Statistical Learning for Data Science Coursera

Overview

Statistical Learning is a crucial specialization for those pursuing a career in data science or seeking to enhance their expertise in the field. This Statistical Learning for Data Science course offered by Coursera in partnership with University of Colorado Boulder builds upon your foundational knowledge of statistics and equips you with advanced techniques for model selection, including regression, classification, trees, SVM, unsupervised learning, splines, and resampling methods. 

Additionally, you will gain an in-depth understanding of coefficient estimation and interpretation, which will be valuable in explaining and justifying your models to clients and companies. 

Through this specialization, you will acquire conceptual knowledge and communication skills to effectively convey the rationale behind your model choices and coefficient interpretations.

Key facts

• This specialization can be taken for academic credit as part of CU Boulder’s Master of Science in Data Science (MS-DS) degree offered on the Coursera platform. 

• The MS-DS is an interdisciplinary degree that brings together faculty from CU Boulder’s departments of Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Science, and others. 

• With performance-based admissions and no application process, the MS-DS is ideal for individuals with a broad range of undergraduate education and/or professional experience in computer science, information science, mathematics, and statistics.

Applied Learning Project

• Throughout the specialization, learners will complete many programming assignments designed to help learners master statistical learning concepts, including regression, classification, trees, SVM, unsupervised learning, splines, and resampling methods.

What You Will Learn:

• Express why Statistical Learning is important and how it can be used.

• Apply many regression and classification techniques.

• Explain the pros and cons of certain models in certain situations.