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Google Cloud
Create Embeddings, Vector Search, and RAG with BigQuery
This course explores a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) solution in BigQuery to mitigate AI hallucinations. It introduces a RAG workflow that encompasses creating embeddings, searching a vector space, and generating improved answers. The course explains the conceptual reasons behind these steps and their practical implementation with BigQuery. By the end of the course, learners will be able to build a RAG pipeline using BigQuery and generative AI models like Gemini and embedding models to address their own AI hallucination use cases.
University of Maryland, College Park
Co-Production in Adaptive Environmental Management
Unlock Your Potential in Environmental Project Management. Are you ready to excel in leading complex environmental projects and drive sustainable outcomes? This course is designed to equip you with cutting-edge adaptive management practices and leadership skills essential for navigating distributed environments and tackling intricate environmental challenges. Empowering Team Members and Stakeholders Through this course, you will learn how to empower team members closest to the work by fostering decision-making and ownership, ensuring every stakeholder plays a vital role in co-producing sustainable solutions. You will explore strategies to build and facilitate great partnerships, from assembling high-performing teams to establishing motivation, framing purpose, and creating psychological safety that amplifies collaboration and mitigates risks during project execution. Adaptive Management Across Environmental Sectors Whether your focus is on climate change, ecological systems, biodiversity, land management, international development, natural resource management, water resources, or wetland protection, adaptive management and stakeholder engagement are central to achieving impactful results. This course emphasizes trust-building across diverse teams and provides actionable insights into implementing interventions and iterative feedback loops to align efforts and achieve shared goals. Strategic Management Frameworks You will gain expertise in establishing clear management processes and strategic execution frameworks that enhance decision-making at all levels. Learn how to apply management strategies such as Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), agile team design, and adaptive execution frameworks to coordinate efforts effectively without dictating direction. These approaches foster feedback, strengthen partnerships, and encourage participatory adaptive management. Real-World Case Studies The course culminates with an in-depth case study on the Chesapeake Bay watershed and sustainability. Dive into real-world examples of adaptive management in action, including the Chesapeake fisheries, to understand water quality, regulatory impacts, and the success of active adaptive management. These lessons will empower you to model adaptive management practices for your own environmental projects, influencing future management, fostering healthy ecosystems, and driving sustainability. Join the Journey to Leadership in environmental project management and make a lasting impact on the world.
Whizlabs
AWS: IoT, Machine Learning and Blockchain
AWS: IoT, Machine Learning, and Blockchain is the second course of Exam Prep (SAP-C02): AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional Specialization. This course explores key AWS services for building intelligent and connected applications. Learners will gain insights into AWS IoT Core, AWS IoT Events, and IoT Greengrass. The course also covers AI services like Amazon Polly, Translate, Comprehend, Rekognition, Kendra, Personalize, and SageMaker. Additionally, it introduces Managed Blockchain and remote workspace solutions with WorkSpaces and WorkSpaces Web. This course facilitates learners with approximately 3:00-3:30 Hours of Video lectures that provide both Theory and Hands-On knowledge. Also, Graded and Ungraded Quizzes are provided with every module to test learners' ability. - Module 1: IoT and Blockchain in AWS - Module 2: Machine Learning in AWS This course is designed for professionals seeking to master specialized AWS services beyond core infrastructure. It is ideal for developers, data scientists, architects, and engineers focused on leveraging Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Internet of Things, Blockchain, and End User Computing solutions. - Senior Solutions Architects - Enterprise Architects - Cloud Infrastructure Architects - Senior DevOps Engineers By the end of the course, learners will be able to: - Understand IoT services like AWS IoT Core, IoT Events, and IoT Greengrass. - Extract data from documents and recognize images using Amazon Textract and Rekognition. - Discover use cases for Amazon Managed Blockchain and compare virtual desktop solutions with Amazon WorkSpaces vs WorkSpaces Web.
University of Colorado Boulder
Stability and Capability in Quality Improvement
In this course, you will learn to analyze data in terms of process stability and statistical control and why having a stable process is imperative prior to perform statistical hypothesis testing. You will create statistical process control charts for both continuous and discrete data using R software. You will analyze data sets for statistical control using control rules based on probability. Additionally, you will learn how to assess a process with respect to how capable it is of meeting specifications, either internal or external, and make decisions about process improvement. This course can be taken for academic credit as part of CU Boulder’s Master of Science in Data Science (MS-DS) degree offered on the Coursera platform. The MS-DS is an interdisciplinary degree that brings together faculty from CU Boulder’s departments of Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Science, and others. With performance-based admissions and no application process, the MS-DS is ideal for individuals with a broad range of undergraduate education and/or professional experience in computer science, information science, mathematics, and statistics. Learn more about the MS-DS program at https://www.coursera.org/degrees/master-of-science-data-science-boulder.
Coursera
Design engaging Stories for Instagram and Facebook in Easil
By the end of this project, you will learn how to create and design engaging stories for Instagram and Facebook in Easil to promote your business. An essential role of your social media marketing strategy is to establish your online identity and appeal to your users. In this guided project, we will use the free version of Easil. You will be able to incorporate a color scheme, images, and other design elements for aesthetically pleasing and value-added business marketing collateral. We can use Easil to complete this project because it provides all the tools you need to create organized and visually appealing products while offering a variety of options for sharing and collaboration. You will learn how to plan and organize your ideas and utilize graphic design tools as you create social media stories to advertise your brand or products.
DeepLearning.AI
Building Multimodal Search and RAG
Learn how to build multimodal search and RAG systems. RAG systems enhance an LLM by incorporating proprietary data into the prompt context. Typically, RAG applications use text documents, but, what if the desired context includes multimedia like images, audio, and video? This course covers the technical aspects of implementing RAG with multimodal data to accomplish this. 1. Learn how multimodal models are trained through contrastive learning and implement it on a real dataset. 2. Build any-to-any multimodal search to retrieve relevant context across different data types. 3. Learn how LLMs are trained to understand multimodal data through visual instruction tuning and use them on multiple image reasoning examples. 4. Implement an end-to-end multimodal RAG system that analyzes retrieved multimodal context to generate insightful answers. 5. Explore industry applications like visually analyzing invoices and flowcharts to output structured data. 6. Create a multi-vector recommender system that suggests relevant items by comparing their similarities across multiple modalities. As AI systems increasingly need to process and reason over multiple data modalities, learning how to build such systems is an important skill for AI developers. This course equips you with the key skills to embed, retrieve, and generate across different modalities. By gaining a strong foundation in multimodal AI, you’ll be prepared to build smarter search, RAG, and recommender systems.
Packt
Practical Cybersecurity: Stay Safe Online
This course is based on George Finney's bestselling book, Well Aware. This course takes you on a structured journey through nine essential cybersecurity habits, beginning with literacy to recognize credible information sources and progressing through skepticism, vigilance, secrecy, and cultural awareness. Along the way, you’ll gain practical frameworks and real-world examples that help you spot deception, protect your data, and strengthen your digital defenses. By the end, you’ll have not only the knowledge but also actionable strategies to build a resilient cybersecurity mindset and safeguard your digital future. Completing this course offers clear career advantages: you’ll develop a security-focused mindset that employers across industries value, regardless of whether your role is directly technical. Demonstrating these habits shows that you can protect sensitive information, adapt to evolving threats, and contribute to a culture of security. All of this wills strengthen your professional credibility and open up opportunities in cybersecurity and beyond. This course is set-apart because of its emphasis on habits and mindset rather than just technical skills. By blending practical exercises with cultural and community perspectives, it equips you to think critically, act decisively, and maintain vigilance in any digital environment. This unique approach ensures the lessons stay relevant and actionable, no matter how technology or threats evolve. Ideal for professionals, educators, and individuals facing digital risks, this course is designed for those seeking to evaluate information, safeguard data, and counter deception. Whether in cybersecurity, media, or business, participants will gain essential skills to make informed decisions in a complex digital world. Copyright George Finney. All rights reserved. Originally published by Greenleaf Book Group LLC, Austin, Texas. This course has been packaged and distributed by Packt Publishing on behalf of Greenleaf Book Group. Greenleaf Book Group is a hybrid publisher and book distributor dedicated to empowering independent authors and small presses. Renowned for its innovative publishing model, Greenleaf offers a comprehensive suite of services, including editorial guidance, design, distribution, and marketing support, tailored to each author's goals. With a focus on quality and collaboration, Greenleaf has produced numerous bestsellers across a wide range of genres, providing authors with the tools and expertise to maximize their reach and impact in the competitive publishing industry.
Columbia University
Digital Case Method
The course is suited for teaching and learning professionals, media professors, university leaders, and educators interested in learning, creating, and using Digital Case Studies. This course will allow learners to tap into the power of visual storytelling through the powerful format of the digital case study, which can and should be created by students themselves. This class uses video tutorials and practical guides to teach learners case creation using inexpensive tools such as a smartphone, stabilizer, and Adobe Premiere Software. It also dives into how to design, fund, and manage education programs built on digital case studies. To be successful in this course no pre-requisite filmmaking knowledge is required. An interest in documentary-style filmmaking and video editing is all you need.
Illinois Tech
Introduction to Contemporary Operating Systems and Hardware 1a
In this course, you will explore the several types of hardware components installed in computers and peripherals. The course also offers a detailed exploration of these components and their function as part of the computer and peripheral hardware. The career skills acquired in this course will begin your journey into information technology. At the end of the course, you will be able to: - Identify basic cable types and their connectors, features, and purposes. - Demonstrate knowledge of several types of memory and their installation. - Categorize and install diverse types of storage devices. - Explain and configure motherboards, central processing units (CPUs), and add-on cards. - Apply electronic principles and their relationship to the power supply. - Explain the components and operation of multifunction devices/printers and settings. Software requirements: CPU-Z (https://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html)
Google Cloud
Criar embeddings, pesquisa vetorial e RAG com o BigQuery
Este curso estuda uma solução de geração aumentada de recuperação (RAG) no BigQuery para mitigar as alucinações da IA. Ele introduz um fluxo de trabalho de RAG que engloba a criação de embeddings, a pesquisa por um espaço vetorial e a geração de respostas aprimoradas. O curso explica os motivos conceituais dessas etapas e a implementação prática delas com o BigQuery. Até o fim do curso, será possível criar um pipeline de RAG usando o BigQuery e modelos de IA generativa como o Gemini, além de modelos de embeddings, para lidar com os próprios casos de uso de alucinação de IA.
Packt
SwiftUI Animations iOS 16 - Animate Anything with SwiftUI
Updated in May 2025. This course now 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. Create smooth and engaging animations with SwiftUI through a fun course that caters to all skill levels, from easy to advanced, exploring various types of animations. With just a working knowledge of Swift, you can utilize Apple’s SwiftUI to create beautiful animations with less code. The course covers numerous techniques to translate your animation ideas into reality. SwiftUI, Apple's declarative framework, is fast, easy, and enjoyable. You will learn to create projects like a breathing flower with effects such as snow and wind, animate objects around different axes, create a marching ants effect, animate a weather graph with data, and combine animations for unique effects. Additionally, you'll use the Shape protocol and paths to make custom wave shapes and animate them along control points, as well as animatableData for animating data in interesting ways. You will understand the Parallax effect, use iOS SpriteKit for physics-based animations, and add sound to make projects more engaging. This course is ideal for intermediate iOS developers looking to expand their expertise with SwiftUI. A basic understanding of Swift programming is recommended. Whether you're a developer aiming to create more engaging user interfaces or a designer wanting to implement your ideas more effectively, this course is designed to elevate your skills.
Stanford University
Essentials of Palliative Care
This course starts you on your journey of integrating primary palliative care into your daily lives. You will learn what palliative care is, how to communicate with patients, show empathy, and practice difficult conversations. You will learn how to screen for distress and provide psychosocial support. You will learn about goals of care and advance care planning and how to improve your success with having these conversations with patients. Finally, you will explore important cultural considerations and improve your cultural competency on the topics covered. For clinicians, the goal of this course is to help you incorporate primary palliative care into your daily practice or help you know when to seek a specialist. We will help you improve your patient’s quality of life and provide self-care tips to help you maintain your own. For patients and caregivers, this course will empower you to talk to your provider and get palliative care, if necessary. Stanford Medicine is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. Visit the FAQs below for important information regarding 1) Date of original release and Termination or expiration date; 2) Accreditation and Credit Designation statements; 3) Disclosure of financial relationships for every person in control of activity content.
Tecnológico de Monterrey
Pensamiento crítico: toma de decisiones razonadas
Tomar decisiones en el mundo de hoy, un mundo en creciente complejidad, con amplios cambios e incertidumbre, crea la necesidad de contar con aproximaciones que nos permitan discernir los verdaderos problemas y las causas que los originan. Identificar cuáles son estos problemas, requiere en la mayoría de los casos, retar las suposiciones en las que basamos nuestros juicios, respecto al mundo y sus realidades. Podríamos definir el pensamiento crítico, como “ese modo de pensar- sobre cualquier tema, contenido o problema- en el cual el pensante mejora la calidad de su pensamiento al apoderarse de las estructuras inherentes del acto de pensar y al someterlas a estándares intelectuales”. El pensamiento critico ayuda en la toma de decisiones en una empresa, en la selección de la mejor acción para la organización. En este curso de pensamiento critico el estudiante aprenderá a conocer sus tendencias, aproximaciones y suposiciones en las que se basan sus reflexiones y las condiciones y sus resultados derivados de sus formas de pensar. Este pensamiento reflexivo es el examen activo, cuidadoso y persistente, de toda creencia a la luz de los fundamentos que la sostiene y las conclusiones a las que tiende. Las decisiones razonadas que requiere el mundo, se dan en muy diversos ámbitos, especialmente en las decisiones de negocio, relacionadas con las estrategias, en la solución de problemas en las organizaciones, en la solución de problemas sociales y la responsabilidad social y ética de las corporaciones. En este curso en línea las aproximaciones estarán orientadas a analizar el pensamiento crítico requerido para estos ámbitos
Pearson
A+ Core 2 V15 - Pearson Cert Prep: Unit 3
This course covers common operating system errors, performance issues, and application failures, with hands-on practice using recovery and diagnostic tools for Windows 10 and 11. You’ll learn a step-by-step approach to diagnosing and fixing problems on Windows, Android, and iOS devices. You’ll also learn how to address PC security issues, certificate errors, and mobile security threats, so you can keep systems secure and running smoothly. Lessons focus on problem solving and managing everyday issues and more complex incidents.
Coursera
Discover types of Facebook Ads and the best for you
In this hands on project, we will take a look at the different types of Facebook ads you can run as a person or as a business and how to select the one that best fits your business goals.
28DIGITAL
Security and Privacy for Big Data - Part 2
Welcome to our focused course on Privacy and Data Protection in Big Data Environments. Here, you will delve into not only privacy-preserving methodologies but also explore crucial data protection regulations and concepts. By the end of this course, you'll be empowered to navigate your next Big Data project with confidence, assuring all aspects of privacy and data protection are well-managed. This course will sharpen your ability to identify potential vulnerabilities in Big Data projects, providing you with the tools to fortify your systems for long-term sustainability. It is an invaluable resource for ICT professionals, systems designers, and managers who are involved with big data. Even if your experience with Big Data or IT is minimal, such as for a product manager, this course has been crafted to offer you the fundamental knowledge you need. Ready to master the intricacies of privacy in Big Data? Secure your spot in the course today.