Free learning opportunities to build skillsNote: You will need to sign up for a free account for the following online learning opportunities.

1. Kaggle offers free online micro courses to help you gain the skills you need to do independent data science projects. Kaggle also allows you to grow your data science and machine learning skills by competing in Kaggle competitions. Find help in the documentation or learn about Community Competitions.

2. Udemy offers a free, short video-based course called An Introduction to Data Science where you can learn about basic data concepts.

3. freeCodeCamp.org offers a YouTube video-based course called Data Science: An Introduction by Barton Poulson. The course covers the foundations of data science, data sourcing, coding, mathematics, and statistics. You’ll also find many kinds of other free learning opportunities on freeCodeCamp.

4. DataCamp offers a free two-hour Understanding Data Science course which introduces data science without coding involved.

5. W3Schools is the world's largest web developer site that offers a variety of free online tutorials with hands-on practice. The site includes tutorials on some popular data science programming languages, such as Python, R, and SQL.

6. Codecademy offers free coding classes on 12 different programming languages, including Python and SQL.

7. Code Patterns by IBM Developer offers free code solutions to problems that developers face every day, across technologies.
   You can also take advantage of IBM SkillsBuild to power your future in tech with job skills, courses, digital credentials, and more.