In this course you will get an introduction to the main tools and ideas in the data scientist's toolbox. The course gives an overview of the data, questions, and tools that data analysts and data scientists work with. There are two components to this course. The first is a conceptual introduction to the ideas behind turning data into actionable knowledge. The second is a practical introduction to the tools that will be used in the program like version control, markdown, git, GitHub, R, and RStudio.
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Set up R, R-Studio, Github and other useful tools
Understand the data, problems, and tools that data analysts use
Explain essential study design concepts
Create a Github repository
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- Data Science
- Github
- R Programming
- Rstudio
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The mission of The Johns Hopkins University is to educate its students and cultivate their capacity for life-long learning, to foster independent and original research, and to bring the benefits of discovery to the world.
Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
5 hours to complete
Data Science Fundamentals
In this module, we'll introduce and define data science and data itself. We'll also go over some of the resources that data scientists use to get help when they're stuck.
5 hours to complete
5 videos (Total 40 min), 2 readings, 5 quizzes
5 hours to complete
R and RStudio
In this module, we'll help you get up and running with both R and RStudio. Along the way, you'll learn some basics about both and why data scientists use them.
5 hours to complete
5 videos (Total 34 min)
4 hours to complete
Version Control and GitHub
During this module, you'll learn about version control and why it's so important to data scientists. You'll also learn how to use Git and GitHub to manage version control in data science projects.
4 hours to complete
4 videos (Total 28 min)
5 hours to complete
R Markdown, Scientific Thinking, and Big Data
During this final module, you'll learn to use R Markdown and get an introduction to three concepts that are incredibly important to every successful data scientist: asking good questions, experimental design, and big data.
5 hours to complete
4 videos (Total 34 min)
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- 5 stars69.45%
- 4 stars23.26%
- 3 stars5.28%
- 2 stars1.08%
- 1 star0.91%
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TOP REVIEWS FROM THE DATA SCIENTIST’S TOOLBOX
by WCSep 25, 2017
I really don't know much about this stuff, I think the jury's still out on whether the last four weeks will be helpful in the future. We'll see how much I think I've learned at the end of the course
by ALMay 22, 2021
The course is great for beginners, especially with a focus on the fundamentals of data science and RStudio. It provides a great introduction to Git and Github, which makes it extremely informative.
by MTApr 11, 2020
It's a beginning to a host of different courses that are to be followed after this. It makes up a for a good platform to start off the work on R and how to use version control feature of R via GitHub.
by AMJul 21, 2017
Great Primer for what Data Science is about. It also provides the infrastructure of tools needed. This was what I was after, a way to provide other data scientist hardware and infrastructure support.
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