Class Notes

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Recordings
A Glossary.
The course outline includes:
  1. Introduction to Data Science
    1. Overview of Data Science ✔
    2. Reproducible Research and the Need for Documentation ✔
    3. Planning a Data Science Project ✔
  2. Professional Data Science
    1. Roles in Data Science
    2. Ethical Involving Data
    3. Issues with Prediction and Fairness
  3. Introduction to Spreadsheet Software
    1. Cells, Data and Formulas ✔
    2. Built in Functions ✔
    3. Multi-sheet Workbooks ✔
  4. Identifying and Obtaining Data
    1. Sources for Data ✔
    2. Web Searching Strategies ✔
    3. Organizing Data on a Computer
    4. Importing Data
  5. Evaluating and Cleaning Data
    1. Transforming Data ✔
    2. Dealing with Missing Data ✔
  6. Analyzing Data
    1. Basic Statistical Functions ✔
    2. Sorting and Filtering Data ✔
    3. Introduction to Tables ✔
    4. Basic Pivot Tables ✔
  7. Visualizing Data
    1. Creating Graphs Using a Spreadsheet ✔
    2. Types of Graphs ✔
    3. Properly Documenting and Labeling Graphs ✔
  8. Presenting Results
    1. Formatting Written Reports ✔
    2. Tools for Documenting Sources and References ✔
    3. Presentation Software ✔
    4. Sharing Data Between Productivity Products ✔
  9. Other Tools in Data Science (optional)