Shaun William Marais Shaun William Marais

Stacked learning

Stacked learning is a structured way in which I develop knowledge and skills incrementally. Each short course I complete serves as a building block, allowing me to gain foundational knowledge and then apply and expand upon it in subsequent courses.

Data Science for Investment Professionals

This Specialisation focuses on the power of data and machine learning in investment finance.

Python for Everyone

This Specialisation teaches how to program and analyse data with Python. I have learned to develop programs to gather, clean, analyse, and visualise data using Python.

Methods and Statistics in Social Sciences

This Specialisation covers research methods, design and statistical analysis for social science research questions. I used learnings from this course to perform my first regression analysis.

Timeline of all short courses completed since 2020

Field Specialisation Course title Date completed
Python Python for Everybody Capstone: Retrieving, Processing, and Visualizing Data with Python September 2022
Python Python for Everybody Using Databases with Python September 2022
Python Python for Everybody Using Python to Access Web Data August 2022
Python Python for Everybody Python Data Structures July 2022
Python Python for Everybody Programming for Everybody (Getting Started with Python) July 2022
Psychology Foundations of Positive Psychology Positive Psychology: Applications and Interventions April 2022
Psychology Foundations of Positive Psychology Positive Psychology: Character, Grit and Research Methods June 2022
Psychology Foundations of Positive Psychology Positive Psychology: Resilience Skills June 2022
Psychology Foundations of Positive Psychology Positive Psychology: Martin E. P. Seligman’s Visionary Science October 2021
Psychology Foundations of Positive Psychology Positive Psychology Specialization Project: Design Your Life for Well-being July 2022
Statistics Methods and statistics in social sciences Methods and Statistics in Social Science – Final Research Project December 2021
Statistics Methods and statistics in social sciences Methods and Statistics in Social Sciences December 2021
Statistics Methods and statistics in social sciences Qualitative Research Methods July 2021
Statistics Methods and statistics in social sciences Basic Statistics April 2021
Statistics Methods and statistics in social sciences Quantitative Methods August 2020
Statistics Methods and statistics in social sciences Inferential Statistics July 2020
Finance – Finance for Non-Finance Professionals February 2022