🖥️ Week 01 Lecture

From Data to Insight: The Importance of Clean Data

📍 Logistics

Time and Location: Friday, 2 October 2025, 16:00 - 18:00, CLM 5.02

This is our first live session together. By now, you should have engaged with the 📝 Week 01 Practice and joined Slack before the session.

📋 Preparation

• Take a look at the 📔 Syllabus
• Complete the 📝 W01 Practice

🗣️ Lecture Overview

• The data science workflow: the big picture and why it matters
• Why tabular data is fundamental for analysis
• A hook to set up the second hour
• After the break: platforms and interfaces (Nuvolos, VS Code, notebooks)
• Share your examples via Slack for live commentary

🎬 Lecture Slides

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The Data Science Workflow: For a complete explanation of what happens at each stage of the data science workflow presented in the lecture, visit the 3️⃣ Data Science Workflow guide.

This reference will be useful throughout the course whenever you need to orient yourself within a project or understand what you should be producing at each stage.

🔖 Appendix

Post‑Lecture Actions

• Review today’s lecture slides
• Skim the 💻 W01 Lab instructions
• Post questions in #help on Slack

Useful Links

• Nuvolos - First Time
• Using Nuvolos
• 📝 W01 Practice
• 📔 Syllabus

Looking Ahead

• Next week: the foundations of Python for data science