NPA Introduction to Data Science

Course description

This course, gives you an introduction to Data science, during the course, you will gather data and analyse datasets as well as learn to create visualisations of the results and present your findings, and report on what you have found and how it can make a difference to you or others.

You will develop an understanding of how data is used in society.  You  will interpret data in different formats to find out interesting things from it, investigate the reason for unusual results or trends, and think about the impact or behaviour change that will result from the analysis. You will investigate how data can have both a positive and negative effect on society, such as when biased data is used in decision making or when data is misrepresented to influence people.

All the skills you need to understand the role of a data analyst.

What you will learn

• Data gathering
• Data clensing
• Data analysis
• Visualisation
• Insights and findings
• Ethics and bias of data

Learning outcome

• NPA Data Science with Python and R

Any other courses in the college and computing, depending on your other qualifacations. We welcome applications to

• NPA Digital Media for Comping
• NPA Access to Cyer Securty Software and Web

• Progress through other data courses and on to a degree