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Google Cloud
Introduction to Data Engineering on Google Cloud - Español
En este curso, aprenderás sobre la ingeniería de datos en Google Cloud, los roles y las responsabilidades de los ingenieros de datos y cómo estos se corresponden con las ofertas de Google Cloud. También aprenderás sobre los métodos para enfrentar los desafíos de la ingeniería de datos.
Logical Operations
Problem-Solving Skills
Problem-Solving Skills focuses on eliminating corporate problems. Approaches to problem solving are defined, along with traits of good problem solvers and the company cultures that influence them. The course focuses on the three phases of problem solving and breaks each phase into steps. Strategies are provided for individual problem solvers and problem-solving teams. This course is intended for business professionals or managers who would like to learn problem-solving techniques for a corporate environment. In this course, you will gain adaptable, specific tools for corporate problem solving. You will: • Identify problem-solving principles and barriers. • Describe the impact of corporate culture on problem solving. • Analyze a problem to approach it effectively. • Generate potential solutions using creative and logical processes. • Carry out and evaluate your solution. • Build problem-solving teams through effective leadership.
EDUCBA
Credit Risk Modeling
This comprehensive course equips learners with the knowledge and practical tools to analyze, evaluate, and apply key credit risk modeling techniques used in modern financial institutions. Through a blend of theoretical frameworks and real-world case studies, learners will explore foundational concepts such as Probability of Default (PD), Loss Given Default (LGD), and Expected Loss (EL), progressing into structural models like Merton’s approach and market-based credit assessment methods. Participants will also construct and interpret Altman Z-scores to assess bankruptcy risk, and apply credit rating principles to real-world scenarios including airline industry case studies. The course further delves into corporate credit evaluation using internal financial metrics, unhedged foreign currency exposure (UFCE), and working capital analysis, concluding with internal rating systems and lender “ways out” strategies. Designed for aspiring risk analysts, finance professionals, and advanced students, this course combines instructional rigor with practical relevance, enabling learners to build, differentiate, and justify credit decisions with confidence.
University of Colorado Boulder
The Need for Systems Engineering
Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary approach to designing, realizing, and managing complex systems. In this course, you will be introduced to principles of systems engineering and its importance to the development of complex systems. You will learn to identify and define systems, manage their complexity, and describe their life cycle. The course uses real-world engineering examples to address how the systems engineering approach can address challenges. This course can be taken for academic credit as part of CU Boulder’s Master of Engineering in Engineering Management (ME-EM) degree offered on the Coursera platform. The ME-EM is designed to help engineers, scientists, and technical professionals move into leadership and management roles in the engineering and technical sectors. With performance-based admissions and no application process, the ME-EM is ideal for individuals with a broad range of undergraduate education and/or professional experience. Learn more about the ME-EM program at https://www.coursera.org/degrees/me-engineering-management-boulder.
Skillshare
Nomad Sculpt 3D: Stylized Female Pt 2: Clothing & Poses
In this second course, Dave Reed guides you through the art of creating stylized clothing and accessories to bring your 3D characters to life. Using Nomad Sculpt, you’ll learn how to sculpt fabric, add intricate costume details, and integrate props seamlessly with your model. By the end of this course, you will be able to: * Model and refine stylized garments such as shirts, skirts, and collars. * Sculpt realistic fabric folds and surface textures. * Design and attach accessories like purses, straps, and other props. This course is ideal for Nomad Sculpt users who are comfortable with basic body sculpting and want to expand their skills into clothing design and prop creation. To get the most from this class, you should have prior experience with Nomad Sculpt’s sculpting, masking, and subdivision tools. Using v1.84 or later on a compatible iPad or Android tablet, you’ll follow Dave’s practical, creative workflow to achieve a polished, professional look that enhances your character’s personality and storytelling potential. Instructor bio: Dave Reed is a 2D and 3D illustrator and digital creator based in Brooklyn, New York. He holds a BFA in Illustration from the School of Visual Arts in NYC, where he developed his craft in both traditional and digital mediums. With a passion for visual storytelling and design, Dave brings a creative and practical approach to his teaching, helping learners build the skills and confidence to create their own illustrations and digital art.
Coursera
Robotics in High-Tech Manufacturing
In an era where automation and intelligent robotics redefine high-tech manufacturing, mastering robotic programming and integration is key to achieving precision, scalability, and efficiency. This course equips engineers and manufacturing professionals with the technical foundations to design, program, and deploy industrial and mobile robotic systems in modern production environments. Through interactive modules and hands-on labs, learners explore the evolution of industrial robotics, key robot types and applications, and the principles of motion control, task sequencing, and sensor integration using classical programming methods such as RAPID, KRL, and Python APIs and robotics programming framework like ROS 2. Participants also examine collaborative and autonomous systems, end-of-arm tooling, and vision-based precision, culminating in advanced integration exercises that introduce ROS 2 as a framework for interoperability. Learners should be familiar with basic understanding of manufacturing processes, basic knowledge of industrial robotic systems, basic computer science concepts and introductory programming experience. This course is designed for engineers and technical professionals looking to build practical skills in robotics programming and smart manufacturing integration. By course completion, learners will be able to program, configure, and coordinate robotic systems that meet the demands of Industry 4.0.
Coursera
Facebook Planning: Manage Content Like a Pro
Learn how to build and manage a sustainable Facebook content plan that supports your goals and engages your audience consistently. This course walks you through creating a strategic content calendar, balancing planned and reactive posts, and using tools like Google Sheets and Meta Business Suite for scheduling and performance tracking. You'll explore content mix strategies, optimal posting times, and workflow tips to streamline your content production. Through a hands-on planning activity and expert guidance, you'll develop a reliable system to reduce content stress and improve long-term engagement on Facebook.
Corporate Finance Institute
Analyzing Growth Drivers & Business Risks
Understanding growth drivers and business risks are essential parts of analyzing a business or in formulating a solid corporate strategy. This can be achieved using a top-down approach, by first looking at the broader economy, followed by industry analysis, then at the company itself; this course introduces frameworks to assess each level in specific detail. We’ll look at how to conduct a PESTEL analysis before diving into the Porter’s 5 Forces framework to help understand the bargaining power of suppliers and of buyers, as well as the threat of new entrants. We’ll also explore the industry life cycle, competitive advantage and positioning, as well as Ansoff’s Matrix, before completing a SWOT analysis. Finally, we’ll work on two example case studies to demonstrate how the findings from these frameworks might help inform an analyst’s model assumptions. Upon completing this course, you will be able to: • Define key categories of growth drivers and business risks • Compare different business analysis frameworks • Define how economic, industry and company-level characteristics may influence business strategies and outcomes • Interpret the results of qualitative assessments • Explain how these results may inform financial analysis This course is perfect for beginner and intermediate business and finance enthusiasts, including aspiring financial analysts, management consultants, and entrepreneurs.
Amazon Web Services
AWS Generative AI Lab Series
Learn Generative AI with AWS through six comprehensive hands-on labs. Start with exploring multimodal understanding using Amazon Nova Lite, then dive into the Amazon Bedrock console for foundation model deployment. Advance your skills with text generation using Nova Micro and learn essential prompt engineering techniques. Experience machine learning development with SageMaker, and discover how to improve developer productivity using Amazon Q Developer. Gain the skills needed to build AI solutions in real-world scenarios.
EDUCBA
Master Advanced XPath for XML Data Navigation
By completing this course, learners will be able to analyze XML document structures, construct advanced XPath expressions, apply predicates and operators for precise node filtering, navigate XML using axes and namespaces, and design flexible relative XPath queries for real-world scenarios. This Advanced XPath course is designed for professionals who want to move beyond basic XPath usage and gain practical, job-ready expertise in querying complex XML documents. Learners will explore absolute and relative paths, advanced predicate logic, XPath operators, axes, namespaces, and real-world XML patterns through structured lessons and hands-on examples. The course emphasizes practical understanding, showing how XPath behaves in dynamic XML structures commonly used in automation testing, web scraping, data extraction, and enterprise integrations. Each module builds progressively, reinforcing concepts with examples, practice quizzes, and graded assessments to ensure mastery. What makes this course unique is its example-driven, assessment-focused approach—learners don’t just write XPath expressions; they understand why they work and when to use them. By the end of the course, learners will confidently design robust XPath expressions that adapt to changing XML structures, making them highly effective in real-world technical roles.
Coursera
Tune HNSW
Tune HNSW is an intermediate-level course designed for machine learning practitioners and AI engineers looking to master the art of vector search optimization. In modern AI applications, finding the right balance between search accuracy (recall) and speed (latency) is critical, but traditional methods often fall short. This course provides a focused, hands-on deep dive into the Hierarchical Navigable Small World (HNSW) algorithm, empowering you to build and tune high-performance vector indices. To get the most out of this course, you should have a foundational understanding of key concepts. Prerequisites include familiarity with vector embeddings and basic Python programming. Prior experience with machine learning concepts is also helpful, as it will provide the context needed to master the practical trade-offs of performance tuning. You will move from theory to practice, learning how to strategically manipulate the core HNSW parameters—efConstruction, M, and efSearch—to meet specific project requirements. Through expert-led videos, practical readings, and a code-along lab, you'll learn to build an HNSW index from scratch. You will then systematically analyze the performance trade-offs by charting a precision-latency curve. The course culminates in a final project where you'll justify your tuning decisions for a simulated real-world scenario, creating a portfolio-ready demonstration of your ability to optimize vector search for applications ranging from low-latency chatbots to high-recall visual search engines.
Google Cloud
Redacting Sensitive Data with the DLP API
This is a self-paced lab that takes place in the Google Cloud console. Redacting Sensitive Data with the DLP API
Goldman Sachs
Fundamentos de la Negociación con Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women
Este curso online gratuito es uno de los 10 cursos disponibles en la colección Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women, diseñado para emprendedoras listas para llevar su negocio al siguiente nivel. Este curso examinará la negociación y explorará las herramientas que necesitas para negociar con confianza, a medida que buscas oportunidades para el crecimiento empresarial. Analizarás algunas suposiciones e ideas preconcebidas comunes sobre la negociación, identificarás tu estilo preferido de negociación y verás cómo se diferencia de otros. Luego explorarás la preparación práctica y psicológica necesaria para una negociación exitosa. Esto implica establecer tus metas y expectativas e identificar la zona de posible acuerdo. Descubrirás tácticas de escucha efectivas y evaluarás tus propias habilidades de escucha. Al final de este curso, trabajarás en un escenario de negociación para aplicar y practicar tus habilidades de negociación. La colección de cursos 10,000 Women ofrece una experiencia de aprendizaje en línea verdaderamente flexible. Tendrás la libertad de acercarte al programa de cualquier manera que funcione para ti: toma cualquier curso o combinación de cursos para adaptar tu viaje de aprendizaje a las necesidades individuales de crecimiento de tu negocio. Si eliges tomar los 10 cursos, explorarás todos los elementos clave de tu negocio y desarrollarás un plan exhaustivo para el crecimiento de tu negocio. Obtén más información sobre la colección Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women en las preguntas frecuentes.
Kennesaw State University
Six Sigma Advanced Define and Measure Phases
This course is for you if you are looking to dive deeper into Six Sigma or strengthen and expand your knowledge of the basic components of green belt level of Six Sigma and Lean. Six Sigma skills are widely sought by employers both nationally and internationally. These skills have been proven to help improve business processes and performance. This course will take you deeper into the principles and tools associated with the "Define" and "Measure" phases of the DMAIC structure of Six Sigma. It is highly recommended that you complete the "Yellow Belt Specialization" and the course "Six Sigma and the Organization (Advanced)" before beginning this course. In this course, your instructors will introduce you to, and have you apply, some of the tools and metrics that are critical components of Six Sigma. This course will provide you with the advanced knowledge of team dynamics and performance, process analysis, probability, statistics, statistical distributions, collecting and summarizing data, measurement systems analysis, process and performance capability, and exploratory data analysis associated with Six Sigma and Lean. Every module will include readings, videos, and quizzes to help make sure you understand the material and concepts that are studied. Registration includes online access to course content, projects, and resources but does not include the companion text The Certified Six Sigma Green Belt Handbook (2nd edition). The companion text is NOT required to complete the assignments. However, the text is a recognized handbook used by professionals in the field. Also, it is a highly-recommended text for those wishing to move forward in Six Sigma and eventually gain certification from professional agencies such as American Society for Quality (ASQ).
Microsoft
Technical Diagnostics and Troubleshooting Techniques
This course has been designed for individuals seeking entry-level positions in IT support. Whether you're a recent graduate, a career changer, or someone looking to kickstart your career in the tech industry, it will provide you with the foundational knowledge and practical skills needed to excel in this field. In this course, you’ll consolidate your learning into action using a number of troubleshooting approaches. You’ll learn about troubleshooting issues relating to both hardware and software, as well as system-related issues across multiple operating systems. You’ll examine diagnostic tools to combat networking issues as well as system performance. Your skills are then showcased in the capstone project, where you will engage with a real-world scenario. You'll be provided with multiple diagnostic outputs and will be tasked with identifying the issue and recommending a solution. You'll also be required to document and communicate the troubleshooting process and outcome. After completing this course, you’ll be able to: • Apply a systematic approach to diagnose technical issues across different hardware and software environments • Implement troubleshooting skills to resolve problems effectively • Utilize diagnostic tools and techniques for problem resolution This is also a great way to prepare for the Microsoft MS-900 exam. By passing the MS-900 exam, you’ll earn the Microsoft 365 Fundamentals certification.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Financial Accounting: Foundations
In this course, you will learn the foundations of financial accounting information. You will start your journey with a general overview of what financial accounting information is and the main financial statements. You will then learn how to code financial transactions in financial accounting language. In the meantime, you will learn about the most important concept in contemporary financial accounting: accrual accounting. You will then critically analyze how firms recognize revenues. Finally, you will finish the course with an analysis of accounting for short-term assets, where you will go into detail on how firms account for accounts receivable and inventories. Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to: • Understand the main financial statements and the financial information • Write a financial transaction in financial accounting language and understand how this impacts the main financial statements • Understand how accrual accounting and fundamental accounting concepts work • Understand revenue recognition principles and how they impact the main financial statements • Account for accounts receivable and inventories. This course is part of the iMBA offered by the University of Illinois, a flexible, fully-accredited online MBA at an incredibly competitive price. For more information, please see the Resource page in this course and go to onlinemba.illinois.edu.