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Coursera
Transform, Analyze, and Optimize Your Data
Ready to unlock the true potential of your enterprise data infrastructure? This comprehensive course transforms you into a data optimization expert who can tackle the most challenging data engineering scenarios at scale. This Short Course was created to help data management and engineering professionals accomplish systematic data transformation, intelligent performance optimization, and strategic architecture migration decisions. By completing this course, you'll master the critical skills to convert massive volumes of semi-structured JSON data into queryable formats, analyze complex workload patterns to recommend optimal partitioning and clustering strategies, and conduct rigorous performance evaluations that guide million-dollar migration decisions. You'll emerge with the expertise to transform raw data chaos into streamlined, high-performance systems that power enterprise analytics. By the end of this course, you will be able to: Apply batch processing techniques to transform semi-structured JSON data into typed, queryable fields at enterprise scale Analyze workload patterns systematically to propose data partitioning and clustering keys that dramatically improve query performance Evaluate columnar and row-store processing performance comprehensively to recommend data-driven migration strategies This course is unique because it bridges the gap between theoretical database concepts and real-world enterprise implementation challenges, providing hands-on experience with the exact scenarios data engineers face when optimizing production systems. To be successful in this project, you should have experience with SQL, database concepts, and basic understanding of data architectures and performance monitoring tools.
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Technical Communication and Artificial Intelligence
This course is designed for professionals looking to enhance their technical documentation skills and stand out in today’s job market. By completing the course, you will be able to create beginner and intermediate documentation and use generative AI to make your work more efficient and effective. You’ll also build a portfolio of beginner and intermediate documentation, including technical instructions and tailored cover letters and resumes, that showcase your communication abilities. Through lessons on rhetoric and metacognition, genre, audience, prewriting and writing, organization and design, and post-writing reflection, you’ll gain both the foundational skills of technical communication and the modern advantage of AI-enhanced writing. By the end, you will be more confident in producing clear, polished documents and equipped with versatile skills that help you advance in your career and succeed across industries. No prior experience is required.
Coursera
Psychological Safety
The learning experience will provide participants with an understanding of psychological safety and the skills needed to create safe, inclusive, and supportive environments in their lives. At the end of this short course, learners will integrate the principles of psychological safety in a personalized plan of action to positively impact their personal and professional lives.
Coursera
Query Spatial with PostGIS
Querying spatial data effectively starts with understanding how geography is modeled, indexed, and analyzed inside a relational database. In this hands-on course, you’ll move beyond basic SQL by learning how to query geospatial data using PostGIS, PostgreSQL’s spatial extension. You’ll begin by working with core geometry types and spatial reference systems, building a foundation for how location data is stored and interpreted. From there, you’ll write spatial queries that perform distance calculations, proximity searches, and spatial joins to answer real-world questions. As you progress, you’ll explore spatial indexing and query patterns that improve performance and reliability as datasets grow. By the end of the course, you’ll produce reusable spatial SQL queries and analysis patterns that support practical use cases in areas such as logistics, urban planning, and geospatial data engineering—equipping you to work confidently with location-based data in production environments.
EDUCBA
Agile Practices: Apply, Evaluate & Optimize Planning
This course is designed to equip learners with intermediate to advanced Agile competencies essential for delivering high-impact outcomes in dynamic environments. Through a structured progression across four key modules, participants will apply Agile release and iteration planning techniques, evaluate decision-making models within collaborative teams, and lead reflective practices such as retrospectives and Extreme Programming (XP) iterations. The course emphasizes both strategic and tactical dimensions of Agile: from Lean thinking and technical practices to stakeholder engagement, risk mitigation, and the use of actionable metrics. Learners will gain the ability to synthesize Agile governance principles with modern leadership practices to foster sustainable delivery and high-performing teams. Each lesson encourages learners to apply, analyze, and evaluate Agile concepts using real-world scenarios, reinforced by practice and graded assessments. By the end of the course, learners will be equipped to not only execute Agile processes but also to mentor teams, optimize value delivery, and lead Agile transformations with confidence.
University of California, Irvine
Salesforce Basics
This course introduces you to the powerful capabilities of Salesforce, a leading Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system. You will gain foundational knowledge of Salesforce components, enabling you to optimize business operations. Learn the essentials of Lightning for Sales, Community Cloud, and Marketing functionalities, and discover how to secure your Salesforce organization and manage user permissions effectively. These practical skills will prepare you to implement Salesforce solutions within various organizations. The course features in-depth readings, hands-on activities within Salesforce's Trailhead platform, peer discussions, demonstration videos, and peer review assignments. By the end of this course, you will be able to: - Understand core Salesforce components and their functions. - Navigate and utilize Lightning for Sales, Community Cloud, and Marketing features. - Implement security settings and manage permissions within a Salesforce organization. - Apply foundational Salesforce knowledge to business administration tasks. To be successful in this course, no prior experience with Salesforce is required, though basic computer literacy is recommended.
Zoho Corporation
Fundamental Sales Concepts — An Overview
"Fundamental sales concepts—An overview" is designed to equip an entry-level sales aspirant with the basic knowledge required to begin a career in sales. When you enrol into this course you will be able to: — Describe the fundamental concepts of the sales cycle. — Define sales channels and list the broader categories of sales channels through which products and services are sold. — Explain popular sales techniques and methods practiced in the industry. — Describe key sales management concepts. — Describe the concept of customer relationship management.
Tecnológico de Monterrey
Proceso de gestión de marca estratégico
Las marcas hoy en día forman una parte esencial del quehacer de los negocios. Durante este curso analizaremos los elementos principales que conforman una marca, así como los pasos y las acciones estratégicas que las fortalecen. Al finalizar el curso podrás tener una visión clara sobre las implicaciones de la gestión de marca y el impacto que ésta tiene en las organizaciones y para el logro de sus objetivos. Los objetivos del curso son los siguientes: • Identificar y comprender los componentes básicos de una estructura de marca. • Conocer y aplicar estrategias para el fortalecimiento de marca. • Definir las distintas metodologías para evaluar una marca y medir su desempeño.
Google Cloud
Networking in Google Cloud: Fundamentals - Français
"""Networking in Google Cloud"" est une série de cours en six parties. Bienvenue dans la première des six parties de notre série de cours ""Networking in Google Cloud: Fundamentals"". Ce cours fournit une présentation complète des concepts fondamentaux de la mise en réseau, y compris les principes de base de la mise en réseau, les cloud privés virtuels (VPC) et le partage des réseaux VPC. Il traite également des techniques de journalisation et de surveillance des réseaux. "
International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad
Fundamentals of Computer Organization
Whether you're a curious programmer, an aspiring hardware engineer, or simply someone who wants to understand the technology that powers the world, this course will provide you with a fundamental and practical understanding of computer architecture. This course goes beyond surface-level programming to reveal the core architectural principles that determine a computer's speed and efficiency. You'll learn how a CPU executes a program, from the simple, one-step process to the high-speed efficiency of a 5-stage pipeline. You will also learn how to overcome performance barriers. Upon completion, one will be able to: - Discuss the significance of latches and clocks in circuit design. - Explain how instructions are executed in a single-cycle and a 5-stage pipelined design. - Identify and solve structural, data, and control pipelining hazards. - Demonstrate a deep understanding of branch prediction. - Describe the fundamental principles of an out-of-order processor implementation. - Elucidate how temporal and spatial localities affect cache performance. This is an intermediate-level course, intended for learners with a background in computer science or electronics engineering. To succeed in this course, you should have experience with a high-level programming language like C, C++, or Python.
EDUCBA
Personality Development: Analyze & Apply Growth
Learners will be able to define the fundamentals of personality development, analyze psychological and sociological precipitators, evaluate academic and familial influences, and apply personal approaches to achieve balanced growth. This comprehensive course provides a step-by-step exploration of personality development through engaging case studies and structured lessons. Beginning with the foundations—definitions, complements, objectives, and the psychosociosomatic (PSS) matrix—participants will discover how guiding credos, intellectual edifices, and equilibrium shape personality balance. The journey expands into sociological, academic, familial, and somatic dimensions, emphasizing aspirations, societal environments, and personal identity. By completing this course, learners will gain practical tools to assess their own personality traits, design strategies for self-improvement, and apply these insights in professional and personal contexts. Unlike generic personality courses, this program uniquely integrates psychological, social, and physical perspectives into a holistic model, making it both insightful and actionable. Whether you are a student, professional, or lifelong learner, this course equips you to critically evaluate, adapt, and apply personality development strategies for sustainable growth.
University of Colorado System
Newborn Capstone
Congratulations! You progressed your way through all four of the Newborn Baby Care courses, each with their own focal points on the many dimensions of maintaining newborn health in the first month of life. Now we arrive at a crucial part of your learning –the Newborn Baby Care Capstone- Case Studies, which is your opportunity to take what you have learned and synthesize, integrate, and apply what you know to a series of case studies. Interacting with these real-life scenarios will help you retain the specialization content and be ready to put it into practice in your own care-providing environment. Together we will experience key moments of the courses, this time through the lens of case studies. We will begin with addressing jaundice and performing screenings and assessments covered in Course 1. From there we will consider case studies for both heart and lung health representing Course 2. Then we will enter new territory, the first doctor’s visit once baby has gone home. Here you will bring together elements from Courses 3 and 4, assessing baby and also main care providers. No matter what capacity you do or will provide newborn baby care, the experience of this final capstone course will positively impact your understanding and ability to put that understanding into practice. The newborns, families, and other care providers you engage with will benefit greatly from your efforts. A newborn baby is an amazing beautiful life filled with hope. There is so much that goes into making sure that babies are born healthy, and so much more to think about after they are born. Whether you are in the health care field, or even a parent, this course is the perfect educational opportunity for you to keep newborn babies healthy in the days and weeks after they are born!
Sungkyunkwan University
Using R for Regression and Machine Learning in Investment
In this course, the instructor will discuss various uses of regression in investment problems, and she will extend the discussion to logistic, Lasso, and Ridge regressions. At the same time, the instructor will introduce various concepts of machine learning. You can consider this course as the first step toward using machine learning methodologies in solving investment problems. The course will cover investment analysis topics, but at the same time, make you practice it using R programming. This course's focus is to train you to use various regression methodologies for investment management that you might need to do in your job every day and make you ready for more advanced topics in machine learning. The course is designed with the assumption that most students already have a little bit of knowledge in financial economics and R programming. Students are expected to have heard about stocks and bonds and balance sheets, earnings, etc., and know the introductory statistics level, such as mean, median, distribution, regression, etc. Students are also expected to know of the instructors' 1st course, 'Fundamental of data-driven investment.' The instructor will explain the detail of R programming. It will be an excellent course for you to improve your programming skills but you must have basic knowledge in R. If you are very good at R programming, it will provide you with an excellent opportunity to practice again with finance and investment examples.
University of Washington
Building Web Pages with HTML & CSS
If you’re ready to dive into the world of web development, this course is your launchpad. Whether you’re a graphic designer itching to build the sites you mock up, an instructional designer wanting to finesse HTML in your LMS, an entrepreneur looking to put your business online, or just developing skills for a side hustle—this course is for you. Taught by real-deal front-end developers who’ve cut their teeth on websites for top tech and e-tail companies, you’re learning from the best right here in Seattle. This course covers the essentials, guiding you through single-page HTML and CSS files. You’ll get hands-on with Git and GitHub, learning version control and how to host your projects like a pro on GitHub Pages. And it doesn’t stop there—your instructors are packed with insider tips, straight from years of industry experience, to give you a leg up. By the end, you’ll not only know how to write solid HTML and CSS but also how to handle AI-generated code like a champ. And the best part? You’ll create your own single-page website on any topic you choose, turning theory into real-world skills. This isn’t just about learning code—it’s about getting in the game.
Google
Fundamentos do marketing digital e do e-commerce
Este é o primeiro dos sete cursos do Certificado de Marketing Digital e E-commerce do Google, fornecerá a você as habilidades necessárias para se candidatar a vagas de iniciante nessas áreas de atuação. As pessoas que trabalham com marketing digital e e-commerce ajudam suas empresas a atrair novos clientes, engajá-los por meio de vários canais digitais e impulsionar operações, como compras e fidelidade do cliente. Neste curso, você conhecerá as vagas de trabalho para iniciantes em marketing digital e e-commerce e identificará as funções que esses profissionais desempenham em uma empresa. Você também aprenderá sobre o funil de marketing e como ele molda a jornada do cliente. Os colaboradores do Google que trabalham atualmente na área serão seus guias, fornecendo atividades práticas e exemplos que simulam tarefas comuns de marketing digital e e-commerce, ajudando você a desenvolver suas habilidades e a se preparar para começar a trabalhar. Os alunos que concluírem os sete cursos deste programa terão os recursos de que precisam para se candidatar a vagas de trabalho de marketing digital e e-commerce para iniciantes. Nenhuma experiência anterior é necessária. Ao final deste curso, você será capaz de: – Definir as áreas de atuação do marketing digital e do e-commerce – Descrever as responsabilidades de um coordenador de marketing digital e de um analista de e-commerce (ambos iniciantes), e cargos semelhantes – Entender como este programa ajudará a preparar para uma carreira em marketing digital e e-commerce – Identificar as funções que o marketing digital e o e-commerce desempenham em uma empresa – Entender a jornada do cliente e a função dos mapas da jornada – Explicar o conceito de funil de marketing – Entender os elementos e objetivos de uma estratégia de marketing digital e e-commerce
Johns Hopkins University
Hypothesis Testing in Public Health
Biostatistics is an essential skill for every public health researcher because it provides a set of precise methods for extracting meaningful conclusions from data. In this second course of the Biostatistics in Public Health Specialization, you'll learn to evaluate sample variability and apply statistical hypothesis testing methods. Along the way, you'll perform calculations and interpret real-world data from the published scientific literature. Topics include sample statistics, the central limit theorem, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, and p values.