# Data Science II Specialization

Expand beyond Computer Science into Statistics, Probability and Data Science

**Note:** The data science specializations are more involved and will require more effort than some of the other specializations.

| Courses                                                                                                                                                                                                           |   Status   |   Evidence   |
| :---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | :--------: | :----------: |
| [Big Data](https://cognitiveclass.ai/learn/big-data/)                                                                                                                                                             |            |
| [Statistics for Applications](https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-650-statistics-for-applications-fall-2016/index.htm)                                                                                     |            |
| [Data Science](http://cs109.github.io/2015/)                                                                                                                                                                      |            |
| [Convex Optimization](https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/Engineering/CVX101/Winter2014/about)                                                                                                                  |            |
| [Hadoop](https://cognitiveclass.ai/learn/hadoop/)                                                                                                                                                                 |            |
| **Reading**                                                                                                                                                                                                       | **Status** | **Evidence** |
| [Think Complexity](http://greenteapress.com/complexity2/thinkcomplexity2.pdf)                                                                                                                                     |            |
| [Matplotlib Tutorials](https://matplotlib.org/tutorials/index.html)                                                                                                                                               |            |
| [The Quest for Artificial Intelligence](http://ai.stanford.edu/~nilsson/QAI/qai.pdf)                                                                                                                              |            |
| [Multiagent Systems](http://www.masfoundations.org/download.html)                                                                                                                                                 |            |
| [scikit-learn](https://scikit-learn.org/stable/documentation.html)                                                                                                                                                |            |
| [Differential Equations in Data Science](https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/URXtech/techblog/blob/master/continuousTimeMarkovChain/markovChain.ipynb)                                                            |            |
| [A Course in Machine Learning](http://ciml.info/)                                                                                                                                                                 |            |
| [Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Methods for Hackers](https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/CamDavidsonPilon/Probabilistic-Programming-and-Bayesian-Methods-for-Hackers/blob/master/Prologue/Prologue.ipynb) |            |
| **Practice**                                                                                                                                                                                                      | **Status** | **Evidence** |
| Do 10 problems (of your choice) on [Rosalind](http://rosalind.info/problems/locations/)                                                                                                                           |            |
| Complete one competition of your choice from [Crowd Analytix](https://www.crowdanalytix.com/community)                                                                                                            |            |
| Complete one [Bot Programming Competition on CodinGame](https://www.codingame.com/multiplayer/bot-programming)                                                                                                    |            |
| Complete one competition of your choice on [Kaggle](https://www.kaggle.com/competitions?sortBy=prize&group=active&page=1&pageSize=20)                                                                             |            |
| Complete the [Hackerrank Artificial Intelligence Challenges](https://www.hackerrank.com/domains/ai)                                                                                                               |            |
| Complete one competition of your choice from [Crowd Analytix](https://www.crowdanalytix.com/community)                                                                                                            |            |
| Complete one competition of your choice from [Analytics Vidhya](https://datahack.analyticsvidhya.com/contest/all/)                                                                                                |            |
| Complete one competition of your choice from [Driven Data](https://www.drivendata.org/competitions/)                                                                                                              |            |
| Do 20 problems (of your choice) on [Rosalind](http://rosalind.info/problems/locations/)                                                                                                                           |            |
| Complete one [Bot Programming Competition on CodinGame](https://www.codingame.com/multiplayer/bot-programming)                                                                                                    |            |
| Complete one competition of your choice on [Kaggle](https://www.kaggle.com/competitions?sortBy=prize&group=active&page=1&pageSize=20)                                                                             |            |
| **Capstone**                                                                                                                                                                                                      | **Status** | **Evidence** |
| Create a website highlighting what you learned and built during this tier. Use this as an opportunity to create a portfolio of your projects, notes, blog posts, etc.                                             |            |