Enhance Your Data Mining Career
UC San Diego Extension’s certificate in Data Mining is a five course, 15-unit program, that can be completed in as little as one year. Upon completion, you will be equipped with the necessary skills to make data-driven decisions in any industry. Find out more today.
Specialized Certificate in Data Mining for Advanced Analytics
Are you interested in a career in Data Mining? UC San Diego Extension’s certificate in Data Mining is a five course, 15-unit program, that can be completed in as little as one year. Upon completion, you will be equipped with the necessary skills to make data-driven decisions in any industry. The program consists of four core course and an elective component that covers the fundamentals of data mining and culminating with a capstone project. Students will learn data analysis and machine learning techniques for model and knowledge creation before diving into the crucial step of cleaning, filtering, and preparing data for mining and predictive or descriptive modeling.
Building upon the skills learned in the previous courses, you will then learn advanced models, machine learning algorithms, methods, and applications. In the practicum course, you will use real-life data sets from various industries to complete data mining projects, planning and executing all the steps of data preparation, analysis, learning and modeling, and identifying the predictive/descriptive model that produces the best evaluation scores. Electives allow you to learn additional high-demand techniques, tools, and languages.
Visit the certificate home page to learn more! You can also submit direct email inquiries at unex-techdata@ucsd.edu.