Data science is the "sexiest job of the 21st century." In this insightful and concise course, you'll learn the important elements of data science. You'll be introduced to the principles, practices, and tools that make data science the powerful medium for critical insight in business and research. You'll have a solid foundation for future learning and applications in your work. With data science, you can do what you want to do, and do it better.

COURSE INFORMATION
  • Introductory level
  • 22 streaming video tutorials
  • 1 hour 40 minutes of instruction
  • Downloadable keypoints PDFs (available soon)
  • Downloadable workbook PDFs (available soon)
  • Created by Barton Poulson, PhD

COURSE BUNDLES

This course is the first installment in the course bundle Foundations of Data Science.

Course Curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction

    • Welcome
  • 2

    Defining Data Science

    • Demand for data science

    • The data science Venn diagram

    • The data science pathway

    • Roles in data science

    • Teams in data science
  • 3

    Contrasts

    • Big data

    • Coding

    • Statistics

    • Business intelligence
  • 4

    Ethical Issues

    • Do no harm
  • 5

    Methods

    • Methods overview

    • Sourcing overview

    • Coding overview

    • Math overview

    • Statistics overview

    • Machine learning overview
  • 6

    Communicating

    • Interpretability

    • Actionable insights

    • Presentation graphics

    • Reproducible research
  • 7

    Conclusion

    • Next steps

About the instructor

Founder

Barton Poulson

Bart is the founder of datalab.cc and an advocate for data science and data literacy. He has taught people to work with data for over twenty years as a university professor, online instructor, consultant, collaborator, and author. Bart lives with his family in Salt Lake City.

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I found this course to be informative and easy to comprehend. I think that the instructor is very knowledgeable and I'm excited to jump into the other course...

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