AI in eCommerce Tech
Who Is This Certification For?
Tailored for professionals seeking to leverage data and AI to boost career growth and business outcomes.
Early‑Career Tech Enthusiasts & Aspiring Data Analysts
Recent graduates or junior professionals eager to build a practical AI foundation.
Business Professionals & Mid‑Level Managers
Finance, marketing, operations seeking to leverage AI for smarter decision‑making.
Entrepreneurs & Small Business Owners
Founders and solo operators aiming to integrate AI without a dedicated tech team.
Skills You Will Get
Practical, hands‑on AI and ML competencies you’ll build through weekly projects and real‑world tools.
- Google Teachable Machine: Build a no‑code image or audio classifier from sample data.
- Scikit‑Learn Demo in Colab: Run a simple classification example (e.g., Iris dataset).
- Deliverable: “Train Your First Model” write‑up—export your Teachable Machine model, report its accuracy metrics, and describe one potential application (1 page).
Tools & Activities (2 hours hands‑on):
- Google Teachable Machine: Build a no‑code image or audio classifier from sample data.
- Scikit‑Learn Demo in Colab: Run a simple classification example (e.g., Iris dataset).
- Deliverable: “Train Your First Model” write‑up—export your Teachable Machine model, report its accuracy metrics, and describe one potential application (1 page).
- TensorFlow Playground: Experiment interactively with hyperparameters to see their effects on a toy dataset.
- Keras in Google Colab: Run a prewritten notebook to train a basic neural network on MNIST (handwritten digit recognition).
- Deliverable: Submit your Colab notebook screenshot showing model architecture, training/validation metrics, and a brief reflection (200–300 words) on parameter tuning and achieved accuracy.
Tools & Activities (2 hours hands‑on):
- TensorFlow Playground: Experiment interactively with hyperparameters to see their effects on a toy dataset.
- Keras in Google Colab: Run a prewritten notebook to train a basic neural network on MNIST (handwritten digit recognition).
- Deliverable: Submit your Colab notebook screenshot showing model architecture, training/validation metrics, and a brief reflection (200–300 words) on parameter tuning and achieved accuracy.
- Hugging Face Transformers in Colab: Run a text‑classification demo using a pretrained BERT or RoBERTa model on sample data.
- NLTK/spaCy Demo: Perform simple sentiment analysis or entity recognition on a small text corpus.
- ChatGPT Prompt Workshop: Write and test prompts for automating tasks like “Generate a customer‑support email” or “Summarize this article in bullet points.”
- Deliverable: Provide (1) two Hugging Face Colab notebook screenshots (text classification and sentiment analysis) and (2) a list of five tested ChatGPT prompts with before/after outputs and a short rationale (200–300 words total).
Tools & Activities (2 hours hands‑on):
- Hugging Face Transformers in Colab: Run a text‑classification demo using a pretrained BERT or RoBERTa model on sample data.
- NLTK/spaCy Demo: Perform simple sentiment analysis or entity recognition on a small text corpus.
- ChatGPT Prompt Workshop: Write and test prompts for automating tasks like “Generate a customer‑support email” or “Summarize this article in bullet points.”
- Deliverable: Provide (1) two Hugging Face Colab notebook screenshots (text classification and sentiment analysis) and (2) a list of five tested ChatGPT prompts with before/after outputs and a short rationale (200–300 words total).
- Power BI with AI Visuals: Connect to a sample sales dataset, generate AI‑powered insights, and create a brief automated report.
- MonkeyLearn Workflow: Upload customer reviews and train a no‑code text classifier for sentiment tagging.
- ChatGPT/Copilot Demo: Generate a business report summary or automate a standard email template.
- Ethics Debate & Reflection: Participate in a guided discussion—“Should AI replace human hiring decisions?”—and complete a short reflection quiz in Google Forms.
Tools & Activities (2 hours hands‑on):
- Power BI with AI Visuals: Connect to a sample sales dataset, generate AI‑powered insights, and create a brief automated report.
- MonkeyLearn Workflow: Upload customer reviews and train a no‑code text classifier for sentiment tagging.
- ChatGPT/Copilot Demo: Generate a business report summary or automate a standard email template.
- Ethics Debate & Reflection: Participate in a guided discussion—“Should AI replace human hiring decisions?”—and complete a short reflection quiz in Google Forms.