This course is designed for students with a basic familiarity with R and some experience with data analysis and data manipulation. In just 100 minutes of instructional time, students learn how to think about finding patterns, perform different types of clustering analyses, and evaluate the quality of the results.
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
Find latent patterns and groups in different types of data
Evaluate the accuracy and effectiveness of clustering analyses
Understand the purpose and implications of what clustering methods can and cannot achieve
3 month access: $59
1 year access: $149
Forever access: $349

This course is designed for students who have taken Data Society’s Introduction to R and Visualization course or have a good knowledge of R programming. This 3 ½ hour course teaches students how to apply advanced regression and time series models to accurately predict business trends and demand.
By the end of this course, students will be able to:

1. Identify the most important predictive variables in a model
2. Quantify qualitative variables and incorporate them in a predictive model
3. Build predictive models to anticipate trends and demand
3 month access: $59
1 year access: $149
Forever access: $349

This course is designed for students with a basic familiarity with R and some experience with data analysis and data manipulation. In less than 90 minutes of instructional time, students learn how to create dynamic visualizations in R and embed them into websites or host them on other sites. This course also teaches students how to collect data from different websites and manipulate that data so it can be visualized in R.
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
Create interactive visualizations
Publish dynamic graphs to websites
Collect and manipulate data from almost any website
3 month access: $59
1 year access: $149
Forever access: $349

What tools and people do you need to integrate data into your business? Learn about the tools you need to manage your data, what traits you need to look for when hiring data scientists, and the pitfalls to watch out for as you implement new processes and build teams.
By the end of this course, students will be able to:

1. Identify business cases for using data science and Big Data
2. Understand the data infrastructure and capabilities you need to have in your team
3. Identify the most important qualities when hiring data scientists and data analysts

This course is designed for students who have taken Data Society's Introduction to Network Analysis course and Mining Social Media course or who have good experience in network analysis. This 3 hour course teaches students how to clean and format network data, detect and measure networks and sub-networks, and import email data and visualize it.
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
1. Quantitatively measure the strength of connections between people and groups
2. Detect communities to understand how nodes and individuals group together
3. Identify the most important nodes in a network through a variety of metrics
3 month access: $59
1 year access: $149
Forever access: $349

This course is designed for managers and executives who want to understand how and when powerful data science methods can be applied to drive business forward. In just over 3 hours of instruction time, you will learn the intuition, practical use cases, and pitfalls about the most commonly used data science methods. Improve communication with your data science team and drive your data strategy forward.
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
1. Identify business cases for using data science and Big Data
2. Understand how to apply various powerful data science methods to business problems
3. Understand the requirements and pitfalls of working with each data science method

This course is designed for managers and executives who want to understand how data analytics can be used to drive business forward. In 1 hour of instructional time, you will learn how other companies have used data analysis to drive their business forward, reduce costs, and target new markets.
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
1. Identify business cases for using data science and Big Data
2. Understand how predictive analytics and machine learning can be used to improve supply chain management
3. Understand the pitfalls of working with different types of data, including Big Data

This course is designed for students who are comfortable with R and have experience with data analysis and data manipulation. In just 100 minutes of instructional time, students learn how to think about networks, quantify and analyze network relationships, and identify key nodes in a network.
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
1. Frame a problem from the standpoint of networks and relationships.
2. Calculate and analyze various network measurements to understand the underlying structure.
3. Identify potential weak points and key players to prevent failures or leverage the network.
3 month access: $59
1 year access: $149
Forever access: $349

This course teaches students a new skill set in under 3 hours of instructional video. It’s designed for individuals without a math or programming background and walks them step-by-step through basic data analysis techniques and visualization skills.
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
Think about data and manipulate it
Code and format data in R
Create dynamic and appealing visualizations with R
3 month access: $59
1 year access: $149
Forever access: $349

This course is designed for students who have taken Data Society’s Introduction to Network Analysis course or who have some experience in network analysis. This 2 ½ hour course teaches students how to pull and clean social media data, identify the most important nodes in a network, and build a dispersion simulation within a network.
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
Identify key influencers and discover important connectors
Create a message propagation strategy and simulate it in a model
Analyze networks and visualize them in dynamic graphs
3 month access: $59
1 year access: $149
Forever access: $349