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Coursera
Data Visualization with Tableau and Microsoft Excel
Leverage modern data visualization tools in this comprehensive course designed for business professionals and analysts. Through hands-on projects using real-world datasets, you'll learn to create compelling visualizations and interactive dashboards using industry-standard tools like Tableau and Excel, enhanced by AI-driven insights. This course is perfect for analysts and business professionals who want to transform complex data into clear, actionable insights. Starting with fundamental visualization principles and progressing to advanced dashboard creation, you'll develop the practical skills needed to communicate data stories effectively across any organization. Upon completion, you'll be able to: • Create powerful visualizations and interactive dashboards using Tableau and Excel • Design and implement custom calculations and metrics for deeper analysis • Build compelling data stories through narrative visualization techniques • Optimize dashboard performance and implement real-time updates • Leverage AI tools to enhance visualization design and automation
Georgia Institute of Technology
Fundamentals of Engineering Exam Review
The purpose of this course is to review the material covered in the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam to enable the student to pass it. It will be presented in modules corresponding to the FE topics, particularly those in Civil and Mechanical Engineering. Each module will review main concepts, illustrate them with examples, and provide extensive practice problems.
Packt
Application Security Program Ignition Guide
This course features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. In this course, you will gain a comprehensive understanding of application security, with practical insights into enhancing security measures and creating a robust program within your organization. From defining core concepts to addressing critical security challenges, you will learn how to protect applications from evolving threats and vulnerabilities. Key concepts like risk measurement, confidentiality, and adversary identification are explored in depth to empower you with the necessary tools to safeguard your software systems. As you progress, the course will take you through essential security components, including threat modeling, security analysis, penetration testing, and vulnerability management. You will also learn about DevOps integration, secure code releases, and decentralized application security. By the end of the course, you will understand how to build a resilient application security roadmap and measure its success through key performance indicators (KPIs), feedback, and security scorecards. This course is suitable for developers, security professionals, and anyone involved in securing software applications. Whether you are aiming to enhance your organization's security posture or looking to integrate more effective practices, this course will provide the knowledge needed to drive security improvements in any application development environment.
O.P. Jindal Global University
Introduction to Academic Writing
Welcome to the Introduction to Academic Writing course! By the end of this course, you will gain an in-depth understanding of reading and writing as essential skills to conduct robust and critical research. This course introduces you to critical reading and writing skills within the conventions of academic writing. In this course, you will learn to effectively communicate your research questions and findings to an interested audience using reading and writing skills. With writing being an important method of thinking, you will learn how the practice of writing allows you to arrive at complex insights about your research area and develop your arguments systematically. This course focuses on the process of developing an argument through the examination of claims and evidence. It also familiarizes you with the structure of academic writing, which will help you better grasp the process of reading academic articles and writing your research. Through a mix of presentations and practice questions, this course provides you with a solid foundation for approaching the process of critical reading and writing in your respective disciplines. It will also cover other writing genres that are relevant to you, including writing for popular media and policy briefs, allowing you to explain how the writing process differs in these areas.
Alfaisal University | KLD
دليل الاستثمار | Investment Guide
تواجه العديد من الدول في يومنا هذا ظاهرة خطيرة وهي التضخم (Inflation)، التي تؤدي إلى انخفاض القيمة الفعلية للنقود، لذا يجب على الأفراد والشركات السعي نحو الحفاظ على أموالهم ومصالحهم عن طريق الاستثمار (Investment) بطرق مختلفة، لكن يجب أولاً دراسة كيفية اتخاذ القرارات الاستثمارية الصحيحة (Investment Decisions) لتجنب أو تقليل الخسائر المحتملة. هذه الدورة هي دورة تمهيدية؛ فهي تلقي الضوء على أساسيات الموضوع بشكل عام بهدف التعريف به وبمحاوره الأساسية التي يجب الإلمام بها. إذا كنت من المهتمين بفهم دليل الاستثمار، أو كان مجال عملك يتطلب توظيف ذلك في سياق عملك، فهذه الدورة ستكون مثالية لإغناء خبرتك وتطوير مهاراتك بشكل فعال ومؤثر. حيث ستزودك هذه الدورة باطلاع واسع ودقيق على مجموعة من المحاور المتعلقة بهذا الموضوع، مثل: شرح كيفية التخطيط لاستثمارك واتخاذ قرار استثماري، توضيح أنواع الأدوات المالية، التعرف على المقصود بالوسطاء الماليين، فهم وظيفة وأنواع الأسواق المالية، التعرف على المصادر المستخدمة لتمويل الاستثمار، فهم الفرق بين مفهوم الاستثمار ومفهوم التمويل.
EDUCBA
IntelliJ IDEA Case Study - Blood Donor Management System
This hands-on course guides learners through the complete development lifecycle of a Java-based Blood Donor Management System using IntelliJ IDEA. Designed for beginners and intermediate Java developers, the course covers essential programming concepts through real-world application building. Learners will start by setting up the project and defining object-oriented schema and UI components. They will then implement logic for adding and displaying donor information, integrate input validations, and manage runtime exceptions to ensure application robustness. By the end of this course, students will have developed a complete mini-application with clean code structure, practical validations, and error handling — all within the IntelliJ IDEA environment. This course not only sharpens Java programming skills but also fosters strong software design thinking and debugging habits through a case-study-driven approach.
Google Cloud
使用 Vertex AI 和 Flutter 构建生成式 AI 智能体
在本课程中，您将学习如何使用 Google 的可移植 UI 工具包 Flutter 来开发应用，并将开发的应用与 Google 的生成式 AI 模型家族 Gemini 相集成。您还将练习使用 Vertex AI Agent Builder，这是 Google 为构建和管理 AI 智能体及应用而提供的平台。
Coursera
Decode Rasters with Rasterio
Decode Rasters with Rasterio is a practical, concept-driven course for learners who want to work confidently with raster data using Python. Instead of treating rasters as images or black-box files, the course focuses on understanding rasters as structured spatial data—grids of numeric values whose meaning depends on metadata, alignment, and context. Learners begin by building a clear mental model of raster structure, including pixels, grids, bands, and data types. They then examine how raster metadata—such as dimensions, coordinate reference systems, transforms, and bounds—controls how raster data is interpreted and combined. Using Rasterio and NumPy, learners practice inspecting raster files, validating spatial alignment, clipping rasters to areas of interest, and stacking multiple bands in preparation for analysis. The course emphasizes reasoning and judgment, not just execution. Learners develop habits that prevent silent errors, support reproducible workflows, and ensure raster outputs are meaningful and trustworthy for real-world geospatial analysis.
Google
Gestion de projet Agile
Il s’agit du cinquième cours du programme de Certification en gestion de projet Google. Ce cours explorera l’historique, l’approche et la philosophie de la gestion de projet Agile, notamment le cadre Scrum. Vous apprendrez à différencier et à combiner Agile à d’autres approches de gestion de projet. Au fur et à mesure que vous progresserez dans le cours, vous en apprendrez plus sur Scrum, en explorant ses piliers et ses valeurs et en comparant les rôles essentiels de l’équipe Scrum. Vous découvrirez comment créer, gérer et affiner un carnet de produit, mettre en œuvre les stratégies de livraison axées sur la valeur d’Agile et définir une feuille de route de la valeur. Vous apprendrez aussi des stratégies pour organiser efficacement les cinq événements Scrum importants pour une équipe Scrum, introduire une approche Agile ou Scrum dans une organisation et encadrer une équipe Agile. Enfin, vous apprendrez à rechercher et à décrocher des missions dans un poste Agile. Les chefs de projet Google actuels continueront de vous former et de vous fournir les approches pratiques, les outils et les ressources nécessaires pour atteindre vos objectifs. Les stagiaires qui terminent ce programme devraient avoir les connaissances nécessaires pour postuler un emploi de niveau débutant dans la gestion de projet. Aucune expérience préalable n’est nécessaire. À la fin de ce cours, vous serez en mesure de: - Expliquer l’approche et la philosophie de la gestion de projet Agile, y compris les valeurs et les principes. - Expliquer les piliers de Scrum et la façon dont ils soutiennent les valeurs de Scrum. - Identifier et comparer les rôles essentiels dans une équipe Scrum et ce qui les rend efficaces. - Créer et gérer un carnet de produit et effectuer le raffinement du carnet. - Décrire les cinq événements importants de Scrum et comment configurer chaque événement pour une équipe Scrum. - Mettre en œuvre les stratégies de livraison axées sur la valeur d’Agile et définir une feuille de route de la valeur. - Expliquer comment encadrer une équipe Agile et l’aider à surmonter les défis. - Effectuer une recherche d'emploi pour un rôle Agile et apprendre comment réussir votre entretien
Google Cloud
Responsible AI for Developers: Interpretability & Transparency - Français
Ce cours présente les concepts d'interprétabilité et de transparence de l'IA. Il explique en quoi la transparence de l'IA est importante pour les développeurs et les ingénieurs. Il explore des méthodes et des outils pratiques permettant d'atteindre l'interprétabilité et la transparence des modèles d'IA et des données.
Coursera
Analyze Project Performance: Earned Value
Analyze Project Performance: Earned Value is a beginner-level course for project managers and team leads who need to answer two critical questions with confidence: “Are we on budget?” and “Are we on schedule?” This course goes beyond basic cost tracking to introduce Earned Value Management (EVM)—the recognized industry standard for assessing a project’s true performance. You will learn how to use real project data to calculate the three core metrics: Planned Value (PV), Earned Value (EV), and Actual Cost (AC). From these, you will compute the key performance indices—Cost Performance Index (CPI) and Schedule Performance Index (SPI)—to gain an objective, early-warning view of cost and schedule health. Through hands-on practice and guided exercises, you will interpret these results and turn numbers into insight. The course culminates in a professional Project Health Diagnostic Report, where you apply your analysis to produce a clear, data-driven recommendation for project control. By the end of the course, you will be able to evaluate project progress objectively, communicate performance with clarity, and make informed decisions that keep your projects on track.
University of Colorado Boulder
Storying the Self: (Re)Claiming our Voices
Engage with lived experiences and identities that have often been denied a public voice. Consider the nuanced contexts of race, gender, class, language, ability, and how these impact your position as a leader and creator. You’ll question what it means to reclaim your narrative of yourself and to engage with the strength of vulnerability as a leader and creator. In a creative exercise, you’ll engage with multiple perspectives on a past conflict and use this reflection to practice perspective-taking and listening that can generate creative work and deepen leadership skills for empathy, listening and engaging in multicultural workplaces.
Pearson
Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH): Unit 1
This course is covers information security and ethical hacking. You'll learn the core principles of cybersecurity, exploring the critical differences between information security and cybersecurity operations. Gain insights into the cyber kill chain and ethical hacking methodologies, and learn to navigate the complexities of security laws and standards. You will aquire skills to plan and scope penetration testing assessments effectively. By the end of this course, you will be prepared to apply ethical hacking practices to safeguard digital environments.
University of Pennsylvania
Calculus: Single Variable Part 4 - Applications
Calculus is one of the grandest achievements of human thought, explaining everything from planetary orbits to the optimal size of a city to the periodicity of a heartbeat. This brisk course covers the core ideas of single-variable Calculus with emphases on conceptual understanding and applications. The course is ideal for students beginning in the engineering, physical, and social sciences. Distinguishing features of the course include: 1) the introduction and use of Taylor series and approximations from the beginning; 2) a novel synthesis of discrete and continuous forms of Calculus; 3) an emphasis on the conceptual over the computational; and 4) a clear, dynamic, unified approach. In this fourth part--part four of five--we cover computing areas and volumes, other geometric applications, physical applications, and averages and mass. We also introduce probability.
Coursera
Complex Retrieval Queries in MySQL Workbench
In this intermediate-level course you will use MySQL Workbench to expand your basic SQL query-writing skills with more complex examples and activities. In hands-on activities in MySQL Workbench, you will write and execute SQL queries that retrieve data from multiple tables. In addition, you will generate queries that summarize data and perform calculations. Nested queries and SQL scripting rounds out the course content. While the course concentrates on query writing, you also get a taste of the problem-solving and data analysis efforts required for complex query construction and query results verification. Note: This course works best for learners who are based in the North America region. We’re currently working on providing the same experience in other regions.
Duke University
Managing Big Data with MySQL
This course is an introduction to how to use relational databases in business analysis. You will learn how relational databases work, and how to use entity-relationship diagrams to display the structure of the data held within them. This knowledge will help you understand how data needs to be collected in business contexts, and help you identify features you want to consider if you are involved in implementing new data collection efforts. You will also learn how to execute the most useful query and table aggregation statements for business analysts, and practice using them with real databases. No more waiting 48 hours for someone else in the company to provide data to you – you will be able to get the data by yourself! By the end of this course, you will have a clear understanding of how relational databases work, and have a portfolio of queries you can show potential employers. Businesses are collecting increasing amounts of information with the hope that data will yield novel insights into how to improve businesses. Analysts that understand how to access this data – this means you! – will have a strong competitive advantage in this data-smitten business world.