1 - Introduction :: Data Science Programming Methods :: Spring 2024

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1 - Introduction

Objectives

Course Overview and Welcome
Motivation
Tools

Topics

Why Data Science? Why Programming?
Motivating Example
Tools we use: R, RStudio, GitHub
Setup Steps to take

Core Material

This introductory block covers two lectures (rather than four) and offers a general overview and introduction.

Lecture Slides

Lecture Videos

Extras

Small examples/ directory on box.com and as a downloadable tar.gz
Example data archive downloadable as tar.gz

Supplementary Material (not required, but helpful)

Short motivational ‘Data Science’ video

Short BBC video about Hans Rosling at YouTube and 200 years that changed the world at gapminder.org with link to same short video