Big data means big career opportunities
Program Overview
The online Data Analytics Certificate Program will teach you how to solve a broad range of problems using a variety of predictive analytics and statistical techniques. The program focuses on examining the vast amounts of data now generated by organizations and their customers and employees during online transactions, in order to develop informed strategies. It is designed to enhance the ability of professionals from any field to utilize data analytics and big data when making decisions. You will learn to apply statistical machine learning and other techniques to data sets, and you will discover how to collaborate with information technology and other specialists in collecting, maintaining and analyzing data to better inform decisions.
The program provides a 100% project-based, learn-by-doing experience, and while the program is online, our program participants are not alone. As a cohort-based online program, our participants often work on their projects in small groups, and all participants are matched to an expert data science mentor, who provides help, advice and feedback throughout the course of the program.
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Employment Outlook
- 90% of enterprise analytics and business professionals currently say data and analytics are key to their organization’s digital transformation initiatives. MicroStrategy 2018 Global State of Enterprise Analytics Report
- By 2020, there will be 2.7 million job postings for data science and analytics roles. BHEF and PwC America’s Data Science and Analytics Talent: The Case for Action Report
- 64% of enterprise organizations say that over the next year, they are planning to invest more in hiring data and analytics talent. MicroStrategy 2018 Global State of Enterprise Analytics Report
- Analytics has emerged as the engine to drive businesses forward, however lack of analytics talent will remain the key issue in mainstream adoption. Analytics India Magzine: Analytics in SE Asia 2019
Salary Outlook
- Thailand Data Analyst on average THB 305,000 as much as THB 552,000. Payscale expected ROI: >300%
- Singapore Data Analyst on avaerage S$ 55,000 as much as S$ 88,000. Glassdoor expected ROI: >900%
- And best news of all, graduates of the program have the opportunity of getting hired as mentors as well!
Unique Program Approach
Learning Outcomes
- Learn Python, Rapid Miner, R, R Studio, SQL, Hadoop, Machine Learning, Numpy, Pandas, Elastic Map Reduce, Amazon Web Services and more
- Translate business objectives into data mining opportunities
- Install, run and apply statistical machine learning tools to different kinds of data
- Apply data mining in e-commerce becoming broadly competent in the use of the statistical machine learning techniques of classification and regression
- Acquire, process and analyze extremely large data sets using cloud-based data mining methods to do data exploration, discover patterns and answer business questions
- Develop the confidence to succeed as a professional analyst by building a Professional Portfolio that includes end-to-end project experience on practical data analytics projects
Program Duration:
Part-time: 40 weeks (15h/week)
Full-time: 20 weeks (30h/week)
Prerequisites:
Applicants are required to have:
- One year of work experience (no need to be technical).
- Resonable level of computer literacy.
- Familiarity with Windows, Mac or Linux operating systems, specifically:
- Creating and managing folders within folders.
- Creating and extracting files from zip archives.
- Elementary administrative tasks (e.g., installing software requiring admin privileges).
- Basic familiarity with Microsoft Office or equivalent.
Previous knowledge of statistics is helpful, but not required.
Additional Information:
This course is offered in collaboration with XTOL.
Recommended Pre-work
- Take a tour of RapidMiner
- Read Section 1 in Data Mining for the Masses
- Work through designated exercises in the RapidMiner Learn tutorials