Climate Change and Human Rights (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/climate-change-and-human-rights

This course is primarily aimed at anyone interested in learning about the growing field of climate change and human rights. It will discuss the history of the field, key actors and cases, as well as emerging trends and takeaways. This course is taught by César Rodríguez-Garavito, Professor of Clinical Law and Faculty Director and Chair of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU School of Law.

Cyber Attack Countermeasures (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/cyber-attack-countermeasures

This course introduces the basics of cyber defense starting with foundational models such as Bell-LaPadula and information flow frameworks. These underlying policy enforcements mechanisms help introduce basic functional protections, starting with authentication methods. Learners will be introduced to a series of different authentication solutions and protocols, including RSA SecureID and Kerberos, in the context of a canonical schema.   The basics of cryptography are also introduced with attent

Engineering Health: Introduction to Yoga and Physiology (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/engineering-health-yoga-physiology

This course gives you access to an exploration of physiological systems from the perspective of overall health and wellness. In particular, a focus on yoga, meditation and mindfulness as a therapeutic intervention in chronic illness and long term treatment. This course is intended for yoga practitioners and teachers, as well as college students and medical practitioners looking for a deeper understanding of the physiological benefits of yoga. The value of taking this course is to understand the

Enterprise and Infrastructure Security (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/enterprise-infrastructure-security

This course introduces a series of advanced and current topics in cyber security, many of which are especially relevant in modern enterprise and infrastructure settings. The basics of enterprise compliance frameworks are provided with introduction to NIST and PCI. Hybrid cloud architectures are shown to provide an opportunity to fix many of the security weaknesses in modern perimeter local area networks.   Emerging security issues in blockchain, blinding algorithms, Internet of Things (IoT), and

Guided Tour of Machine Learning in Finance (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/guided-tour-machine-learning-finance

This course aims at providing an introductory and broad overview of the field of ML with the focus on applications on Finance. Supervised Machine Learning methods are used in the capstone project to predict bank closures. Simultaneously, while this course can be taken as a separate course, it serves as a preview of topics that are covered in more details in subsequent modules of the specialization Machine Learning and Reinforcement Learning in Finance. The goal of Guided Tour of Machine Learnin

Information Visualization (CourseraSpecs)

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/information-visualization

Offered by New York University. Design, evaluate and develop data visualizations. Master the foundational principles and practice of ...

Information Visualization: Advanced Techniques (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/information-visualization-advanced-techniques

This course aims to introduce learners to advanced visualization techniques beyond the basic charts covered in Information Visualization: Fundamentals. These techniques are organized around data types to cover advance methods for: temporal and spatial data, networks and trees and textual data. In this module we also teach learners how to develop innovative techniques in D3.js. Learning Goals Goal: Analyze the design space of visualization solutions for various kinds of data visualization proble

Information Visualization: Applied Perception (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/information-visualization-applied-perception

This module aims at introducing fundamental concepts of visual perception applied to information visualization. These concepts help the student ideate and evaluate visualization designs in terms of how well they leverage the capabilities of the human perceptual machinery.

Information Visualization: Foundations (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/information-visualization-fundamentals

The main goal of this specialization is to provide the knowledge and practical skills necessary to develop a strong foundation on information visualization and to design and develop advanced applications for visual data analysis. This course aims at introducing fundamental knowledge for information visualization. The main goal is to provide the students with the necessary “vocabulary” to describe visualizations in a way that helps them reason about what designs are appropriate for a given probl

Information Visualization: Programming with D3.js (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/information-visualization-programming-d3js

In this course you will learn how to use D3.js to create powerful visualizations for web. Learning D3.js will enable you to create many different types of visualization and to visualize many different data types. It will give you the freedom to create something as simple as a bar chart as well your own new revolutionary technique. In this course we will cover the basics of creating visualizations with D3 as well as how to deal with tabular data, geography and networks. By the end of this cours

Introduction to Cyber Attacks (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/intro-cyber-attacks

This course provides learners with a baseline understanding of common cyber security threats, vulnerabilities, and risks. An overview of how basic cyber attacks are constructed and applied to real systems is also included. Examples include simple Unix kernel hacks, Internet worms, and Trojan horses in software utilities. Network attacks such as distributed denial of service (DDOS) and botnet- attacks are also described and illustrated using real examples from the past couple of decades. Famili

Introduction to Cyber Security (CourseraSpecs)

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/intro-cyber-security

Offered by New York University. Cyber Security. An introduction to modern information and system protection technology and methods.

Machine Learning and Reinforcement Learning in Finance (CourseraSpecs)

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/machine-learning-reinforcement-finance

Offered by New York University. Reinforce Your Career: Machine Learning in Finance. Extend your expertise of algorithms and tools needed to ...

Overview of Advanced Methods of Reinforcement Learning in Finance (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/advanced-methods-reinforcement-learning-finance

In the last course of our specialization, Overview of Advanced Methods of Reinforcement Learning in Finance, we will take a deeper look into topics discussed in our third course, Reinforcement Learning in Finance. In particular, we will talk about links between Reinforcement Learning, option pricing and physics, implications of Inverse Reinforcement Learning for modeling market impact and price dynamics, and perception-action cycles in Reinforcement Learning. Finally, we will overview trending

Real-Time Cyber Threat Detection and Mitigation (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/real-time-cyber-threat-detection

This course introduces real-time cyber security techniques and methods in the context of the TCP/IP protocol suites. Explanation of some basic TCP/IP security hacks is used to introduce the need for network security solutions such as stateless and stateful firewalls. Learners will be introduced to the techniques used to design and configure firewall solutions such as packet filters and proxies to protect enterprise assets. Perimeter solutions such as firewalls and intrusion prevention systems a

Reinforcement Learning in Finance (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/reinforcement-learning-in-finance

This course aims at introducing the fundamental concepts of Reinforcement Learning (RL), and develop use cases for applications of RL for option valuation, trading, and asset management. By the end of this course, students will be able to - Use reinforcement learning to solve classical problems of Finance such as portfolio optimization, optimal trading, and option pricing and risk management. - Practice on valuable examples such as famous Q-learning using financial problems. - Apply their know

Richard Schechner's Introduction to Performance Studies (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/richard-schechners-introduction-to-performance-studies

Performance Studies: An Introduction explores the wide world of performance--from theatre, dance, and music to ritual, play, political campaigns, social media, and the performances of everyday life. Performance studies also ranges across cultures--Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, the Americas. And it spans historical periods from the art of the paleolithic caves to YouTube and the avantgarde. This course is devised by Richard Schechner, one of the pioneers of performance studies, in dialogue