Center for Continuing and Professional Education

Georgetown’s Advanced Data Science Certificate engages and equips data science practitioners with the technical and leadership skills required to deploy data products that integrate the latest advances in data engineering, visualization, machine learning, and ethical AI. Using a unique format that combines lectures, workshops, and seminars, the certificate allows students to engage with topics critical to their work, and to connect with and learn from academic and industry experts as well as peers. Designed with a rapidly changing and evolving technical landscape in mind, the certificate is ideal for professional data scientists who want to keep their skills current and enhance their managerial and leadership techniques. 

The program is designed to allow students to participate across a variety of offerings, enabling them to choose the elements that best integrate with their career paths. Courses are taught as a mixture of lectures and workshops. During lectures, you’ll be exposed to the latest developments in visualization, AI, and data science leadership with demos from machine creativity to facial recognition to cloud-hosted databases. Workshops allow students to get hands-on experience working with cutting-edge tools and techniques from deep learning and data visualization to big data governance and data science team building. Finally, seminars allow students to hear critical and timely topics from experts from the dangers of AI to impacts and outlooks of recent innovations in predictive medicine, machine translation, autonomous vehicles, and more. 

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