Course: Getting Started with Teaching Data Science in Schools

In this video interview, Jeremy talks with Dr Rachel Menzies from the University of Dundee. They discuss three recommendations for further reading about data visualization. Each of the books recommended …

Once a data science investigation is complete, it’s time to get out there and publicize the findings. There are lots of different ways to do this, some of which might …

Data comes in different shapes and sizes. We use data types to represent different values in computer code. Regular types include integer for whole numbers, floating-point for non-whole numbers, boolean …

Now you have performed your data investigation and found out answers to your research questions. Can you present these answers in an accessible, understandable way? You might want to use …

There are plenty of valuable online resources for you to enhance your data science skills. You might consider further online courses or other learning opportunities. It might be helpful for …

To provide a little bit of scaffolding, we will work through an example data investigation in this article. If you go through similar steps with your data set (or you …

Now it’s your turn to select an interesting data set and ask some relevant research questions. In this step, you want to: identify your data set save a local copy …

Data science is covered in parts of the school curriculum in the UK, but it is generally scattered across several subjects. Basic statistics is covered as part of the Maths …

There is a massive range of visualization techniques. Information visualization is a complete academic field in itself. In this short course, we will introduce a few straightforward visualization techniques and …

It is natural to look for relationships and patterns to emerge from a data set. While there are formal, statistical tests and machine learning techniques to establish such relationships, we …

Now it’s time to plan your own data science investigation. There are several stages you need to go through. identify and obtain an interesting data set define a sensible research …

Individual data values, or elements, are organized into tables to describe larger sets of data. A table might be represented as a spreadsheet, which is often saved as a CSV …

Data science is very much a practical, experience-based activity. Throughout this course, we want to give you the opportunity to experiment with data, using the popular Python programming language. We …

Data is the new gold is a common saying. People recognise data as a resource that can be exploited. There is value in data. For instance, the Data Lab estimates …

A wide variety of different data visualizations is possible. In this video we explore three more exotic graphical data presentations. Jeremy shows a word cloud, which is a graphical summary …