Explorer Badges
Coding Intro
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as what is coding, different types of programming languages, and learning to code using Blockly visual programming tool.
Cloud Intro
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as cloud computing, cloud, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Hybrid Cloud, Private Cloud, data storage, and flexible infrastructure.
Hybrid Cloud Intro
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as Cloud Computing, Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, Multicloud, Hybrid Cloud Portability, Scalability, and Security.
Artificial Intelligence Intro
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing.
Internet of Things Intro
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as Internet of Things (IoT), real-time updates, secure communication, organized data, storing information, transferring signals, and sending alerts.
Blockchain Intro
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as Blockchain, supply chain, recording transactions, transaction blocks, tamper resistent, and real-time records.
Data Science & Analytics Intro
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as Data science, analytics, gathering data, and predicting trends.
Cybersecurity Intro
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as cybersecurity, Incident Response Platform, recognizing threats, malware infected files, minimize attacks, and uncover patterns.
Quantum Computing Intro
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as what is quantum computing, Qubits, entanglement, and superposition.
Government Industry Intro
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner was exposed to Government industry that covered topics such as Government industry intro, industry profile, and the impact of technologies on the industry.
Banking and Financial Markets Industry Intro
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner was exposed to Banking & Financial Markets industry that covered topics such as introduction to Banking & Financial Markets, industry profile, and the impact of technology on the industry.
Oil and Gas Industry Intro
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner was exposed to Oil & Gas industry that covered topics such as Oil & Gas industry intro, industry profile, and the impact of technologies on the industry.
Energy and Utilities Industry Intro
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner was exposed to Energy & Utilities industry that covered topics such as Energy & Utilities Industry intro, industry profile, and the impact of technologies on the industry.
Telecommunication, Media, and Entertainment (TM&E) Industry Intro
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner was exposed to Telecommunication, Media, and Entertainment (TM&E) industry that covered topics such as TM&E industry intro, industry profile, and the impact of technologies on the industry.
Healthcare Industry Intro
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner was exposed to Healthcare industry that covered topics such as Healthcare industry intro, industry profile, and the impact of technologies on the industry.
Education Industry Intro
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner was exposed to Education industry that covered topics such as Education industry intro, industry profile, and the impact of technologies on the industry.
Travel & Transportation Industry Intro
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner was exposed to Travel & Transportation Industry that covered topics such as Travel & Transportation Industry intro, industry profile, and the impact of technologies on the industry.
Innovator Badges
Web Application
Create Your Own Web Page
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as HTML, CSS, Node.js, how to develop a static web page locally, and using CLI to deploy it to IBM Cloud.
Create the Back-end for a Visitor Tracking App
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as cloud computing, cloud, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Hybrid Cloud, Private Cloud, data storage, and flexible infrastructure.
Create the Front-end for a Visitor Tracking App
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as Angular.js, Bootstrap, jQuery and how to create the front-end of a visitor tracking application on IBM Cloud.
Design Thinking
Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner
The earner has acquired knowledge of applying Enterprise Design Thinking and its value. As a Practitioner, the badge earner finds opportunities to try it out in their every day work.
Agile Intro
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as Agile Methodology, Agile Manifesto, Agile Frameworks, Agile Stand-ups, Agile Retrospective, and Agile Challenges.
Cloud
Getting Started with IBM Cloud V2
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as Cloud Foundry, Cloud-Native Applications, Containers, Container Orchestration, IBM Cloud, IBM Cloud CLI, IBM Cloud Paks, IBM Cloud Services, Kubernetes, Node.js, Red Hat OpenShift, and VMware.
Hybrid Cloud
Deploy a Sample App on Hybrid Cloud
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as Hybrid Cloud, Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, and Containers.
Managing and Operating Applications on Hybrid Cloud
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as Hybrid Cloud Architecture, IBM Cloud Satellite, Operators, OperatorHub, Operator Framework, and IBM Cloud Operator.
Logging and Monitoring Applications on Hybrid Cloud
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as logging and monitoring applications on Hybrid Cloud, Observability, Application Performance Management, and LogDNA & Sysdig services on IBM Cloud.
Securing your Applications on Hybrid Cloud
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as Hybrid Cloud Application Security, Microservice Security, IBM Cloud App ID, Java Spring Boot, and Open ID Connect.
Artificial Intelligence
Build your own chatbot
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as Design Thinking Basics, Watson Conversation Service, Creating Intents, Creating Entities, Building a Dialog, Watson Tone Analyzer, and Building a Chatbot.
Find Valuable Insights with IBM Watson
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as Watson Assistant, Watson Discovery, Watson Personality Insights, Watson Tone Analyzer and using Watson Personality Insights APIs to extract useful information from a pre-populated set of unstructured data.
Discover IBM Watson Services
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as Conversation, Discovery, Natural Language Understanding, Natural Language Classifier, Tone Analyzer, Speech to Text, Text to Speech, Personality Insights, Watson Machine Learning, and Watson Knowledge Studio.
Detect Fraud Using Visual Recognition
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as Watson Visual Recognition service, Visual Recognition Use-Cases, Creating a Visual Recognition Service, Creating a Watson Studio Service and Training a data classifier.
Blockchain
Build your Car Auction Application on Blockchain
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as how to create a blockchain application to conduct car auctions.
Build your Voting Application using Blockchain
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as how to create a blockchain application for voting.
Track Donations with Blockchain
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as setting up Hyperledger composer, creating the Model File, Script File and Access Control List File, creating the Network Cards and Submitting Transactions on the Blockchain network.
Internet of Things
Build Your First IoT Application V2
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as Node-RED, Internet of Things, REST API, IBM Cloud, Language Translator, Speech to Text, Text to Speech, and Watson Services Integration.
Build a Notification System for your IoT Application
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as connecting a simulated temperature sensor to Node-RED and receive its readings by SMS Notification through Twilio API.
Integrate Watson Assistant and Telegram using Node-RED
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as creating an IoT application using Node-RED and integrate Telegram Chatbot with Watson Assistant through Node-RED.
Create a Smart Home IoT Application
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as how to create a smart home application for detecting voltage anomalies in home appliances, with the help of Node-RED and Watson IoT Platform.
Data Science and Analytics
Predict Employee Turnover using IBM Watson Studio
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as IBM Watson Studio, IBM Watson Studio tools and how to create a quick prediction model for any type of dataset.
Identify Potential Repeat Customers for Your Business
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as how to use Data Refinery in IBM Watson Studio to draw meaningful conclusions from data sets by identifying repeat customers for any business.
Analyzing and Predicting Heart Failure on IBM Cloud
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as how to build and use a predictive machine learning model by implementing a potential health care use case and then integrating it with a web application.
APIs and Microservices
Develop a Push Notifications Application
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as the different kinds of APIs and their advantages to businesses, using the IBM Cloud Push Notifications API, deploying a Node.js Application to IBM Cloud, and sending Push Notifications through IBM Cloud.
Create a Microservice using IBM Cloud Functions
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as how to create an IBM Cloudant Database, create actions and sequences using IBM Cloud functions, create a REST API, and how to deploy a web application from GitHub.
Deploy a Microservices-Based Web Application
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as what is Docker and containers, what is Kubernetes, setting up a Kubernetes cluster, and how to create and push Docker images to your Kubernetes cluster.
Containers and Kubernetes
Deploy Your First Container
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as containers and how to use IBM Cloud to deploy Docker containers to a Kubernetes Cluster.
Build and Deploy a Movie Database Application Container
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as how to put a React.js application in a Docker container and how to deploy it to a Kubernetes Cluster on IBM Cloud.
Host Your Own WordPress Site on Kubernetes Cluster
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as how to set up a WordPress environment in a Kubernetes cluster to build their own website.
Cybersecurity
Identify and Investigate Cybersecurity Threats
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as cybersecurity, cybersecurity attacks, the future of cybersecurity jobs, Cognitive Security, IBM Immune System, IBM X-Force, and QRadar SIEM.
Protect Your Sensitive Data Against Threats
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as Data Security, Data Security Challenges, Data Privacy, Information Security, Sensitive Data Protection, The CIA triad, and IBM Security Guardium Data Protection for Databases.
Add Authentication to your Web Apps using IBM Cloud App ID
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as Authentication, Authorization, IBM Cloud App ID service, OAuth 2.0, and Authentication Code workflow.
DevOps
Deploy Your First App Using DevOps
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as DevOps approach, Continuous Delivery tools, Toolchains, Delivery Pipeline on IBM Cloud, and IBM Garage Methodology.
Monitor Your App Availability and Understand its Usage V2
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as Application Automated Monitoring, IBM Cloud Monitoring with Sysdig, and Google Analytics.
Continuously Deploy Your Angular Application
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as Angular applications, UrbanCode by IBM, DevOps insights service on IBM Cloud, the Delivery pipeline, custom toolchains and toolchain integrations, and Slack Integration.
New Collar Badges
Artificial Intelligence Analyst
Artificial Intelligence V2
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has completed the skill learning journey on topics such as what is Artificial Intelligence (AI), types of AI, applications of AI, Cognitive Computing, Machine Learning types and algorithms, Business Analytics, Natural Language Processing, and Computer Vision.
IBM Watson V3
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has completed the skill learning journey on topics such as what is IBM Watson, list Watson technologies and services, how Watson solves real time problems, Watson services in closed domains, and explore Watson services.
Natural Language Processing V3
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has completed the skill learning journey on topics such as defining what NLP is, NLP History, applications and use cases of NLP, relationship between AI and NLP, NLP tools and services, and NLP pipeline.
Chatbot V3
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has completed the skill learning journey on topics such as defining what a chatbot is, identify chatbot applications, chatbot design considerations, main components of chatbot, Watson Assistant components, and building a chatbot using IBM Watson Assistant.
Machine Learning V2
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has completed the skill learning journey on how to apply machine learning applications, algorithms, evaluation methods, and deep learning applications with Watson Machine Learning.
Watson Machine Learning V2.1
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has completed the skill learning journey on topics such as Cross-Industry Standard Process for Data Mining (CRISP-DM), data preparation, and developing deep learning applications and neural network modeling using IBM Watson Machine Learning.
Integration
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has completed the skill learning journey on how to integrate multiple Artificial Intelligence solutions with IBM Watson services such as Watson Assistant, Discovery, Natural Language Understanding, Tone Analyzer, and Watson Knowledge Studio.
Computer Vision V3
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has completed the skill learning journey on topics such as defining what Computer Vision is, Computer Vision tools and services, Computer Vision pipeline, Vision services on IBM Watson, and create a service and train it to identify images.
Web Application Developer
Web Development
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as types of web application, the technologies used, and the web application tools.
HTML & CSS
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as what is HTML and HTML5, how to build websites using HTML5, HTML5 elements, what is CSS, and format HTML elements using CSS3.
JavaScript
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as JavaScript fundamentals, JavaScript Syntax, types of variables and operators, arrays, conditional statements, functions, and for and while loops.
Java
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as Object- Oriented programming, the Java platform, Java syntax, strings and operators, conditional operators, controls statements, loops, and Java frameworks.
API
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as how to use APIs, design effective APIs, lifecycle of APIs, API economy, and the characterstics of REST APIs and JSON.
Web Services V2
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has completed the skill learning journey on topics such web services concepts, web services architecture, XML, HTTP, access authentication, SOAP, WSDL, JSON, and REST.
Git
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as Git concepts, using command-line, advantages of using GIT, installing and running GIT on you local computer.
Node.js V2
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as understanding the basics of Node.js, how to create a Node.js server, Node.js modules, Asynchronous I/O with callback, and developing a Node.js app.
Web Security
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as the importance of web security, types of web attacks, security vulnerabilities, injection attacks, SQL injection, cross-site scripting, security misconfiguration, and sensitive data exposure.
Express Web Framework V2
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has completed the skill learning journey on topics such as what is Express framework? Its difference from JavaScript, using Express as a third-party npm package, middleware functions, and creating an Express application.
React and ECMAScript
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has completed the skill learning journey on topics such as what is React? What is ECMAScript? Async patterns, building rich UI with React, and building a rich front-end application with React and ECMAScript.
Cloud Application Developer
Cloud Computing V2
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has completed the skill learning journey on topics such as what is cloud computing, cloud computing adoption, cloud applications, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, cloud architecture, and cloud services.
Cloud Foundry and Code Engine V3
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has completed the skill learning journey on topics such as what is Cloud Foundry, deploying Cloud Foundry apps, IBM Cloud Engine, deploying Node.js applications, and logging & debugging.
DevOps V3
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has completed the skill learning journey on topics such as what is DevOps? IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery, Git repos & issues tracking, source code management, automatic build & deployment, debugging, and IBM Cloud Garage method.
Cloud Database V2
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has completed the skill learning journey on topics such as the types of data services on the cloud, benefits of Cloudant databases, IBM Cloud Identity and Access Management, and HTTP APIs.
Containers & Kubernetes
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has completed the skill learning journey on topics such as containers, containerization, Docker, container orchestration, IBM Cloud, Kubernetes and Kubernetes Service.
Docker Essentials
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as what is Docker, how to create and run Docker containers, and how to run containers in production.
Cloud Applications
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has completed the skill learning journey on topics such as integrating services into your application, REST architecture, using REST with Watson APIs, solution architecture, enriching apps with services, and securing your applications with single sign-on.
Kubernetes
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has completed the skill learning journey on topics such as what is Kubernetes? What are Containers? How to develop containerized applications on Kubernetes, and IBM Cloud Kubernetes service.
Cloud Foundry V2
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has completed the skill learning journey on topics such as what is cloud foundry, create and manage an application on the cloud, create a Node.js application on the cloud, create cloud applications locally using CLI, and the role of Node.js for server-side scripting.
Hybrid Cloud Application Developer
Kubernetes Architecture Essentials
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has completed the skill learning journey on topics such as Kubernetes architecture, scheduler, persistent storage, routing, Kubernetes deployment workflow, Kubernetes networking, and how the components within Kubernetes interact with each other.
Hybrid Cloud Fundamentals
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has completed the skill learning journey on topics such as principles of Hybrid Cloud application development, microservices, modern software development practices, Hybrid Cloud architecture, and its components.
DevOps for Hybrid Cloud Apps
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has completed the skill learning journey on topics such as DevOps, its benefits, DevOps strategies, and how they are part of the continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) processes.
Blockchain Developer
Blockchain Fundamentals V2
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has completed the skill learning journey on topics such as what is Blockchain, Blockchain infrastructure and applications, Hyperledger Fabric, architecture, business network, and a blockchain application design and model.
Hyperledger Fabric Chaincode V2
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has completed the skill learning journey on topics such as what is chaincode, chaincode types, chaincode queries, how to develop smart contracts with Fabric, testing and debugging, and how to install and instantiate smart contracts on a development environment.
Hyperledger Fabric Security
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has completed the skill learning journey on topics such as identity and access control, certificate authority, how identity is generated in Hyperledger Fabric, importance of data privacy, public key infrastructure concepts, and encryptions.
Hyperledger Fabric Integration V2
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has completed the skill learning journey on topics such as Hyperledger Fabric SDK, application flow for smart contracts, wallets and identities, interacting with a contract, and developing applications with Fabric SDKs.
Hyperledger Composer Foundations
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as Hyperledger Composer toolset, Hyperledger Composer Playground, Business Network Concepts (assets, participants, transactions, and access control), and Business Logic.
Data Scientist
Data Science Fundamentals
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has completed the skill learning journey on topics such as what is Data Science? what is Big Data, types of data, Data Science tools, and the Data Science Life Cycle (CRISP-DM).
Data Understanding and Preparation
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has completed the skill learning journey on topics such as what is statistics, categorizing statistics, types of variables in statistics, presenting data graphically, what is probability, data understanding, and data preparation.
Cluster Analysis
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as key concepts of clustering (measuring similarity and choosing number of clusters), K – means clustering algorithm, hierarchical clustering, and applying clustering techniques on customer data.
Classification
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as types of supervised machine learning, classification algorithms, training and testing the classification models, and evaluating the performance of classification models.
Regression
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has completed the skill learning journey on topics such as linear regression, evaluation of linear regression models, root mean squared error, and using regression models to predict outcomes.
Communicating Insights
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has completed the skill learning journey on topics such as how to communicate analytics insights, storytelling using data, visualization techniques, and best practices.
Python
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as what is Python programming language? data types, variable assignment, arithmetic operations, conditional statements, logical operators, strong methods, collections and iteration, functions, classes, and files.
IoT Developer
IoT Fundamentals V2
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has completed the skill learning journey on what is Internet of Things, how IoT works, what are different IoT platforms, and how to create an IoT application using cloud.
IoT Network Protocols V2
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has completed the skill learning journey on topics such as IoT Applications, Node-RED flow-based programming, APIs, extending IoT app functions with Node-RED, and Watson IoT Network Protocols.
Edge Computing and AI
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has completed the skill learning journey on topics such as what is Edge Computing? How Artificial Intelligence works with IoT, AI services, and how to integrate IoT with AI services.
IoT Analytics V3
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has completed the skill learning journey on what is Analytics, what is IoT Analytics, analytics services on the cloud, IBM Cloudant, and IBM Analytics Engine.
IoT APIs V2
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has completed the skill learning journey on the definition and value of APIs, characteristics of REST APIs, JSON, and how to access Watson on IBM Cloud by using APIs.
Professional Skills
IBM New Collar Professional Skills
This badge earner has an understanding of key skills for professional success as well as core soft skills needed in the IT workforce. This knowledge of skills and behaviors includes: creating & delivering presentations; using the agile approach for working professionally to deliver quality work & experiences to clients; effectively collaborating with teams; effective impactful communications; dealing with challenges in a controlled & focused manner; and problem solving & solution implementation.
Project Management Fundamentals
Through self-paced learning, this badge earner has displayed an understanding of topics such as project management, project and team management, developing a project plan, project planning components, and closing a project.