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Northwestern University
Modern Robotics, Course 2: Robot Kinematics
Do you want to know how robots work? Are you interested in robotics as a career? Are you willing to invest the effort to learn fundamental mathematical modeling techniques that are used in all subfields of robotics? If so, then the "Modern Robotics: Mechanics, Planning, and Control" specialization may be for you. This specialization, consisting of six short courses, is serious preparation for serious students who hope to work in the field of robotics or to undertake advanced study. It is not a sampler. In Course 2 of the specialization, Robot Kinematics, you will learn to solve the forward kinematics (calculating the configuration of the "hand" of the robot based on the joint values) using the product-of-exponentials formula. Your efforts in Course 1 pay off handsomely, as forward kinematics is a breeze with the tools you've learned. This is followed by velocity kinematics and statics relating joint velocities and forces/torques to end-effector twists and wrenches, inverse kinematics (calculating joint values that achieve a desired "hand" configuration), and kinematics of robots with closed chains. This course follows the textbook "Modern Robotics: Mechanics, Planning, and Control" (Lynch and Park, Cambridge University Press 2017). You can purchase the book or use the free preprint pdf. You will build on a library of robotics software in the language of your choice (among Python, Mathematica, and MATLAB) and use the free cross-platform robot simulator V-REP, which allows you to work with state-of-the-art robots in the comfort of your own home and with zero financial investment.
Coursera
Data Pipelines and SQL for Product Analytics
Learn to build complete data pipelines that transform raw event data into actionable insights using SQL and Pandas. You'll gain the skills to design efficient star schemas, implement Type-2 slowly changing dimensions for historical tracking, and optimize database performance for analytical workloads. This course uniquely combines hands-on experience with massive datasets (10+ million rows) and practical exposure to multiple SQL dialects including Presto and Spark. You'll benefit professionally by developing the core competencies that product analytics teams depend on daily - from data transformation and pipeline architecture to performance optimization. By completion, you'll confidently tackle real-world data engineering challenges and contribute immediately to business intelligence initiatives in product analytics roles.
Coursera
Craft Dashboards & Summaries
Ready to transform cluttered data into compelling visual stories that drive business decisions? This Short Course was created to help data analysts accomplish dashboard mastery through systematic design optimization and usage analytics. By completing this course, you'll be able to generate publication-ready descriptive summaries, redesign dashboards for 25% improved data-ink ratios, and implement evidence-based visual improvements. You'll master the art of connecting stakeholder questions to analytical outputs while identifying and removing low-value dashboard elements. By the end of this course, you will be able to: Generate descriptive statistics with data quality flagging Evaluate metric sufficiency against business needs Apply design principles for measurable dashboard improvement Analyze usage patterns to optimize dashboard performance This course is unique because it bridges technical EDA skills with strategic visual design, combining data science rigor with user experience principles. To be successful in this project, you should have a background in basic data analysis and familiarity with visualization tools like Tableau or Python libraries.
Fractal Analytics
Responsible AI in the Generative AI Era
This one-week microlearning course provides an introduction to the Principles of Responsible AI and how those principles align with the Generative AI or GenAI space. It also informs the learners about the various challenges that Generative AI brings. You will explore the fundamental principles of responsible AI, and understand the need for developing Generative AI tools responsibly. By the end of this course, you will be able to discuss the challenges posed by Generative AI and the principles of Responsible AI.
Arizona State University
Teach English Now! Foundational Principles
Through a series of engaging metaphors and stories, prospective and current EFL/ESL teachers will identify, summarize, and evaluate 7 basic language learning paradigms. Learners will be presented information on such foundational principles as motivation, risk taking, two different modes of learning, and balancing the teacher profession. Learners are also given an understanding of basic techniques founded on those principles, such as teacher talk, looking “ridiculous” in order to lower the affective filter, and networking. With these foundational principles in mind, ESL/EFL teachers will scrutinize common assumptions about language learning by comparing how they stack up to research-based core principles.
CertNexus
CyberSec First Responder – Advanced (CFR-A): Address
To round out your journey into advanced cybersecurity practice, in this course, you'll protect five key aspects of the business environment: data, access, software, networks, and systems. These all contribute to the third and final stage of the overall CFR-A program: Address. This is the third and final course in a multi-course Specialization. All of the courses in this Specialization require that you use the provided virtual machines, which include all of the necessary tools and system configurations for the activity environment. The course setup instructions provided in the first course go into more detail about the hardware and software requirements.
Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo
Riesgos de desastres en proyectos de infraestructura
En este curso aprenderás sobre los desafíos a los que se enfrentan los países de América Latina y el Caribe ante el riesgo de desastres naturales y el cambio climático, con sus consecuentes impactos en los proyectos de infraestructura y en su desarrollo económico y social. Este curso fue diseñado con el objetivo de fortalecer la capacidad de los equipos de proyecto para gestionar anticipadamente los eventos que pueden afectar a un proyecto, con el fin de incrementar su probabilidad de éxito.
Google Cloud
Transformer Models and BERT Model - Deutsch
En este curso, se presentan la arquitectura de transformadores y el modelo de Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT). Aprenderás sobre los componentes principales de la arquitectura de transformadores, como el mecanismo de autoatención, y cómo se usa para crear el modelo BERT. También aprenderás sobre las diferentes tareas para las que puede usarse BERT, como la clasificación de texto, la respuesta de preguntas y la inferencia de lenguaje natural. Tardarás aproximadamente 45 minutos en completar este curso.
Logical Operations
Database Design: A Modern Approach
For many new or intermediate database developers, it’s difficult to know where to start when designing a relational database. It’s easy to make the mistake of assuming that the functionality of a database will take shape over time, or the design will fall into place as you build the database. This course introduces a process for effectively planning and designing a functional, efficient database. Knowing how to plan a relational database is important to the success of the databases you create. Without planning, you cannot possibly know what the database needs to do, or even what information to include in the database. Planning a database is essential and prevents the extra work of fixing data maintenance problems later on. The concepts are not specific to a particular software application and can be applied to any relational database management system. This course is designed for students who need to learn database design essentials, typically in preparation for, or as a supplement to, a course on SQL such as Logical Operations' SQL Querying: Fundamentals and courses on specific relational database platforms. In this course, you will: follow an efficient process for designing a relational database; define the database conceptual model; define the database logical model; apply database normalization methods to improve the initial design of a database; and complete the database design, including controls to ensure its referential integrity and data integrity.
Johns Hopkins University
Technology and Product Planning
Through the voices of start-up and product leaders this course makes transparent what it takes to build a digital health product for healthcare customers large and small. It outlines the planning, resources, process, and team needed to get a healthcare technology product from idea to operational at a customer site. Get to know the range of possible software products and team roles associated with them, walk through the healthcare software design process, learn the key steps for healthcare software product planning, and then find out what it takes to deploy at a customer site. Start-up leaders share moments that made them pause, question what they knew, and knowledge they’d bestow on future start-up leaders throughout the course. Product leaders in healthcare reframe the software development process from the perspective of the healthcare industry, a space with unique stakeholders, customers, and users. Leave with a map of how to build technology and a product out of your digital health software concept.
Microsoft
Deployment and DevOps
This course covers deployment and DevOps practices, focusing on Azure Cloud Services, CI/CD principles, and application monitoring. You'll learn to manage and scale applications, automate deployments, and create CI/CD pipelines using Microsoft Copilot for streamlined and secure operations. By the end of the course, you will be able to… Describe the features and benefits of Azure Cloud Services, best practices for securing applications, and methods of application monitoring. Explain the steps required to prepare applications for deployment, manage and scale applications in Azure, and automate maintenance tasks. Define Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) principles, and the importance and methods of application monitoring. Develop deployment scripts and CI/CD pipelines using Microsoft Copilot, including debugging and optimizing deployment processes.
University of Michigan
Generative AI: Shaping Work and Tasks
Although it’s too soon to know all of the ways artificial intelligence will shape our future, we have seen recent trends within certain industries. “Generative AI: Shaping Work and Tasks,” looks at the potential impacts generative AI could have within spaces like education, marketing, and journalism. Recognizing that jobs in a contemporary workplace consist of multiple responsibilities, we consider the exposure of different kinds of tasks to generative AI. You will explore the potential for AI augmentation or replacement of workers’ tasks to shape aspects of their jobs, while also examining some domains that are likely to remain distinctly human endeavors. By thinking through these factors, this course will provide you with a framework for conceptualizing the implications of AI in your workplace. This is the second course in “Navigating Disruption: Generative AI in the Workplace,” a course series on ways to respond to new advances in artificial intelligence in the workplace and our lives.
University of Michigan
Feedback Loops: Team Feedback
Giving and getting individual feedback is one thing. But the dynamics are different when the feedback involves an entire team. Big teams, small teams, remote teams—this course will help you develop effective feedback systems for them all.
University of Pennsylvania
Introduction to Financial Accounting
Master the technical skills needed to analyze financial statements and disclosures for use in financial analysis, and learn how accounting standards and managerial incentives affect the financial reporting process. By the end of this course, you’ll be able to read the three most common financial statements: the income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows. Then you can apply these skills to a real-world business challenge as part of the Wharton Business Foundations Specialization.
University of Colorado Boulder
Advanced Visualizations using Tableau
This advanced Tableau course brings you into the world of the Tableau power-user where you will learn how to create advanced visualizations (including geographic visualizations) in Tableau. You'll also understand how data is structured and how to use this to your advantage when creating calculations and aggregations that go above and beyond. We'll cover analytical concepts like forecasting, trends, and clustering and by the end of this course you will be able to create truthful visualizations and accurate insights into data. You will be able to confidently say "I'm a Tableau expert". Photo by Bilal Mansuri on Unsplash
University of Cape Town
Climate Change Mitigation in Developing Countries
This course challenges you to consider how one might lift societies out of poverty while also mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. We explore the inherent complexity of developing country governments wanting to grow their economies in a climate-friendly way. You will be introduced to an approach with which to address this challenge. The approach consists of a facilitated process whereby academic researchers and high-level influential actors within society co-produce knowledge. You will track this process in four Latin American countries - Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, and South Africa. You will hear from various professionals about their contexts and the different challenges and opportunities the process includes. This course will cover topics such as facilitation process techniques, energy modeling, scenario building, innovation, and policy making. You will have the opportunity to respond to these topics with ideas and reflection from your own context. Whether you are a climate change practitioner, work in development, or are simply curious about how climate mitigation is understood, this course will give you insights into the complexity of how countries from the South pursue development goals while addressing climate mitigation. The course is free to enroll and take. You will be offered the option of purchasing a certificate of completion, which you become eligible for if you successfully complete the course requirements. This can be an excellent way of staying motivated! Financial Aid is also available.