What you will learn

Participants will learn the following:

• The history of data science, tangible illustrations of how data science and analytics are used in decision making across multiple sectors today, and expert opinion on what the future might hold

• A practical understanding of the fundamental methods used by data scientists including; statistical thinking and conditional probability, machine learning and algorithms, and effective approaches for data visualization

• The major components of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the potential of IoT to totally transform the way in which we live and work in the not-to-distant future

• How data scientists are using natural language processing (NLP), audio and video processing to extract useful information from books, scientific articles, twitter feeds, voice recordings, YouTube videos and much more.

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Who Should Attend?

• This course is suitable for anyone who needs to parse through data and use data analysis in their job role. This includes business Managers, Executives, strategists, programme/project managers, analysts, business process managers, etc.

• Whether you want to start from scratch or want to extend your Big Data knowledge, this is an essential and unmissable course.

• This course is also suitable for Non Governmental Organisations who often have to analyse large amounts of data for decision making

• Heads of government departments and ministries who need to understand how to analyse data and make effective decisions for National development must attend this course