LSE DS101A - Fundamentals of Data Science

Academic Year: 2023/24

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📟 Communication

Find out how to reach out to your peers, teaching, and administrative staff during this course.

Slack

Most of our “informal” communication and interactions will happen through Slack.
Slack is a platform used by many companies and institutions where teams can collaborate and communicate about a specific project.
There will be channels dedicated to discussing each week’s content, a channel for sharing useful links and events, plus a random channel to share random stuff about data science.

You will receive an invitation to join our Slack group via e-mail. Send an if you have not received an invite by the time of the first lecture.

Check out the following links to understand more about this tool:

🗨️ Office Hours

It is probably a good idea to book office hours if:
- you struggled with a technical or theoretical aspect of an activity or assignment in the previous week,
- you have queries about careers in data science,
- you want guidance in how to apply data science to other things you are studying outside this course.
Come prepared. You only have 15 minutes.
Ask for help sooner rather than later.
Book slots via StudentHub up to 12 hours in advance.

📧 E-mail

Help us reduce our e-mail footprint

Reserve 📧 e-mail for formal requests of extensions, deferrals, etc., or other essential matters. For example, there is no need to e-mail to inform you that you will skip a class.

Send an e-mail to 📧 if:

You need to inform us that you could not attend a class session because of an exceptional circumstance.

Send an e-mail to 📧 , our Teaching Administrator Support, if:

You need to request an extension on an assessment, either because you have learning adjustments in place or because of an exceptional circumstance.
You want to defer an assessment; that is, you will not be able to submit it.

Send an e-mail to 📧 if:

You have a personal issue affecting your ability to complete the course and would like to discuss your options.