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Master's in Data Science

Linear algebra, statistics, Python and machine learning foundations for complete beginners.

697 pages 420 min read12 modules

Chapter 1

What Is Data Science?

Start by throwing out the image the phrase probably conjures: someone alone at a laptop, staring at columns of numbers. Data science is not a tool, a job title, or a piece of software — it is a way of turning raw, messy, real-world data into decisions that…

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