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Intro to Coding
From smart phones, video games, to aircrafts, all devices and softwares are powered by code. In this course you will be introduced to Coding, types of programming languages and basic concepts of coding using Blockly.
Free
- What is Coding
- The different types of programming languages
- How people with programming experience and people with no programming experience view coding
- Basic concepts of coding using a visual programming editor (Blockly)
Intro to Cloud
Cloud can empower you to embrace change and propel progress. In this course you will learn about what Cloud is, and how it can benefit businesses regardless of the industry they occupy. You will then go through examples of different companies that are using Cloud services to market and expand their solution.
Free
- Cloud Computing
- IaaS, PaaS and SaaS
- Hybrid Cloud and Private Cloud
Intro to Artificial Intelligence (AI)
AI is now in our living rooms, cars, and often our pockets. In this course you will be introduced to AI, how it works and what makes a cognitive system different from the rest. You will then go through examples of how AI is being used in the fashion, medical and music industry.
Free
- What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Why AI is important
- Augmented Intelligence, and Machine Learning
- Natural Language Processing
- How AI can be applied across various industries
Intro to Internet of things (IoT)
As almost everything from cars to crops to conveyor belts becomes connected, IoT is changing the way businesses operate. In this course you will learn about how IoT works and gives us access to data from millions of devices. You will then go through examples of how IoT is being used across various industries to come up with better and more effective solutions.
Free
- What is Internet of Things (IoT)
- Why IoT is important
- How IoT can be applied across various industries
Intro to Blockchain
What if we could track and authenticate a product or a transaction at each stage of their journey? In this course you will understand Blockchain, how it works and what makes it different from Bitcoin. You will then go through examples of how Blockchain is being used across various industries to build secure solutions.
Free
- What is Blockchain
- Why Blockchain is important
- How Blockchain can be applied across various industries
Intro to Data Science and Analytics
While data science and AI are relatively new in the market, the concept of extracting value from data has been around for a while. In this course you will be introduced to Data science and how it’s defining the future of data. You will then go through examples of how Data science is being used across various industries to come up with better and more effective solutions.
Free
- What is Data science & Analytics
- Why Data science & Analytics is important
- How Data science & Analytics can be applied across various industries
Intro to Quantum Computing
Quantum computers could one day provide breakthroughs in many disciplines, including materials and drug discovery, and artificial intelligence. In this course you will understand what Quantum Computing is, and then go through examples of how it works.
Free
- What is Quantum computing
- Why Quantum computing is important
- How Quantum Computing can be applied across various industries
Design Thinking for Beginners
Whether you’re re-envisioning the customer experience for a multinational bank or just planning your product’s next release, Design Thinking keeps you focused on what matters to users as you lead your team from ideas to outcomes.
Free
- Understand what are the Design Thinking techniques
- Know the three stages of the loop
- What are IBM Practices
- Loop Stages
- Empathy Map
Cloud V2
Cloud is a platform that gives you access to a wide variety of AI, Blockchain, Containers, IoT tools and much more! This course serves as an introduction to Cloud.
Free
- Set up simple Cloud apps and services
- Cloud Foundry
- Cloud-Native Applications
- Containers and Container Orchestration
- Kubernetes Node.js, Red Hat OpenShift and VMware
Create the Back-End of a Visitor Tracking App
Back-end is one of the two main components of a web application, it can also be considered the root of a website. Without a good and strong back-end, users will not have a pleasant experience on your website. In this skill, you will be introduced to back-end programming on the Cloud platform. You will learn how to write a Node.js application for an organization’s front desk, which needs to log visitors in and out. Along the way you will learn how to use a few programming languages and also a database. You will learn how to do this on the highly available Cloud, using an online Eclipse Orion IDE rather than having to install anything on your local machines.
Free
- Create and deploy Node.js apps using an online IDE
- Understand and use basic Express commands
- Make basic function calls using JavaScript
- Create a basic UI using HTML & JavaScript
- Make sense out of JSON files
- Create test functions for your web application
- Store and retrieve data from a database
Create the Front-End of a Visitor Tracking App
Front-end is also one of the two main components of a web application. It is what the user sees and interacts with. Which is why it needs to be clear, smooth and attractive so that users enjoy their experience on the site. In this skill, you will be introduced to the front-end programming on the IBM Cloud platform. You will learn how to modify your front desk Node.js application which has already been deployed on IBM Cloud and create a good-looking User Interface for it. Along the way, you will learn how to use AngularJS, jQuery and Bootstrap. Your tools in this course will be IBM Cloud platform with an online Eclipse Orion IDE deployed on it.
Free
- Create a responsive and good-looking UI for your application
- Understand and use AngularJS
- Understand and use jQuery
- Use the Bootstrap library
- Protect your web application from dangerous JavaScript expressions
Create your own Web Page
Web applications have become the main source of income and entertainment for most people, it has also become the means to solve world problems and to expand businesses globally. If you are completely new to coding or have some background coding experience, you might be wondering where to start learning web application development. You need to learn how, what, where to code and then, once the code is ready, how to deploy it for the whole world to see.In this course we will help you create an end-to-end professional looking static web page, assuming you know nothing about coding. You will setup your own development environment, create your first web page from scratch and then deploy it on Cloud through which your page can be accessed from anywhere and on any device!
Free
- Start developing web pages using HTML
- Enhance your pages using CSS
- Use Node.js to deploy you web application on IBM Cloud
- Understand and use basic commands in Command Line Interface (CLI)
Build your Own Chatbot for Good
Chatbots are conversational robots that simulate conversation, and can interact with both users and services. Through Cloud and Cognitive Computing, you can open up your chatbot to countless creative applications. Imagine if you could build a chatbot that understands how someone is feeling. Your chatbot could play music or make suggestions to help them feel happier.
Free
- Design Thinking
- Art of Conversation
- Create your own Chatbot
- Science of Tones and Emotions
- Learn how to design a dialog for your specific users by using Design Thinking
- Play with a chatbot and learn about the three basic components of Watson Conversation: intents, entities, and dialog
- Analyze tone and emotions in text by using Watson Tone Analyzer and brainstorm ways you can use the service to improve your chatbot.
- Build a simple chatbot using Watson Assistant (formerly Conversation)
Create a Fraud Detection Model using Watson Visual Recognition
Watson Visual Recognition is a cloud-based service that uses deep learning algorithms to analyze images for scenes, objects, faces, and other content. Here you will create a fraud detection model using Watson Studio and Watson Visual Recognition that will enable you to distinguish between forged and original signatures.
Free
- Provision a Visual Recognition service on IBM Watson Studio.
- Classify images using Visual Recognition on IBM Watson Studio.
- Train the classifier to distinguish genuine and forged signatures.
Innovator Track donations with Blockchain
Imagine if every person had the confidence that philanthropic commitments to support societal challenges such as extreme poverty were being honored. That every dollar they donated was making a real impact. Wouldn't a more transparent system motivate people to more readily champion worthy causes? In this course, by leveraging the power of Blockchain you will create an immutable and tamperproof donation network where donors can track how every single penny that they have donated is spent.
Free
- Understand what Blockchain is
- What are the benefits of using Blockchain for donation tracking
- Build a Blockchain Application to Track Donations
Build your Voting Application using Blockchain
Blockchain-based voting has added value in terms of fairness and security of the votes in comparison with Internet-based voting. In this course you will utilize blockchain to create a voting application. It will not only make process of voting efficient but will also ensure that no vote is tampered with.
Free
- Understand what Blockchain is
- What are the benefits of using Blockchain for voting
- Build a Voting Application on Blockchain
Build your Car Auction Application on Blockchain
Blockchain is a shared ledger technology that allows any participant in the network to see the one system of record. It is an emerging technology that can radically improve banking, supply chain etc. and can create new opportunities for innovation. In this course you will learn about Blockchain through practice! And create an application that imitates a car auction.
Free
- Understand what Blockchain is, and what are it’s benefits
- Build a simple Blockchain application consisting of Assets, Participants and Transactions using the Hyperledger Composer Playground
- Deploy your Blockchain application using the Hyperledger Composer Playground
Track donations with Blockchain
Imagine if every person had the confidence that philanthropic commitments to support societal challenges such as extreme poverty were being honored. That every dollar they donated was making a real impact. Wouldn't a more transparent system motivate people to more readily champion worthy causes? In this course, by leveraging the power of Blockchain you will create an immutable and tamperproof donation network where donors can track how every single penny that they have donated is spent.
Free
- Understand what Blockchain is
Build a Notification System for your IoT Application
Now that you are more familiar with Node-RED and the concept of IoT, expand your knowledge and work with a more traditional IoT application. Learn how to utilize hardware. This skill journey teaches you even more about Node-RED. You will learn how to utilize simulated sensors in your flow and connect them to notification APIs to monitor your sensors using your smartphone.
Free
- Integrate simple IoT devices with your Node-RED projects
- Use simulated sensors
- Use Twilio API to setup notifications for your Node-RED projects
Integrate Watson Assistant and Telegram using Node-RED
Utilize your smartphone as an actual physical device in your IoT application. This skill journey lets you create a chatbot using Watson Assistant that you will interact with a Telegram message on your mobile device. This chatbot, with the power of Node-RED, can be used to send commands to other smart devices.
Free
- Create a Telegram Chatbot Interface
- Create a Watson Assistant Chatbot
- Integrate Telegram as an interface for Watson Assistant service using Node-RED
Build your First IoT Application: Node-RED: Basics to Bots
Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the growing technological fields that is already transforming the lives around us. Our cars are embedded with parking sensors, the factory machines have safety mechanisms implemented to prevent damage to workers. It is also set to make our homes and cities smart and revolutionize the healthcare. Learn the basics of IoT using IBM Cloud and the Node-RED tool. Node-RED is a drag-and-drop tool that helps you create IoT applications using flows. This skill journey introduces the concept of IoT and teaches you how to connect various Watson technologies and services ("things") and make them work together.
Free
- Create a simple Node-RED boilerplate application in IBM Cloud
- Build a web page and create a REST API in Node-RED
- Translate text, analyze tone, add audio, and send tweets from a Node-RED application by using IBM Watson cognitive services
- Create a Facebook Messenger bot and connect it to the Watson Assistant service
- Use GitHub repository to import and deploy a video captioning application
Predict Employee Turnover using IBM Watson Studio
Data Science is the discipline of acquiring data, finding insights, and sharing discoveries in all this data. The amount of data is always increasing along with its complexity. Data Scientists systemize it and make sense of it. Get a taste of Data Science process by predicting employee turnover in a company. You will be provided with a data set and use IBM Watson Studio tool.
Free
- Know what IBM Watson Studio is and its capabilities
- Use IBM Watson Studio to create a data flow and refine any type of data
- Use IBM Watson Studio to build, train and evaluate a Machine Learning model for prediction
- Deploy and test your model
- Use the model to play around and get insights with any type of dataset available online
Create a Smart Home IoT Application
Extend your knowledge of the simulated sensors. Register sensors in IBM Watson IoT Platform to manage them and visualize data. This skill journey shifts focus from Node-RED to IBM Watson IoT Platform. You will import an already existing flow and use the capabilities of both tools to visualize the data coming from the voltage sensors embedded in a smart home.
Free
- Explain the concept of a smart home
- Deploy an application to IBM Cloud
- Deploy an application to IBM Cloud
- Track your applications, devices & sensors through IBM Watson IoT platform
Identify Potential Repeat Customers for your Business
Data is everywhere in our world from academia and software development to business and industry. Before it can be out to good use, it must be properly refined by a Data Scientist. Learn how to use IBM Watson Studio and IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog to clean the data and derive new information from the data set.
Free
- Know what Watson Knowledge Catalog is and its capabilities
- Use IBM Watson Studio to refine and operate datasets
- Use IBM Watson Studio to derive information from the data
Predict Employee Turnover using IBM Watson Studio
Data Science is the discipline of acquiring data, finding insights, and sharing discoveries in all this data. The amount of data is always increasing along with its complexity. Data Scientists systemize it and make sense of it. Get a taste of Data Science process by predicting employee turnover in a company. You will be provided with a data set and use IBM Watson Studio tool.
Free
- Know what IBM Watson Studio is and its capabilities
Identify Potential Repeat Customers for your Business
Data is everywhere in our world from academia and software development to business and industry. Before it can be out to good use, it must be properly refined by a Data Scientist. Learn how to use IBM Watson Studio and IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog to clean the data and derive new information from the data set.
Free
- Know what Watson Knowledge Catalog is and its capabilities
- Use IBM Watson Studio to refine and operate datasets
- Use IBM Watson Studio to derive information from the data
Develop a Push Notifications Application
An API (Application Programming Interface) is a way for services and products to communicate with each other through a documented interface. As an application developer you can leverage an API with ease and invoke it via a web browser, mobile application, or device. In this course you will learn about APIs and their benefits. Additionally, you will use the IBM Cloud Push Notifications API to send Push Notifications to a sample Node.js webpage.
Free
- Describe what an Application Programming Interface is
- Describe the business drivers for the implementation of APIs
- Identify the business benefits of APIs
- Describe the concept of web APIs
Deploy a Microservices based Web Application
Development of cloud native apps that are broken down into a set of microservices has been praised and commended as best practices in software development methodologies. Software stacks like Kubernetes, which enable cloud native computing, have therefore picked up quite a bit of popularity. In this course, we will describe how a hypothetical, real-world application can be broken down into a set of microservices, where core functionality is delegated to the appropriate microservice, and the web-app portal is left as lightweight as possible.
Free
- What are Microservices
- What are containers
- How to user docker to containerize microservices
- What is Kubernetes
Analyzing and Predicting Heart Failure on IBM Cloud
You are a busy developer, a data scientist or a user with not much coding experience and want the fastest path delivering data insights to users, but this requires deep expertise in many technology domains. In this skill, you will earn a powerful tool called Jupyter Notebook which contains live code, equations and visualizations to build a machine learning model that demonstrates ways to predict heart rate failure.After creating this predictive model, inputs that are entered can be scored to form a prediction for an individual case. Note that this application is used for demonstrative and illustrative purposes only and does not constitute an offering that has gone through regulatory review.
Free
- Build a predictive model within a Jupyter Notebook
- Deploy the model to IBM Watson Machine Learning service
- Access the machine learning model through either APIs or a Node.js app
Create a Smart Home IoT Application
Extend your knowledge of the simulated sensors. Register sensors in IBM Watson IoT Platform to manage them and visualize data. This skill journey shifts focus from Node-RED to IBM Watson IoT Platform. You will import an already existing flow and use the capabilities of both tools to visualize the data coming from the voltage sensors embedded in a smart home.
Free
- Explain the concept of a smart home
- Deploy an application to IBM Cloud
- Observe the real-time data using Node-RED charts
- Track your applications, devices & sensors through IBM Watson IoT platform
Predict Employee Turnover using IBM Watson Studio
Data Science is the discipline of acquiring data, finding insights, and sharing discoveries in all this data. The amount of data is always increasing along with its complexity. Data Scientists systemize it and make sense of it. Get a taste of Data Science process by predicting employee turnover in a company. You will be provided with a data set and use IBM Watson Studio tool.
Free
- Know what IBM Watson Studio is and its capabilities
- Use IBM Watson Studio to create a data flow and refine any type of data
- Use IBM Watson Studio to build, train and evaluate a Machine Learning model for prediction
- Deploy and test your model
- Use the model to play around and get insights with any type of dataset available online
Identify Potential Repeat Customers for your Business
Data is everywhere in our world from academia and software development to business and industry. Before it can be out to good use, it must be properly refined by a Data Scientist. Learn how to use IBM Watson Studio and IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog to clean the data and derive new information from the data set.
Free
- Know what Watson Knowledge Catalog is and its capabilities
Certification in Fundamentals of Digital Marketing
Learn the fundamentals of digital marketing, and help grow your business or career.
Free
- Make it easy for people to find a business on the web
- Reach more people locally, on social media or on mobile
- Reach more customers with advertising
- Track and measure web traffic
- Sell products or services online
- Take a business global
Get a business online
Find out how to build a digital presence, sell to customers online, and stay safe from hackers.
Free
- Accessing online opportunity
- Steps in online success
- Planning your online business strategy
- Building your online shop
- Selling more online
- Building your web presence
- Getting noticed locally
Make sure customers find you online
Learn how search engines and online advertising can help you connect with more customers.
Free
- Getting started with search
- Making search work for you
- Getting discovered with search
- Helping people nearby find you online
Promote a business with online advertising
Discover the online tools you can use to promote a business online, create your marketing strategy, and attract the right customers.
Free
- Deep dive into display advertising
- Connecting through email
- Advertising on other websites
- Visibility with search ads
- Improving your search campaigns
Expand a business to other countries
Learn how to take your business global and start selling to customers abroad.
Free
- Expand internationally
Promote a business with content
Get your business noticed and connect with more customers through social media, video, and content marketing.
Free
- Getting noticed via social media
- Deep dive into social media
- Making the most of video
- Getting started with content marketing
Understand customers needs and online behaviours
Learn how web analytics can help measure the success of your online marketing, and get better results.
Free
- Getting started with analytics
- Finding success with analytics
How to enhance and protect your online campaign
Learn how to make the most out of your digital presence to reach your audience with the right message, whilst protecting your online campaign from common cyber attacks.
Free
- Getting started with search
- Getting discovered with search
- Improving search campaigns
- Making search work for you
- Discover the possibilities of mobile
Customer Segmentation and Prospecting
Created by Northwestern University and powered by Coursera
$49$50
- Mastering the Selling Process Specialization
Python for Data Science
This free Python course provides a beginner-friendly introduction to Python for Data Science. Practice through lab exercises, and you'll be ready to create your first Python scripts on your own!
Free
- Python Basics
- Python Data Structures
- Python Programming Fundamentals
- Working with Data in Python
Machine Learning with Python
This Machine Learning with Python course dives into the basics of machine learning using an approachable, and well-known, programming language.
Free
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