Applied Data Science Capstone

Course Overview

Skills and Knowledge Acquired:
This course will provide students with the opportunity to apply the skills and knowledge acquired in the IBM Data Science Professional Certificate and Applied Data Science with Python Specialization. Students will gain experience in data collection, data wrangling, exploratory data analysis, data visualization, model development, model evaluation, and reporting results to stakeholders. Additionally, students will develop a project to add to their data science and machine learning portfolio to showcase to employers.


Contribution to Professional Growth:
This course contributes to professional growth by providing an opportunity to practice the work of a data scientist in a real-world setting. Through the course, students will gain experience in data collection, data wrangling, exploratory data analysis, data visualization, model development, model evaluation, and reporting results to stakeholders. By completing the course, students will have a project to add to their data science and machine learning portfolio, which can be used to demonstrate their skills to potential employers.


Suitability for Further Education:
This course is suitable for preparing further education as it provides an opportunity to practice the work of a data scientist in a real-life setting. The course tasks students with predicting the success of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch, and requires them to use the data science methodology to collect, wrangle, analyze, visualize, and model data. By completing the course, students will have a project to add to their data science and machine learning portfolio to showcase to employers.