folium, ipython-sql, Scikit-learn, ScipPy, etc.
Here are the projects you will complete:
- Use SQL to query census, crime, and school demographic data sets
- Wrangle data, graph plots, and create regression models to predict housing prices with data science Python libraries
- Create a dynamic Python dashboard to monitor, report, and improve US domestic flight reliability
- Apply and compare machine learning classification algorithms to predict whether a loan case will be paid off or not
- Train and compare machine learning models to predict if a space launch can reuse the first stage of a rocket
