I Completed My First Week In Eastern University's Master's In Data Science DTSC550

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For my first course, I am taking DTSC 550 Introduction to Statistical Modeling. It’s the first course on utilizing the programming language R.

✍🏿 Here’s a description of the course:

Introduction to foundational concepts, theories, and techniques of statistical analysis for data science. Students will begin with descriptive statistics and probability, and advance through multiple and logistic regression. Students will also conduct analyses in R. This course is approachable for students with little statistical background and prepares them for DTSC 650: Data Analytics in R

The book we are using is free and located here. I’m not saying the book is bad because I’m only one chapter in, but it reads like someone is talking. It’s a little too wordy for me. 😴 I believe a lot can be cut out. Just give me the facts and move on. Lots of practice in the first chapter which I like. We are already digging into R.

💪🏿 This is what I accomplished my first week in the DTSC 550 course:

📘 Chapter 3 goes over:

how to install the two programs needed for R
addition, subtraction, division, multiplication, order of operations, etc. etc.
variables with numbers
store many numbers as a variable
variables with text
true and false
indexes

📺 Videos watched:

I watched a video on the Professor demonstrating how to use R Studio.
Basic terms video
The NBA Data Scientist - This video was inspirational as a woman!
The best stats you’ve ever seen | Hans Rosling - This one was really interesting and I enjoyed watching it. The speaker was very dynamic and not your typical, stereotypical scientist/engineer personality.
Demystifying Data Science | Mr.Asitang Mishra | TEDxOakLawn - The way the guy was saying algorithm confused me at first, but the topic was interesting.

👀 Read this article:

Aren’t We Data Science?

🧪 Labs

I completed my first lab using R and I liked it! Pretty simple lab utilizing variables, pi, circumference, Fibonacci numbers, rounding, mean, and sum features.

Also, I’m looking for an internship to get real world experience, so if you’re hiring, let me know elyse@data.gal! I want to move towards finance so quantitative research is what I’m targeting.

Stay tuned for week 2…

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