DataCamp curates a page for its most popular topics, with offerings across various formats exploring areas including artificial intelligence, data engineering, business intelligence and Cloud. You can take standalone courses or enroll in tracks that progress through pre-determined courses to build skills in specific areas.

According to our DataCamp colleagues, the most popular course is Introduction to ChatGPT, which was recently refreshed with more prompt-writing activities to help users develop their skills through real-world use cases.

Here are some of DataCamp’s popular options:

• Understanding prompt engineering
• AI ethics
• Understanding Cloud computing
• Introduction to Java
• Advanced Excel functions
• Developing Large Language Models

DataCamp offers adaptive assessments that evaluate your current skills in a particular topic, adapting prompts to your responses to deliver personalized recommendations for courses and tracks that fit your needs. In just ten minutes, you can take one of 28 different assessments to find out where you stand.  

Through DataCamp, users can earn three types of certifications. These certifications provide an opportunity to develop valuable career skills that will help you level up your career and enhance your resume at low or no cost.

• Technology certifications: prove your knowledge in specific technologies to earn additional credentials or demonstrate competence.
  • Free partner certifications: KNIME Analytics basic proficiency, Alteryx Designer Core
  • Partner exams: AWS Cloud Practitioner
  • Discounted partner exams: Microsoft Azure fundamentals (50% off), Exam PL-300 Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst (50% off), GitHub foundations (75% off)
  • Prepare with DataCamp: Tableau Certified Data Analyst
  • Created by DataCamp: SQL Associate, Python Data Associate
• Career certifications: boost your career by demonstrating your ability to perform in key data roles, including data analyst, data scientist, data engineer and AI engineer for data scientist.
• Fundamentals certifications: showcase knowledge of foundational concepts in Data Literacy or AI Fundamentals.

DataCamp offers a risk-free sandbox training environment that allows users to work with real-world data without compromising the security or integrity of their own data.

• Try your hand at real world projects: Users can use data notebooks and BI applications to apply knowledge to one of 164 real scenarios, testing or refining understanding of their data knowledge.
  • Write SQL queries to answer questions about international debt using World Bank data.
  • Conduct a supply chain analysis of the ingredients used in avocado toast using Python.
  • Use logistic regression in R to determine effectiveness of treatment procedures for kidney stone removal.
• Join weekly Code along sessions:  Users can work through one of 148 real world problems from start to finish with instructor guidance.
  • Learn techniques to analyze and visualize data, design dashboards and understand various features used for business reporting within Tableau.
  • Practice using PivotCharts and PivotTables in Excel to visualize sales data.
  • Build chatbots with long-term memory using OpenAI API and Pinecone.

DataCamp’s dynamic leaderboard provides a real-time snapshot of the top users at USC, changing with each experience point earned. Once you have registered and set up your profile, you can explore the leaderboard and challenge your peers to a friendly competition.