Data Science For All, Spring 2020

These are the course materials for Data Science For All, taught in Spring 2020 at Cornell University and cross-listed as CS 1380, ORIE 1380, and STSCI 1380. The instructors are Jeremy Entner and David Williamson.

Installation

• First, install Anaconda with Python 3.

• After that has completed, open a terminal. (On Mac, run the Terminal app. On Windows, press Win+R, type cmd, and press Enter.) Then type the following command:

  pip install datascience
  

• Download materials from the course website.

• Open Anaconda Navigator. Launch Jupyter Notebook. Navigate to the files you extracted, and open .ipynb notebook(s) in which you are interested. If you're new to Jupyter, you might find this tutorial to be helpful.

Acknowledgment

This course is based on Data 8, a course taught by Ani Adhikari and John DeNero at the University of California, Berkeley. They and their teaching assistants have developed many of the materials we are using in our own course. We are using those materials with their permission, which we gratefully acknowledge.