Introduction To Data Science

AY2019/2020 Semester 2

This course will start with the core principles of Data Science, and will equip you with the basic tools and techniques of data handling, exploratory data analysis, data visualization, data-based inference, and data-focussed communication. The course will also introduce you to the fundamentals of Machine Learning - prediction, classification, clustering, anomaly detection - to set the computational framework for Data Science. The goal is to motivate you to work closely with data and make data-driven decisions in your field of study. The course will also touch upon ethical issues in Data Science and motivate you to explore the cutting-edge applications related to Big Data, Neural Networks and Deep Learning. Python will be the language of choice to introduce hands-on computational techniques.