Get to know the exciting world of data science in this beginner-friendly course.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Beginning your data science exploration
- Demystifying data science
- The value of data science
- Defining the data science life cycle
- Reducing bias with probability sampling
- Using non-probability sampling
- Comparing Python and R
- Setting up your Jupyter environment
- Defining tabular data
- Reading tabular data
- Interpreting tabular data
- Gathering insights
- Answering specific questions
- Defining exploratory data analysis
- Recognizing statistical data types
- Distinguishing properties of data
- Explaining data cleaning
- Questions to guide data cleaning
- Demystifying data visualization
- Visualizing your qualitative data
- Visualizing your quantitative data
- Defining inference
- Designing a hypothesis test
- Creating a permutation
- Conducting a permutation test
- Bootstrapping a confidence interval
- Defining prediction for data science
- Navigating classification
- Recognizing the k-NN algorithm
- Implementing k-Nearest Neighbors
- Navigating regression
- Checking assumptions of regression
- Implementing linear regression
- Next steps
Taught by
Lavanya Vijayan and Madecraft