Week 1 - Introduction

Slides

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• pdf

To do before class

As a way to wet your apetite about the content of the first class, I recommend you:

• Listen to this interview with Hilary Mason, Max Shron, and Alex Pentland about the power of data.

• Watch this video by Mike Flowers, Chief Analytics Officer, at the City of New York about how data is used to influence policy decisions.

Additional readings

The contents of this lecture are loosely based on, and explored into further detail, in the following three references :

• [Recommended] “Chapter 1: Introduction” (Schutt & O’Neil, 2013). Free sampler of the book containing the chapter available online (html, pdf).
• Excellent overview of Data Science (Donoho, 2017).
• A Geographic take on Data Science, proposing a new field (Singleton & Arribas-Bel, 2019).

References

1. Donoho, D. (2017). 50 years of data science. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 26(4), 745–766.
2. Schutt, R., & O’Neil, C. (2013). Doing data science: Straight talk from the frontline. “ O’Reilly Media, Inc.”
3. Singleton, A., & Arribas-Bel, D. (2019). Geographic Data Science. Geographical Analysis.