Coursera and MathWorks Launch New Data Science Course

MathWorks and Coursera, the world’s leading online learning platform, announced that they will work together to close the data science skills gap. MathWorks has developed a series of online courses, “Data Science in Action with MATLAB”, and the first course, “Exploratory Data Analysis with MATLAB”, is now available on Coursera.

According to the Coursera Global Skills Index (GSI) report in March 2019, the demand for data science skills is increasing both for individuals and companies. Looking at the number of learner registrations in the field of data science over the years, it can be found that the demand for machine learning and statistical programming skills has increased significantly (14% and 9% year-on-year respectively). As the amount of data collected in various industries continues to increase, it has stimulated the demand for more and more personalized products and services, thus affecting the popularity of these skills.

The Hands-On Data Science with MATLAB Specialization can help address this need, as it targets engineers, scientists, and researchers who need to learn data science to meet their job requirements or open up new career opportunities. This series of courses enables these domain experts to learn and apply data science without having to spend time developing or practicing software development skills. Each course takes approximately five weeks. After completing the four-course specialization, students can begin applying MATLAB knowledge to common analytical tasks in application areas such as autonomous systems, speech recognition, predictive maintenance, and medical imaging.

"The data science skills gap exists across industries and countries. We are excited to release new content featuring MATLAB, which has global appeal due to its cross-disciplinary use in industry and academia," said Dil Sidhu, Chief Content Officer at Coursera. "In this Specialization, learners will apply trusted MATLAB capabilities and use community-driven solutions from the vast MATLAB user base to gain skills that will increase their productivity and enhance their career potential."

“Engineers, scientists, and researchers are increasingly working on projects that require data processing, feature engineering, and machine learning to build and implement predictive models. They rely on learning platforms like Coursera to acquire and hone these data science skills,” said Seth DeLand, technical marketing manager for data science at MathWorks. “Our new course series supports a variety of learners, including those who are completely new to data science but want to learn and understand how to apply data science in their work, as well as domain experts who are already working on projects that require data science but want to gain a deeper understanding so they can start applying data science in their projects right away.”

Each course in this series gradually develops learners' ability to use MATLAB for data science work:

•  Course 1 - Exploratory Data Analysis Using MATLAB

•   Course 2 - Data Processing and Feature Engineering Using MATLAB

•    Course 3 - Predictive Modeling and Machine Learning with MATLAB

•  Course 4 - Data Science Projects: MATLAB for the Real World