# COVID19 Spurs Interest In Data Science Courses

Published 2020-04-22 · Updated 2026-06-09 · Education Technology on MarketScale
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> We’re all amateur epidemiologists with time on our hands. With that reality in mind, here’s a look at some of the options to bolster your data science knowhow as we all pick through COVID-19 data sets and models. These courses had high ratings on various platforms. Some are free and others charge. In addition, data…

We’re all amateur epidemiologists with time on our hands. With that reality in mind, here’s a look at some of the options to bolster your data science knowhow as we all pick through COVID-19 data sets and models. These courses had high ratings on various platforms. Some are free and others charge. In addition, data science players such as [Google](https://cloud.google.com/training/data-ml), [IBM](https://www.coursera.org/search?query=IBM&), and [Microsoft](https://www.edx.org/school/microsoft) have free offerings.

[Read the full article at ZDNet](https://www.zdnet.com/article/data-science-interest-spikes-with-covid-19-here-are-the-online-courses-to-get-you-started/).

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