Microsoft has announced a new Microsoft Professional Degree (MPD) program. A series of courses on Data Science are now available from edX.org. The goal of these courses is to address the skills gap for data science job seekers. Current prices are $50 to $100 per course.

Some of the same course titles include:

• Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Excel

• Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Power BI

• Introduction to R for Data Science
  
• Data Science Essentials