The Data Analytics Certificate is a three course sequence designed to provide students with the knowledge, skills, and tools needed  for counducting data analysis. Students learn to explore, analyze, and visualize data using computational thinking, programming skills, and applied statistics.

The core topics addressed by the certificate are:

• algorithmic / computational thinking
• communication (written and verbal)
• data curation / management
• ethics (privacy, informed consent, data security)
• statistics / statistical inference
• visualization

Specific skills developed through this certificate