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15 Best Data Processing Courses on Coursera

We compared 15 Data Processing courses currently listed on Coursera, priced from $49.00 to $99.00. 8 come from a named university or institution, including University of Colorado Boulder, Johns Hopkins University and Duke University. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.

Courses compared
15
Price range
$49.00 – $99.00
Providers
Coursera
Last updated
30 Aug 2026
How these 15 courses were chosen

Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, matched to "data processing" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.

The grade on each entry scores how much the provider publishes about the course before you pay — the length and detail of the description, whether it lists learning outcomes and objectives — and whether a named university or institution stands behind it. A is fully documented and institution-backed; E is little more than a title and a price. Courses with almost nothing published are left ungraded rather than marked down, because an unknown course and a poor one are not the same thing.

There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $49.00 to $99.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.

  1. 1
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Lowest price here University-backed

    Data Processing and Manipulation

    Offered by University of Colorado Boulder

    The "Data Processing and Manipulation" course provides students with a comprehensive understanding of various data processing and manipulation concepts and tools. Participants will learn how to handle missing values, det...

    $49.00
    listed price
  2. 2
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit

    AWS Data Processing and Analysis

    Offered by Packt

    Updated in May 2025. This course now features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as yo...

    $49.00
    listed price
  3. 3
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit

    Advanced Excel Data Processing and VBA Automation

    Offered by Coursera

    Unlock the full potential of Excel as a professional-grade financial analysis and automation tool. This advanced course goes far beyond basic spreadsheet operations, teaching you how to transform raw data into reliable,...

    $49.00
    listed price
  4. 4
    Coursera Certificate

    Serverless Data Processing with Dataflow

    Offered by Google Cloud

    It is becoming harder and harder to maintain a technology stack that can keep up with the growing demands of a data-driven business. Every Big Data practitioner is familiar with the three V’s of Big Data: volume, velocit...

    $49.00
    listed price
  5. 5
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit

    Data Processing, Exploratory Analysis and Visualization

    Offered by Microsoft

    This course introduces distributed computing frameworks and big data visualization techniques. Learners will explore MapReduce, work with Apache Spark, implement transformations with PySpark, and use Spark SQL for large-...

    $49.00
    listed price
  6. 6
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit University-backed

    The R Programming Environment

    Offered by Johns Hopkins University

    This course provides a rigorous introduction to the R programming language, with a particular focus on using R for software development in a data science setting. Whether you are part of a data science team or working in...

    $49.00
    listed price
  7. 7
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit University-backed

    Java Programming: Build a Recommendation System

    Offered by Duke University

    Ever wonder how Netflix decides what movies to recommend for you? Or how Amazon recommends books? We can get a feel for how it works by building a simplified recommender of our own! In this capstone, you will show off yo...

    $79.00
    listed price
  8. 8
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit University-backed

    Big Data Analytics

    Offered by O.P. Jindal Global University

    Ready to turn massive, complex datasets into actionable business insights? This advanced Big Data Analytics course is designed for learners with basic SQL, Python programming, and experience using predictive tools who wa...

    $49.00
    listed price
  9. 9
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit University-backed

    Capstone: Retrieving, Processing, and Visualizing Data with Python

    Offered by University of Michigan

    In the capstone, students will build a series of applications to retrieve, process and visualize data using Python. The projects will involve all the elements of the specialization. In the first part of the capstone, stu...

    $99.00
    listed price
  10. 10
    Coursera Certificate University-backed

    Eine Fallstudie Anfertigen

    Offered by Google

    Dies ist der achte Kurs im Google Data Analytics Certificate. Sie haben die Möglichkeit, eine optionale Fallstudie anzufertigen, die Sie auf die Jobsuche im Bereich Data Analytics vorbereitet. Fallstudien werden häufig v...

    $49.00
    listed price
  11. 11
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit University-backed

    Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

    Offered by University of Colorado Boulder

    The Introduction to Artificial Intelligence course provides a comprehensive survey of the foundations of artificial intelligence. Supported by the classic textbook Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by Stuart Rus...

    $49.00
    listed price
  12. 12
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit University-backed

    Research Instruments and Research Hypotheses

    Offered by Queen Mary University of London

    This course concentrates on the design and development of different research instruments. In this vein, the focus will be placed on the development of an instrument design strategy, scales of measurement and the componen...

    $49.00
    listed price
  13. 13
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit University-backed

    Reliability, Cloud Computing and Machine Learning

    Offered by Johns Hopkins University

    The course "Reliability, Cloud Computing and Machine Learning" explores advanced distributed database concepts, focusing on transaction management, reliability protocols, and data warehousing, while also diving deeper in...

    $49.00
    listed price
  14. 14
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit University-backed

    Machine Learning for Smart Beta

    Offered by Sungkyunkwan University

    In this 4 week course, you will learn about Smart Beta products. Smart betas products have the characteristics of both passive investment(having predetermined rules) and active investments(allows for factor investment)....

    $49.00
    listed price
  15. 15
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit University-backed

    CUDA at Scale for the Enterprise

    Offered by Johns Hopkins University

    This course will aid in students in learning in concepts that scale the use of GPUs and the CPUs that manage their use beyond the most common consumer-grade GPU installations. They will learn how to manage asynchronous w...

    $49.00
    listed price

Best Data Processing Courses on Coursera compared

# Course Provider Offered by Price
1 Data Processing and Manipulation Coursera University of Colorado Boulder $49.00 View →
2 AWS Data Processing and Analysis Coursera Packt $49.00 View →
3 Advanced Excel Data Processing and VBA Automation Coursera Coursera $49.00 View →
4 Serverless Data Processing with Dataflow Coursera Google Cloud $49.00 View →
5 Data Processing, Exploratory Analysis and Visualization Coursera Microsoft $49.00 View →
6 The R Programming Environment Coursera Johns Hopkins University $49.00 View →
7 Java Programming: Build a Recommendation System Coursera Duke University $79.00 View →
8 Big Data Analytics Coursera O.P. Jindal Global University $49.00 View →
9 Capstone: Retrieving, Processing, and Visualizing Data with Python Coursera University of Michigan $99.00 View →
10 Eine Fallstudie Anfertigen Coursera Google $49.00 View →
11 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Coursera University of Colorado Boulder $49.00 View →
12 Research Instruments and Research Hypotheses Coursera Queen Mary University of London $49.00 View →
13 Reliability, Cloud Computing and Machine Learning Coursera Johns Hopkins University $49.00 View →
14 Machine Learning for Smart Beta Coursera Sungkyunkwan University $49.00 View →
15 CUDA at Scale for the Enterprise Coursera Johns Hopkins University $49.00 View →

Prices shown are the provider's listed price when we last updated this page. Confirm on their site before enrolling.

What the prices here tell you

The 15 priced courses on this page run from $49.00 to $99.00, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $50.00. The options are closely priced, so cost is unlikely to be your deciding factor. A higher price on this page usually reflects who is behind the course rather than how much material it contains, so it is worth opening two or three at different price points and comparing their syllabus before deciding.

Who is behind these courses

These courses come from Coursera. Everything on this page is sold on the one platform, so the buying experience is the same whichever you pick. 8 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including University of Colorado Boulder, Johns Hopkins University and Duke University — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.

Before you enrol

Open the provider’s own page and check three things this comparison cannot tell you: when the course was last updated, what the syllabus actually covers in its later sections, and what recent learners say. Prices shown here are the provider’s listed price when we last rebuilt this page on 30 August 2026 — they change often, and a promotion can move them substantially. We earn a commission if you enrol through our links, which costs you nothing and never affects the order courses appear in.

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