Data Science Foundations: Data Structures and Algorithms Specialization

{Sriram Sankaranarayanan, Coursera}

Building fast and highly performant data science applications requires an intimate knowledge of how data can be organized in a computer and how to efficiently perform operations such as sorting, searching, and indexing. 

This course will teach the fundamentals of data structures and algorithms with a focus on data science applications. This specialization is targeted toward learners who are broadly interested in programming applications that process large amounts of data (expertise in data science is not required), and are familiar with the basics of programming in Python. 

We will learn about various data structures including arrays, hash-tables, heaps, trees, and graphs along with algorithms including sorting, searching, traversal, and shortest path algorithms.