Showcase Your Expertise. Put everything you've learned to the test with three portfolio-worthy projects. Demonstrate your mastery of data science principles, advanced analytics, and machine learning models.
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Put everything you've learned to the test with three portfolio-worthy projects. Demonstrate your mastery of data science principles, advanced analytics, and machine learning models. This is your chance to impress future employers.
Financing and flexible payment options available. Learn more
Your journey in data science culminates with a series of capstone projects that bring together everything you’ve learned. You’ll be tasked with solving real-world problems using advanced analytics, machine learning, and data visualization. Each project is designed to showcase your ability to integrate data science principles with practical business solutions, creating a portfolio that highlights your skills and expertise. This is your chance to demonstrate your readiness for the professional world, proving to potential employers that you have what it takes to succeed in the competitive field of data science.
The SMU x Flatiron School difference:
Career services are included with each capstone and bootcamp program. Designed by and for tech professionals, you'll experience a full technical interview process from start to finish, getting direct and personalized feedback each step of the way. Visit the career services page to learn more about the full process.
Prerequisites: Data Science Essentials, Data Science Foundations I, Data Science Foundations II
Before starting your Capstone project, make sure you have:
Industry-approved curriculum to support your journey into data science
Data Science Capstone - 15 weeks
Large Language Models
This course equips you with the skills to deploy and optimize cutting-edge machine learning systems in real-world scenarios. You will explore the open-source MLOps stack, learning to manage the entire ML lifecycle, including deployment, monitoring, and version control. The course emphasizes data-centric approaches for enhancing the performance of large language models (LLMs) through high-quality data curation and preprocessing. You will also master techniques for fine-tuning pre-trained models and leveraging prompt engineering to optimize output for specific tasks. By the end of the course, you will be adept at integrating and maintaining advanced AI solutions in dynamic environments.
What you’ll do:
Prerequisites:
AI Capstone
In this intensive course you will be tasked with developing 2 different projects. In these projects you will be expected to frame your projects around solving a business problem. You will be expected to bring all your skills from Foundations together to build 2 different methods: a classification supervised model, and a classified unsupervised large language model.
What you’ll do:
Prerequisites:
Upfront
$5,200
Pay as You Go
$5,700
4 monthly payments of $1,425
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1. Take the Assessment: Take our short 15-minute cognitive assessment. Don’t worry, no studying or technical skills required! This step is required for admission.
2. Create a Genius Account: You'll receive an email from Genius, a platform we use to guide you along the registration process. You'll create an account and use it to register through our course catalog.
Yes! Upon the completion of each program in the pathway, you will receive a Credly digital badge from SMU and a completion certificate. Digital badges can be used in email signatures or digital resumes, and certificates can be displayed on portfolio websites and social media sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.
Thousands of our community members use their program certificates and badges to demonstrate skills to potential employers — including our hiring partners — along with their LinkedIn networks. Our curriculum is powered by Flatiron School, whose programs are well-regarded by many top employers, who contribute to our curriculum, hire our community, and partner with us to train their own teams.
Whether you want to analyze data, develop software, prevent the next cyber attack, or create the next internet-breaking AI, we provide the training to bring your ideas to life.
Let's build your future together.
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