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Data Scientist

This advanced Nanodegree prepares you to tackle data science at scale. Work with AI best practices, build production-ready projects, and gain the confidence to lead data-driven solutions.

  • Nanodegree Program
  • Advanced
  • 61 hours
  • 4.8 (814)
  • Updated: Mar 10, 2026

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Skills you'll learn

61 skills

  • Blog posts
  • Magic methods
  • Unit testing
  • Data storytelling
  • CRISP-DM

Prerequisites

8 prerequisites

Prior to enrolling, you should have the following knowledge:

  • Github
  • Matrix operations
  • matplotlib
  • Linear regression
  • Pandas

You will also need to be able to communicate fluently and professionally in written and spoken English.

Program Outline

  • 6 courses
  • 18 lessons
  • 4 projects

Program Instructors

7 instructors

Unlike typical professors, our instructors come from Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies and have demonstrated leadership and expertise in their professions:

David Elliott

Data Scientist, Data Engineer

Antje Muntzinger

Professor of Computer Vision

Nathan Klarer

CEO

Joshua Bernhard

Staff Data Scientist at Marketplace

Jo-L Collins

Senior Lead Data Scientist

Victor Geislinger

Machine Learning Engineer

Matt Maybeno

Principal Software Engineer

David Elliott

Data Scientist, Data Engineer

Antje Muntzinger

Professor of Computer Vision

Nathan Klarer

CEO

Joshua Bernhard

Staff Data Scientist at Marketplace

Jo-L Collins

Senior Lead Data Scientist

Reviews

Average Rating: 4.8 (814 Reviews)

The content is great although a bit dated on some topic, and sometimes the videos seems to come from other modules and refer to content not seen in the nano-degree, however overall the experience is good and the exercise helps a lot.

Edgar Maucourant

Jun 18, 2025

Great course to understand modern algorithms in RL.

Andrei

Sep 9, 2024

Considering that to buy this course you need to pay Udacity subscription at least one month (250$), this course is simply a scam: Pytorch codes from 6 years ago! That is, the course is still exactly the same from the day it was released, and today (as of 2024) it is outdated. What's more, in some videos they name certain Git hub repositories that have changed. This appears in the actor-critic methods section, which is literally a man marketing himself and reading the code without explaining it, as if he were reading poems. Generally poor explanations of videos of less than 5 minutes, unless you consult the papers and the book that offers, if you start watching the videos you learn rather little. Very poor explanations of programming codes. Unpractical exercises. You have to solve DL problems from already built environments, that is, the practical part is limited to solve video game type environments that have no real life utility. Anywhere is there an example of how to build your own environment? → NO, Impossible deliverables. If you give me a few GPU hours and I have to build my own models and test infinite hyperparameters how am I going to perform that task, if all I can do is copy a code from the internet that I know works so I don't spend those hours? They give very few GPU hours to solve the problems, and these have a lot to do with launching a model, waiting, changing hyperparameters etc. The only good thing about the course is the papers and github repos it redirects to, which are useful. I mean, you pay an absurd amount of money for some internet links. My first and last course at Udacity :)

Angela G

Apr 12, 2024

Amazing course with the most advanced knowledge about deep RL, yet presented in so pleasant way, that it was such a great adventure to learn and gain new skills with Deep Reinforcement Learning Course! Thank you very much.

Agnieszka L

Nov 15, 2023

The course explains even the heavy concepts very easily.

Anuj P

Aug 22, 2023

About this program

Elevate your data science career with advanced ML, real-world pipelines & AI best practices. Enroll in Udacity's Data Scientist Nanodegree Program to level up now!

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