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
- Video 1 (2025): Welcome, Overview, Motivating Examples; also Video 1 (2025), captioned; also see Video 1 (2024) from 5m20s to 22m40 for motivating example
- Video 2 (2025): RStudio and GitHub; also Lecture 2 (2025), captioned
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