Microsoft Professional Program Data Science Track Microsoft Professional Program Suha GÜNGÖREN

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About Me Suha GÜNGÖREN Database Professional with 20 years of experience Microsoft Certified Trainer since 1998 Focus on MS SQL Server since version 6.5 Studied Business Administration & Economics in Vienna MCSE, MCITP, MCDBA, ... Based in Vienna

Overview The Need for Data Science What is Data Science? Process of Data Science Why Should You Care? Microsoft Data Science Track Data Science Track Study Path What can we do for you? The ETC Offer Q & A

The Need for Data Science Exponentially growing repositories of data Structured (Databases, Data Warehouses, …) Semi-structured (Social media, public domain data, …) Fast changing conditions require quick & accurate decisions Challenges for decision making Human subjectivity (a.k.a. “gut feeling”) is fallible Slow processing

What is Data Science? Turn data into actionable information Interdisciplinary approach Statistics, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Database, Pattern Recognition, Visualization, Data Warehousing, Probability Models, … Used in many problem domains Economics & Finance, Health Care, Search Engines, Social Sciences, …

Process of Data Science Data Collection Data Processing Data Cleansing Exploratory Analysis Models & Algorithms Visualization & Reporting Decision Making

Why Should You Care? Growing demand for Data Science and Data Scientists Skills applicable across a broad spectrum of domains & industries No sell by date for skills acquired! Know how based on mathematics & statistics Know how based on widely accepted industry standards & de facto standards

Microsoft Data Science Track Self paced online courses covering core areas & skills Content delivered by experienced practitioners and academicians Hosted on the edX platform Four runs in a year Each run concludes with a “Capstone Project” Cortana Intelligence Competition Digital certificates available for individual courses and the program as a whole

Microsoft Professional Program DATA SCIENCE @ ETC Details unter https://www.etc.at/microsoft/microsoft-professional-program-in-data-science/

What can we do for you? The ETC Offer Comprehensive trainer led learning offer consisting of Classic MOC Courses Querying Data with T-SQL Data Warehousing PowerBI … Data Science Track Courses - New Offering Track Overview / Q & A Intro into Statistics Statistics for Data Scientists Introduction to R for Data Scientists Programming with R Azure Machine Learning “Capstone Project” Workshop Data Science Track Courses will be aligned with the official track schedules

Q & A Any questions? Contact me: suha@datalab.at Contact ETC: www.etc.at office@etc.at

Links & Ressources Microsoft Data Science Program edX Short History of Data Science What is Data Science? Cortana Intelligence Gallery

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