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Tuesday, May 1, 2018
Data Science Course For Everyone Now Online - Sue Gee, iProgrammer
Launched on campus in 2015 Foundations of Data Science is Berkeley's fastest growing program with more than 1,000 students enrolling every semester. Now it is available on edX as a Professional Certificate made up of three 5-week courses. Intended to help students from any major or any background to address questions that interest them, Foundations of Data Science is an introductory stats class taught in a modern hands on way that introduces Python and weaves in issues like data privacy and bias. It gives students a new lens through which to explore the issues and problems that you care about in the world. You will learn the core concepts of inference and computing, while working hands-on with real data including economic data, geographic data and social networks.
http://www.i-programmer.info/news/150-training-a-education/11692-data-science-course-for-everyone-now-online.html