ILKAY ALTINTAS: Hi.
I'm Ilkay Altintas, and I'm the Chief
Data Science Officer at the San Diego
Supercomputer Center.
LEO PORTER: I'm Leo Porter.
I'm an Assisting Teaching Professor in
the Computer Science and Engineering
Department here at UC San Diego.
ILKAY ALTINTAS: We are
pleased to introduce you
to the first course in UC San Diego's
State of Science MicroMasters.
Python for Data Science.
In this course, you'll be learning
the cutting-edge tools used
by data scientists around the world.
These tools include Python, NumPy,
Pandas, Jupyter Notebooks, Scikit-Learn
and a bunch more.
LEO PORTER: But you probably
didn't get interested in data
science just because you want to
learn a bunch of data analysis tools.
You probably became
interested in science
because you wanted to better
understand some aspect of the world
and you want to use data to do so.
That's why we won't be learning these
Python tools in isolation like you
might find other courses or textbooks.
For most topics, we'll have
you learning these tools
as part of exploring and
analyzing a real-world data set.
ILKAY ALTINTAS: Yep.
That means you'll be learning data
science by doing data science.
And doing data science is what
you are all excited about.
We are in this field because
we want to see how using data
can improve the actions
of emergency responders
or help us understand the impact of
human activities on the environment
or how we can personalize
services for our customers.
These are among many other studies.
LEO PORTER: To get
things started, you'll
learn about the process of conducting
data science and then dive right
into working with datasets
using Python tools.
As you progress, you'll also hear
from industry and academia experts
on how they use data
science in their careers.
We look forward to working
with you in the course.
So let's get started.
ILKAY ALTINTAS: Let's get started.
