The academic year is in full swing, and it feels like new knowledge is in the air all around campus! There are so many wonderful resources for professional development that we have access to as members of Harvard community. Below, we highlight a number of them related to Data and Analytics:
- Did you know that you could take any course at Harvard Extension School for just $40?! Check out the list of available classes and make plans to take a class during the January semester or in the spring;
- LinkedIn Learning (free for Harvard affiliates): over 15,000 online training classes on Microsoft and Adobe products, computer programming and web design, business skills, audio, and video tools, and more;
- Professional and Lifelong Leaning (PLL) at Harvard: browse a selection of courses in CS, DS, Mathematics, and Programming;
- Dozens of free online Data Science and Coding MOOCs on HarvardX;
- Seminars on data visualization and Tableau offered by Harvard Library (the next one is coming up on Oct 18th!);
- Workshops and tutorials on GIS put together by Harvard’s Center for Geographic Analysis;
- Applied Statistics Workshop – a weekly, cross-disciplinary tour of Harvard’s statistical innovations and applications.
There is also life beyond Harvard 😊! Here are a few additional opportunities for non-Harvard professional development:
- Free introductory workshop series “Road to NODES” by Neo4j, a fabulous open-source tool for graphs databases (the series will be run from mid-October to mid-November, so sign up fast!);
- Datacamp: learn the data skills you need online at your own pace—from non-coding essentials to data science and machine learning;
- Udacity is an online learning platform for those interested in tech-related subjects such as data analysis, software engineering, artificial intelligence, and web development;
- Coursera provides access to the world’s best education, partnering with top universities and organizations to offer courses for anyone to take, for free;
- A Cloud Guru features the largest hands-on cloud learning library of engaging multi-cloud courses & labs for AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and beyond;
- Dataquest: 80+ courses on Python, R, SQL, Excel, and Power BI;
- Codecademy is an American online interactive platform that offers free coding classes in 12 different programming languages including Python, Java, Go, JavaScript, Ruby, SQL, C++, C#, Swift, and Sass, as well as markup languages HTML and CSS .
If you know of other useful resources, please email us at coda@hbs.edu or share them on the community Teams channel.