Class: Practical Data Science

My most popular tutorial at Minerva is Practical Data Science.

This class focuses on developing skills rather than learning new topics. Students typically attack a data science challenge on Kaggle. Now, I think that knocking off Kaggle challenges isn’t actually a super important skill for a data scientist. But trying is a great way to learn why that is.

More important: it’s a real project. There’s real money on the line. It’s condescending to give students, especially seniors, a toy project.

My students never fail to impress, here’s a great example of the group project from last spring: Cactus Detection