Data Science Courses for Working Professionals, Faculty, and Students
Data Matters™ is a week-long series of one and two-day courses aimed at students and professionals in business, research, and government. The short course series is sponsored by the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at UNC-Chapel Hill, the National Consortium for Data Science, and RENCI.
Held virtually via Zoom, Data Matters gives students the chance to learn about a wide range of topics in data science, analytics, visualization, curation, and more from expert instructors.
Courses
- Basics of R for Data Science and Statistics
- Introduction to Programming in R
- Introduction to Python
- Introduction to Big Data & Machine Learning for Survey Researchers & Social Scientists
- Visualization in Data Science Using R
- Advanced Visualization in R: R Shiny
- Exploratory Data Analysis Using R Markdown
- Intermediate Python
- Introduction to Geospatial Data for the Data Scientist
- Overview to AI and Deep Learning
- Basic Statistics in R
- Deep Learning with Python
- Geospatial Analytics
- Introduction to Effective Information Visualization
- Statistical Machine Learning Using R
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