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    University of Pennsylvania

    Cryptocurrency and Blockchain: An Introduction to Digital Currencies

    Skills you'll gain: Blockchain, Cryptography, Digital Assets, Investments, Portfolio Management, Investment Management, FinTech, Asset Management, Financial Analysis, Financial Market, Emerging Technologies, Public Key Infrastructure, Finance, Encryption, Return On Investment, Distributed Computing, Risk Analysis

    4.6
    Rating, 4.6 out of 5 stars
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    Mixed · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    University of Amsterdam

    Inferential Statistics

    Skills you'll gain: Regression Analysis, Statistical Inference, Statistics, Statistical Modeling

    4.3
    Rating, 4.3 out of 5 stars
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    602 reviews

    Mixed · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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    Amazon Web Services

    Exam Prep: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Foundations

    Skills you'll gain: Amazon Web Services, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), Cloud Computing Architecture, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Security, Cloud Services, Amazon S3, Cloud Computing, Infrastructure As A Service (IaaS), Scalability

    4.6
    Rating, 4.6 out of 5 stars
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    110 reviews

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    IE Business School

    The Marketing Plan

    Skills you'll gain: Marketing Planning, Business Planning, Marketing Strategies, Product Marketing, Go To Market Strategy, Marketing Strategy and Techniques, Case Studies, Planning, Target Market, Marketing Budgets, Marketing Analytics, Brand Strategy, Market Analysis, Competitive Analysis, Profit and Loss (P&L) Management

    4.6
    Rating, 4.6 out of 5 stars
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    487 reviews

    Mixed · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    Berklee

    Introduction to Ableton Live

    Skills you'll gain: File Management, Music, Automation, Editing, Technical Support, Creativity

    4.8
    Rating, 4.8 out of 5 stars
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    1.1K reviews

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    Queen Mary University of London

    Cloud Computing Law

    Skills you'll gain: General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Cloud Services, Legal Risk, Cloud Computing, Tax, Tax Laws, Law, Regulation, and Compliance, Intellectual Property, Cloud Security, Personally Identifiable Information, Tax Compliance, Data Security, Information Privacy, Regulation and Legal Compliance, Contract Negotiation, Vendor Contracts, Contract Review, Data Governance, Data Access, Cybersecurity

    4.9
    Rating, 4.9 out of 5 stars
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    172 reviews

    Beginner · Specialization · 1 - 3 Months

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    SkillUp

    Tableau Data Analyst Certification Preparation

    Skills you'll gain: Dashboard, Data Storytelling, Tableau Software, Peer Review, Data Visualization Software, Presentations, Data Visualization, Interactive Data Visualization, Data Cleansing, Business Intelligence, Real Time Data, Data Manipulation, Data Presentation, Data Analysis Expressions (DAX), Transact-SQL, Data Quality, Data Transformation, Data Sharing, Data Integration, Data Analysis

    4.6
    Rating, 4.6 out of 5 stars
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    71 reviews

    Advanced · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

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    Johns Hopkins University

    Principles of Management

    Skills you'll gain: Business Ethics, Leadership and Management, Organizational Strategy, Project Management, Leadership Studies, Influencing, Team Management, Conflict Management, Employee Coaching, Strategic Thinking, Team Building, Decision Making, Coaching, Relationship Building, Communication, Business Communication, Active Listening

    4.7
    Rating, 4.7 out of 5 stars
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    580 reviews

    Mixed · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    Advancing Women in Tech

    Real-World Cloud Product Management

    Skills you'll gain: Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, Amazon S3, Cloud Storage, Technical Product Management, Cloud Services, Cloud Security, Cloud Infrastructure, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), Amazon DynamoDB, Cloud Computing Architecture, AWS CloudFormation, Network Architecture, Amazon Redshift, Data Security, Databases, Innovation, Technical Support, Product Management

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    4.5
    Rating, 4.5 out of 5 stars
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    91 reviews

    Beginner · Specialization · 1 - 3 Months

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    Packt

    The Complete Ethical Hacking Bootcamp: Beginner To Advanced

    Skills you'll gain: Linux Commands, Metasploit, Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), Linux, Penetration Testing, Vulnerability Scanning, Command-Line Interface, Exploitation techniques, Scripting, Vulnerability Assessments, General Networking, Scripting Languages, Cyber Security Assessment, Python Programming, Web Applications, Cybersecurity, Data Ethics, Firewall, Network Security, Computer Networking

    4.3
    Rating, 4.3 out of 5 stars
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    44 reviews

    Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

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    Corporate Finance Institute

    BI Essentials for Finance Analysts (Power BI Edition)

    Skills you'll gain: Data Analysis Expressions (DAX), Power BI, Snowflake Schema, Data Modeling, SQL, Dashboard, Microsoft Excel, Business Intelligence, Excel Formulas, Pivot Tables And Charts, Data Import/Export, Business Reporting, Databases, Interactive Data Visualization, Data Storytelling, Financial Statements, Data Manipulation, Data Transformation, Financial Analysis, Data Visualization

    4.8
    Rating, 4.8 out of 5 stars
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    293 reviews

    Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

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    University of Minnesota

    Recommender Systems

    Skills you'll gain: AI Personalization, Machine Learning Algorithms, Taxonomy, Applied Machine Learning, Machine Learning, Dimensionality Reduction, Performance Metric, Spreadsheet Software, Performance Measurement, Benchmarking, Usability Testing, Exploratory Data Analysis, A/B Testing, Analysis, User Feedback, Algorithms, System Design and Implementation, Solution Design, Data-Driven Decision-Making, Predictive Modeling

    4.3
    Rating, 4.3 out of 5 stars
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    829 reviews

    Intermediate · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

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In summary, here are 10 of our most popular software security courses

  • Cryptocurrency and Blockchain: An Introduction to Digital Currencies: University of Pennsylvania
  • Inferential Statistics: University of Amsterdam
  • Exam Prep: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Foundations: Amazon Web Services
  • The Marketing Plan: IE Business School
  • Introduction to Ableton Live: Berklee
  • Cloud Computing Law: Queen Mary University of London
  • Tableau Data Analyst Certification Preparation: SkillUp
  • Principles of Management: Johns Hopkins University
  • Real-World Cloud Product Management: Advancing Women in Tech
  • The Complete Ethical Hacking Bootcamp: Beginner To Advanced: Packt

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