Data Science Course IFT6758

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Course Description

Welcome to Data Science IFT6758 Graduate level course on introduction to data science. The course focuses on the analysis of messy, real life data to perform predictions using statistical and machine learning methods.

The material of the course will integrate the five key facets of an investigation using data:

In this course, we focus on statistical methods and introduce techniques in different domains to make you familiar with various type of data. Our goal is to educate you to become not only knowledgable but also responsible data scientist by the end of this course!

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Basic knowledge of statistics, and Python programming is encouraged.

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Your final score for the course will be computed using the following weights:

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