Data Science Prep Course

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Springboard

Mode

Online

Duration

6 Weeks

Fees

$ 490

Quick Facts

particular details
Medium of instructions English
Mode of learning Self study, Virtual Classroom
Mode of Delivery Text Based
Learning efforts 10-15 Hours Per Week

Course and certificate fees

Fees information
$ 490
certificate availability

No

The syllabus

Topic 1: Introduction to Data Science & Python

  • An introduction to the world of data science
  • Reasons why Python is such a popular programming language
  • Common Python terms
  • An introduction to the Next.Tech platform
  • Python syntax
  • Python control flows
  • Python lists
  • Python functions
  • An introduction to computational thinking
  • Data distributions
  • Displaying and describing quantitative data
  • Scatter Plots

Topic 2: Intermediate Python

  • Python dictionaries
  • Python strings
  • Part 2 of Python control flows
  • The difference between functions and methods
  • How to effectively interact with a program in Python 

Topic 3: Foundations of Probability

  • Calculating basic probabilities
  • Bayes’ Theorem
  • Conditional probability 

Topic 4: Python: Data Structures & Algorithms

  • Data structures, including stacks and queues
  • Search algorithms
  • Sort algorithms

Topic 5: Data Science Technical Skills Survey

  • Features 10 statistics multiple choice questions and 2 open-ended coding questions
  • You’ll be able to take the technical skills survey as many times as you like


Topic 6: Your Data Science Toolbox

  • Using Anaconda and Conda
  • Working with Git and GitHub
  • An introduction to Jupyter Notebooks
  • NumPy and Matplotlib
  • Data manipulation with Pandas

Topic 7: The Apps Project

  • Approaching a dataset with a business problem in mind
  • Using common data science tools (like Jupyter Notebooks and Matplotlib)
  • Downloading and transforming data for analysis
  • Exploring data through the use of plots and statistics
  • Data storytelling

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