UBC's 1st undergraduate Data Science course! #184
Description
Hi all,
I am going to be teaching UBC's 1st undergraduate Data Science course, DSCI 100 - Introduction to Data Science. It will be offered in term 2 of 2018/2019 Academic year (Jan - Apr 2019). A working version of the course syllabus is available here: https://github.com/UBC-DSCI/dsci-100. Please note that there is no overlap (credit exclusion) with STAT 200.
Undergraduates on this list, please consider taking this course. Graduates and postdocs, please help spread the word about this new course to undergraduates that you know and who might benefit from it. Also, feel free to ask any questions to me about this course in this thread and I'll do my best to answer them. Better yet, come talk to me at one of our Thursday morning R Study groups (9am in Koerner Library, room 216)!!
Expanded course description:
In recent years, virtually all areas of inquiry have seen an uptake in the use of Data Science tools. Skills in the areas of assembling, analyzing, and interpreting data are more critical than ever. This course is designed as a first experience in honing such skills. Students who have completed this course will be able to implement a Data Science workflow in the R programming language, by “scraping” (downloading) data from the internet, “wrangling” (managing) the data intelligently, and creating tables and/or figures that convey a justifiable story based on the data. They will be adept at using tools for finding patterns in data and making predictions about future data. There will be an emphasis on intelligent and reproducible workflow, and clear communications of findings.