Executive Data Science Capstone
Johns Hopkins University · View on Coursera ↗
Taught by Jeff Leek, PhD, Brian Caffo, PhD, Roger D. Peng, PhD
Data ScienceBusiness
About the course
The Executive Data Science Capstone, the specialization’s culminating project, is an opportunity for people who have completed all four EDS courses to apply what they've learned to a real-world scenario developed in collaboration with Zillow, a data-driven online real estate and rental marketplace, and DataCamp, a web-based platform for data science programming. Your task will be to lead a virtual data science team and make key decisions along the way to demonstrate that you have what it takes t
The dissent
The most-upvoted critical review (6 votes, 1.0★).
“Nice try to set something interactive up .. but the capstone it is nothing more than that. All 5 courses could have formed a first module of the specialization "Executive Data Science" leaving room for much more project management related issues to be dealt with as well (just a thought). Feels like this specialization was just made to show off to other universities that "everything" was covered by JHU.”
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