MathWorks and Coursera announced a joint effort to address the data science skills gap. MathWorks is developing a series of courses entitled “Practical Data Science with MATLAB,” with the first course, “Exploratory Data Analysis with MATLAB,” now available on Coursera. Registration for the four-course Specialization, which helps learners solve domain-specific data problems using MATLAB, is now open at: coursera.org/specializations/practical-data-science-matlab. The “Practical Data Science with MATLAB” Specialization helps address this demand as it is aimed at engineers, scientists, and researchers who need to learn data science either as part of their job or to branch into new career opportunities. The series enables these domain experts to learn and apply data science without spending time building or honing software development skills. Each course takes approximately five weeks, and, upon completion of the four-course Specialization, students will be ready to start applying MATLAB to common analysis tasks found in applications such as autonomous systems, voice recognition, predictive maintenance, and medical imaging. Each course within the series forms a progressive bridge to building competencies to use MATLAB for data science: Course 1 - Exploratory Data Analysis with MATLAB; Course 2 - Data Processing and Feature Engineering with MATLAB; Course 3 - Predictive Modeling and Machine Learning with MATLAB; Course 4 - Data Science Project: MATLAB for the Real World.