Into the Unknown
Building a Data Science TeamJohns Hopkins University This is a short but instructive course about how a data science team plays as a whole. A data science team appears similar to other kinds of research or development teams, after completing this course you definitely will notice it has its own peculiar characteristics. You probably will…
Data science is a team sport. D. J. Patil Team Sport The team includes data scientists, managers, data engineers who develop and perform the infrastructure, people have contact with outside, etc. The positions include: Data engineer Build and administrate databaseBuild production level algorithms, and implement them on serversHave skills in infrastructure development Data scientist Do…
A Crash Course in Data ScienceJohns Hopkins University As the pilot of the specialization “Executive Data Science”, this very short course provides a bird’s eye view of a few critical aspects for data science. The most impressive to me is the comparison between machine learning and traditional statistics. This is very interesting to realize there…
Data science is only useful when the data are used to answer a specific, concrete question that could be useful for your organization. Data science is the process of: There is actually data science learning from data, discovering what is the right prediction model is. And there is implementation lumped into data engineering to scale…
Introduction to Data Science in PythonUniversity of Michigan This is a nice course to get familiar with NumPy, Pandas, SciPy, etc. Lecture video is not difficult, but Programming Assignment is a little bit challenging and truly inspiring. My original code costs 10 minutes to manipulate a DataFrame with 10 thousand rows, but there is a…