Data Analytics Graduate Certificate

Advance your career

The ways that businesses, researchers, and governments use data are rapidly changing, and the amount of data across all sectors is estimated to double every 1.2 years. In this increasingly data-driven global environment, the need for data analytics experts grows every day. When you complete this certificate program, you will be prepared for careers like:

• Data scientist at Yelp Inc.
• Data platform engineer at Egen Solutions
• Data scientist intern at Airbnb
• User interface developer intern at Micron Technology, Inc.

Pursue your education from anywhere

The Data Analytics Graduate Certificate is 100% online, meaning you can become a data expert from home. Some required courses are also offered at the Boston campus, if you want to complete them in person.

Learning outcomes

When you complete this certificate, you will be able to:

• Use standard tools for data acquisition/management
• Use statistical tests and models to quantitatively analyze large and complex data sets.
• Select, plan, and implement storage, search, and retrieval components of structured and unstructured information repositories.
• Provide data scientists with properly structured, accurate, and reliable access to information needed for investigation.
• Set up and run learning algorithms on data sets, test models on new data, and evaluate results.
• Use R to explore data, produce summary statistics, and perform statistical analyses; use packages for data mining and machine learning; and use visualization tools to present and evaluate data.
• Use visualization techniques to support the discovery and presentation of information.
• Choose appropriate visual languages for representing various types of data.
• Communicate the results of data analysis to nonexpert audiences.