This badge is awarded to individuals who have developed basic skills concerning the management of data. This includes the ability to create and organize as well as statistically analyze data and to dis-play data in meaningful ways. The badge earner has participated in the compulsory and elective workshops and learning opportunities offered by MCI and has demonstrated a sound understanding of basic principles and tools of data science practice including data collection and integration, explora-tory data analysis, predictive modelling, descriptive modelling, data product creation, evaluation, and effective communication.
Issuer
MCI Management Center Innsbruck
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Criteria
Competences, skills & knowledge
Individuals who have earned this badge
- can explain und describe what Data Science is and what Data Scientists do
- have understood important concepts of statistics (eg. Statistical interference, probability distributions)
- can use R to carry out basic statistical modelling and analysis
- can explain the significance of exploratory data analysis (EDA) in data science and know how to apply basic tools (plots, graphs, summary statistics)
- can describe the Data Science Process and how its components interact
- use APIs and other tools to scrape the Web and collect data
- know how to apply basic machine learning
- can create effective visualizations of data (to communicate or persuade) and
- is aware of ethical and privacy issues in data science
