Data Science with Generative AI
Where classic data science meets generative models — RAG, fine-tuning, and LLM-powered analytics.
One-time course fee
Who should take this?
Analysts, data professionals, researchers, and evidence-oriented business professionals.
Capability developed
Turn data and documents into defensible analysis, models, evaluations, and decision-support systems.
Professional application
Analytics, data products, model delivery, research, or grounded generative-AI work.
What’s inside this track
- 1Generative Models in a DS Workflow
Build: Identify where GenAI actually improves an existing DS workflow.
Evidence: Stops reaching for an LLM when a regression would do the job better and cheaper.
- 2RAG for Analytics
Build: A RAG-powered analytics assistant over a real dataset.
Evidence: Can answer natural-language questions over data without hallucinated numbers.
- 3Fine-Tuning Open Models
Build: Fine-tune a small open model on a narrow, real task.
Evidence: Can decide — and execute — whether fine-tuning is worth the cost for a given problem.
- 4Shipping the Product
Build: Capstone: a generative-AI-powered analytics or agent product, evaluated and deployed.
Evidence: Ships a GenAI-powered data product end to end, not just a notebook demo.
What you get
What you will own
Not a promise — a concrete list of what you personally build and can show a buyer, pulled from this course’s real curriculum.
- A working project: Identify where GenAI actually improves an existing DS workflow.
- A working project: A RAG-powered analytics assistant over a real dataset.
- A working project: Fine-tune a small open model on a narrow, real task.
- A working project: Capstone: a generative-AI-powered analytics or agent product, evaluated and deployed.
- A completed capstone: Generative AI Analytics Assistant for Business Insights, scored across multiple dimensions
- A portfolio entry documenting how you built it, not just that you finished
- Verified skill evidence — tied to real work, not a self-rating
What you’ll prove — and own — by the end
Completion isn’t the finish line. This is what turns the course into evidence you can actually use.
Personalised from day one
A short entry diagnostic flags which modules to move through quickly and which to slow down on — the full curriculum stays available either way.
Evidence, not checkmarks
Skills track through a real mastery ladder — module completed, exercise practiced, project shipped — not just “lesson viewed.”
Your Final real-world project, AI-defended
Generative AI Analytics Assistant for Business Insights — submit real work, defend your decisions to an AI interviewer, get scored feedback across multiple dimensions.
A portfolio you can use today
Turn a finished project into a case study, resume bullets, and an interview story — drafted from your real work, yours to review before you use it anywhere.
Connect this course to practical work
See how Ropes links a skill to a business problem, portfolio proof, a bounded service, and responsible client delivery. No client or income outcome is guaranteed.
Earnings potential
A simple illustration of how freelancers commonly structure retainer pricing once they’re taking on client work.
Analytics & ML consulting
Illustrative example — your results will vary based on niche, effort, and client base.
Industry snapshot
Real, sourced research — current tools, market signal, and named case studies, each with a citation. Not marketing copy.