IBM DATA SCIENCE PROFESSIONAL CERT.

MODULE 1 What Do Data Scientists Do?

1. WHAT IS DATA SCIENCE?  A Day in the Life of a Data Scientist
SYLLABUS:-
 Data Science Skills & Big Data
Defining Data Science
 Working on Different File Formats
 Defining Data Science
 Data Science Topics and Algorithms
 Video: What is Data Science?
 Discussion Prompt: Introduce Yourself
 Fundamentals of Data Science
 Reading: What Makes Someone a Data
 The Many Paths to Data Science
Scientist?
 Data Science: The Sexiest Job in the 21st
Century
 Defining Data Science
 Advice for New Data Scientists
 Data Science Topics
$ Big Data and Data Mining $ Deep Learning and Machine Learning

 How Big Data is Driving Digital  Artificial Intelligence and Data Science
Transformation  Generative AI and Data Science
 Introduction to Cloud  Neural Networks and Deep Learning
 Cloud for Data Science  Applications of Machine Learning
 Foundations of Big Data  Reading: Regression
 Data Scientists at New York University  Lab: Exploring Data using IBM Cloud
 What is Hadoop? Gallery

 Big Data Processing Tools: Hadoop,

HDFS, Hive, and Spark
 Reading: Data Mining
Applications and Careers in Data Science: Careers and Recruiting in Data Science
Data Science Application Domains  How Can Someone Become a Data
 How Should Companies Get Started in Scientist?
Data Science?  Recruiting for Data Science
 Old Problems with New Data Science  Careers in Data Science
Solutions  Importance of Mathematics and
 Applications of Data Science Statistics for Data Science (only name
 How Data Science is Saving Lives change)

 Reading: The Final Deliverable  The Report Structure

 Reading: Info graph on roadmap
 Data Literacy for Data Science  Considerations for Choice of Data
(Optional): Repository
Understanding Data  Data Integration Platforms
 Understanding Data
 Data Sources
 Working on Varied Data Sources and
Types
 Reading: Metadata
Data Literacy
 Data Collection and Organization
 Relational Database Management
System
 NoSQL
 Data Marts, Data Lakes, ETL, and Data
Pipelines
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analyze
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Data science is the study of large
quantities of data, which can reveal
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strategic choices. CSV, and regression.
 There are many paths to a career in data
science; most, but not all, involve math,
programming, and curiosity about data.
 New data scientists need to be curious,
judgemental and argumentative.
 Knowledgeable data scientists are in
high demand. Jobs in data science pays
high salaries for skilled workers.
 The typical work day for a Data Scientist
varies depending on what type of
project they are working on.
 Many algorithms are used to bring out
insights from data.
 Some key data science related terms
you learned in this lesson include: