Data Science 1: Introduction to Data Science

Harvard FAS

Data Science 1 is the first half of a one-year introduction to data science. The course focuses on the analysis of messy, real-life data to make predictions using statistical and machine learning methods. Material covered integrates the five key facets of an investigation using data: (1) data collection – data wrangling and cleaning to obtain a suitable dataset; (2) data management – accessing data quickly and reliably; (3) exploratory data analysis – generating hypotheses and building…