Start your career in data science! Apply strategies and tools to develop any type of information system.
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No prior knowledge required
No unnecessary risks
This program is designed for people in the computer field who are interested in entering the information systems field and learning about the different types of requirements, architectures, performance, techniques, and tools that will allow you to know when to use business intelligence, data mining, data science, databases, in-memory databases, or big data.
Over the course of 4 courses, you will delve into the areas of:
The courses prepare you to become information systems consultants or data scientists.
In this project, you will design, implement, and query a transactional database system for a bookstore. The system will include books, authors, stores, and sales details.
In this project, you will design and implement an analytical database system. You will program and run OLAP queries on the data warehouse.
Project: Analyzing Book Sales in a NoSQL Database. In this project, you will design, implement, and query a NoSQL database system for a bookstore using MongoDB.
In this project, you will design a recommendation system for reading books and sales stored in a distributed parallel database.
Course 1
15 hours
4.4 (444 ratings)
Welcome to the Relational Database Systems Expertise Course. This course will be completed in six weeks, and will be supported by various videos and documents that will allow you to easily learn about different types of information systems and databases.
A learner will be able to design, test, and implement analytical, transactional, or NoSQL database systems according to business requirements.
Course 2
10 hours
3.8 (99 ratings)
Welcome to the Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing Expertise Course. This course will be completed in six weeks, and will be supported by video and various documents.
Course 3
9 hours
4.3 (164 ratings)
Welcome to the NoSQL Systems Expertise Course. This course will be completed in six weeks, and will be supported by video and exercises.
Course 4
6 hours
4.2 (38 ratings)
Welcome to the Data-Intensive Application Design Expertise Course. This course will be completed over four weeks, and will be supported by video and exercises.



