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Emanuela Manea is a General Pediatrician with 8 years of experience practicing medicine in the European Union. She recently completed a Fellowship in Inherited Metabolic Disorders in London, where she continues to work as Consultant in General Paediatrics.   Ever since medical school, I have been fascinated by cellular signalling and its pathology. This was…

Congratulations! You’ve made the decision to pursue an online degree. Making this commitment to your future should feel exciting and empowering — but you also might feel anxious about telling your boss. You shouldn’t. Many students enrolled in a Master’s degree program with Coursera complete their coursework while continuing at their current job and even…

High-quality and relevant data can be a powerful force for good, but flawed data only perpetuates inequalities under the guise of fairness. At its best, data science can impact global societies in incredible ways. It can work to enhance ocean health, identify and deliver food surpluses to feed the hungry, and use cellphone data to…

Common data science terms your manager will expect you to know. Data science is, among other things, a language, according to Robert Brunner, a professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois. This concept might come as a shock to those who associate data science jobs with numbers alone. Data scientists…