HarvardX - Dive into data this summer ☀️

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Embark on a data-driven adventure.

In today’s ever-evolving world, data has become the core of any growing modern business. From the health-care to the advertising industries, the ability to collect, analyze, and extract insights from data is key to making informed decisions, uncovering hidden patterns, and gaining a competitive edge. Harvard Online has compiled this data-focused round-up of courses, webinars, blog posts, and more to help you begin to navigate our data-driven society:

Data-focused Courses

Data Privacy and Technology

Explore legal and ethical implications of one’s personal data, the risks and rewards of data collection and surveillance, and the needs for policy, advocacy, and privacy monitoring.

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Data Science Principles

Data Science Principles gives you an overview of data science with a code- and math-free introduction to prediction, causality, data wrangling, privacy, and ethics.

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Introduction to Data Wise

Learn a clear, 8-step process for using a wide range of data sources to improve educational instruction. You will see what this disciplined way of working with colleagues can look and feel like in a school setting.

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Big Data for Social Good

The Big Data for Social Good online professional certificate series will teach you how to use big data, coupled with the tools of data science and economics, to solve some of the most important social problems of our time.

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Earn a Professional Certificate in Data Science

The HarvardX Data Science program prepares you with the necessary knowledge base and useful skills to tackle real-world data analysis challenges. The program covers concepts such as probability, inference, regression, and machine learning and helps you develop an essential skill set that includes R programming, data wrangling with dplyr, data visualization with ggplot2, file organization with Unix/Linux, version control with git and GitHub, and reproducible document preparation with RStudio.

Courses in this certificate program include:

Data Science: R Basics Data Science: Visualization Data Science: Probability Data Science: Interfering and Modeling Data Science: Productivity Tools	Data Science: Wrangling Data Science: Linear Regression Data Science: Machine Learning Data Science: Capstone

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Webinars

Putting Data to Work
Yael Grushka-Cockayne and Dustin Tingley discuss the importance of data science in business.

Keeping Your Data Secure
A discussion about the data privacy trade-offs and challenges presented by today’s ever-changing role of technology.

The Future of Generative AI: Expert Insights and Predictions
Harvard leaders gather to share their thoughts on the impacts of new artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies.

Blog Posts

Jim and Mike on Password Security and LastPass
Leaders in the fields of computer science and data privacy answer questions about this LastPass breach and offer their thoughts on ways you can protect your personal data and accounts.

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Professor Dustin Tingley Explains How Data Science Is For Everyone
We spoke with Data Science Principles instructor Professor Dustin Tingley to discuss his mixed career path, his upcoming book, and his data-driven outlook on the future of technology and our world.

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The Emergence of Intelligent Edge Computing: An Interview with Professor Vijay Janapa Reddi on the Fusion of AI and TinyML
Associate Professor in the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) at Harvard University, Vijay Janapa Reddi answers questions about the development of AI and ChatGPT.