5 Best Free Data Science Courses to Upgrade your Skills During COVID-2019

When will be the next time you would have so much time in your hands? It seems like a ‘blue-moon’ kinda time, right? I believe COVID-2019 pandemic is the best time to get immersed into a new skill or just upgrade your skills because what’s coming forth is a golden time to put those learnings to practice. 

For all the enthusiasts who have had a spiked interest in the field of data science, you are just gonna be mind-blown at the plethora of free courses flooding the internet by the best educators of the world! This is the best time to bolster your data science knowhow! 

You might already be very confused which course to choose as are numerous free data science courses already on the internet. So just to ease your mind here is a simple list of top 5 universities who are facilitating world-class learning into the field of data science.  

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1. Statistical Learning - Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences (Free)
2. Deep Learning Specialization by Andrew Ng’s deeplearning.ai (Free)
3. Tableau by Kirill Eremenko from SuperDataScience Team (Cost $9.16)
4. CS50's Introduction to Artificial Intelligence with Python by Gordon McKay (Free)
5. Crash Course on Artificial Intelligence by Developers from Google (Free)

Statistical Learning - Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences (free)

If you want to dive into an introductory course in supervised learning then this is the best choice! This course focuses on linear and polynomial regression, logistic regression and linear discriminant analysis; cross-validation and the bootstrap, model selection, and regularization methods (ridge and lasso); nonlinear models, splines and generalized additive models; tree-based methods, random forests and boosting; support-vector machines. Some unsupervised learning methods are discussed: principal components and clustering (k-means and hierarchical).

Oh, wait! If you are wondering this is a math-heavy class then you will be delighted to know that it isn’t. Lectures are devoted to one to the most underrated learning languages - R. So gear-up and enroll before its time to get into the worldly mesh.

Deep Learning Specialization by Andrew Ng’s deeplearning.ai 

This course is created and taught by Dr. Andrew Ng, a global leader in AI and co-founder of Coursera. Deep Learning is one of the hottest topics in the current scenario. From large corporations to start-ups and anything in between are all in to explore this golden field. 

It’s a fact that deep learning is one of the buzzing fields that has made the most astonishing discoveries possible. Who would have thought DeepMind’s AlphaGo could defeat Lee Sedol, one of the best Go players (its the toughest game on the planet!). Google Translate and Mobileye’s autonomous driving are the other two most important outcomes of Deep Learning. From identifying faces, reading handwriting, translating languages, recognizing speech to controlling self-driven cars, it does it all!

So this is the perfect course for you to cruise ahead in your data science career, of course, taught by the world’s best mind!

Tableau by Kirill Eremenko from SuperDataScience Team (Cost $9.16)

Tableau is leading the business of data visualization. The best part about Tableau is that it offers instantaneous insights with simple drag and drop features. It enables you to create rich and insightful visualizations in seconds and you know what’s amazing - it handles copious amounts of data.

Tableau boasts a mobile-friendly dashboard and its centric feature is that this incredible BI tool lets you integrate with R or Python, thus helping you amplify data with visual analytics. If you ask me then I find it extremely useful in the BFSI arena. Many big banking giants use tableau to extract the best insights from massaged data.

Who wouldn’t want to learn this awesome tool and too when its thaught by the world’s best visualization teacher Mr. Kirill Eremenko? So why wait just go for it! 

CS50's Introduction to Artificial Intelligence with Python by Gordon McKay

AI is transforming how we live, work, and play - Harward University

You get a chance to get your hands dirty with this terrific course by Harward University. This course is an enabler for you to take the first step towards solving real-world problems and making your career future proof.

CS50’s Introduction to Artificial Intelligence with Python explores the concepts and algorithms at the foundation of modern artificial intelligence, diving into the ideas that give rise to technologies like game-playing engines, handwriting recognition, and machine translation. 

Through hands-on projects, students gain exposure to the theory behind graph search algorithms, classification, optimization, reinforcement learning, and other topics in artificial intelligence and machine learning as they incorporate them into their own Python programs. 

By course’s end, you will be able to design intelligent systems of your own! So buckle you and take this ride!

Crash Course on Artificial Intelligence by Developers from Google 

The world says it perfectly well - Google is our best teacher! Learn all about machine learning from the world’s most efficient company itself. This course will enable you to learn and apply fundamental machine learning concepts with the Crash Course, get real-world experience with the companion Kaggle competition, or visit Learn with Google AI to explore the full library of training resources. I guess this explanation is enough to get you all excited to start the crash course

Conclusion

No good things in the world come for free, err wait! Who said that? In fact in this pandemic situation, most human things like education are coming to us for free and it is upon us to make the most of it. 

Don’t miss out on this once in a lifetime opportunity to learn anything you wish to your heart’s content. And for all you data science enthusiasts, this isolation time is your ‘golden era’, dwell in and shine all your life!

If you know about any other best courses available then do write to me. I would love to know more about it, anyways who does not like to indulge in some good learning, right?