Graduate Certificate in Fundamental Data Science and Analytics

With the Certificate in Fundamental Data Science and Analytics, you gain the necessary knowledge base and useful skills to manage large data sets and present real-world data analytics challenges with the use of statistical modelling and data visualization tools.

A unique feature of the program in Data Science and Analytics offered by the University of Calgary is the experiential learning component of the program. As a student, you will get hands-on experience with data from the industry made available through our network of company contacts. This learning experience plays a critical role in knowledge construction and understanding the crucial role of data within organizations.

What You’ll Learn

• Data Collection – Applying automated, manual, and hybrid approaches to elicit, sense, simulate, or otherwise capture data.
• Data Cleaning – Transforming raw, noisy, incomplete, or otherwise dirty data into forms that can support further analysis.
• Exploratory Analytics – Using visualization, statistics, and other techniques to examine new data and identify possible opportunities for analysis.
• Statistical & Computational Analytics – Applying computational, mathematical, or statistical techniques and models to make sense of and extract knowledge from data.
• Presentation – Using visual, oral, and written approaches to communicate analysis processes, observations, and results.

The certificate program consists of four intensive courses and will expose you to all phases of the Data Science and Analytics Pipeline.