Natalie Zubar successfully completed the online Introduction to Data Science course from Coursera with distinction on June 29, 2013. The course covered relational databases, MapReduce, NoSQL, statistical modeling, basic machine learning, visualization, and algorithmic topics critical to practical data science. The statement was signed by Bill Howe, Director of Research at the Scalable Data Analytics eScience Institute and Affiliate Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington.