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What is Data Science?

Instructors: Alex Aklson & Polong Lin

Course Link : What is Data Science?

Course Syllabus

Defining Data Science and What Data Scientists Do

• Defining Data Science
• What is Data Science?
• Fundamentals of Data Science
• The Many Paths to Data Science
• Advice for New Data Scientists
• Data Science: The Sexiest Job in the 21st Century

What Do Data Scientists Do?

• A day in the Life of a Data Scientist
• Old problems, new problems, Data Science solutions
• Data Science Topics and Algorithms
• What is the cloud?
• What Makes Someone a Data Scientist?

Data Science Topics

• Foundations of Big Data
• How Big Data is Driving Digital Transformation
• What is Hadoop?
• Data Science Skills & Big Data
• Data Scientists at New York University
• Data Mining
• Quiz: Data Mining

Deep Learning and Machine Learning

• What's the difference?
• Neural Networks and Deep Learning
• Applications of Machine Learning
• Regression
• Quiz: Regression

Data Science in Business

• Applications of Data Science
• How Data Science is Saving Lives
• How Should Companies Get Started in Data Science?
• Applications of Data Science
• The Final Deliverable
• Quiz: The Final Deliverable

Careers and Recruiting in Data Science

• How Can Someone Become a Data Scientist?
• Recruiting for Data Science
• Careers in Data Science
• High School Students and Data Science Careers

The Report Structure

• The Report Structure
• Quiz: The Report Structure
• Final Assignment