Intro to Data Science

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Free Online Course: Intro to Data Science provided by Udacity is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 8 weeks long. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Intro to Data Science is taught by Dave Holtz.

Overview
  • The Introduction to Data Science class will survey the foundational topics in data science, namely:

    • Data Manipulation
    • Data Analysis with Statistics and Machine Learning
    • Data Communication with Information Visualization
    • Data at Scale -- Working with Big Data

    The class will focus on breadth and present the topics briefly instead of focusing on a single topic in depth. This will give you the opportunity to sample and apply the basic techniques of data science.

    This course is also a part of our Data Analyst Nanodegree.

Syllabus
    • Introduction to Data Science
      • Pi-Chaun (Data Scientist @ Google): What is Data Science?,Gabor (Data Scientist @ Twitter): What is Data Science?,Problems solved by data science.
    • Data Wrangling
      • What is Data Wrangling?,Acquiring data.,Common data formats.
    • Data Analysis
      • Statistical rigor.,Kurt (Data Scientist @ Twitter) - Why is Stats Useful?,Introduction to normal distribution.
    • Data Visualization
      • Effective information visualization.,An analysis of Napoleon's invasion of Russia!,Don (Principal Data Scientist @ AT&T): Communicating Findings.
    • MapReduce
      • Introduction to Big Data and MapReduce.,Learn the basics of MapReduce.,Mapper.