LSE DS105M (2022/23)

Data for Data Science

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πŸ“‘ Course Brief

Focus: learn how to collect and handle so-called β€œreal data”

How: hands-on coding exercises and a group project

🎯 Learning Objectives

  • Understand the basic structure of data types and common data formats
  • Show familiarity with international standards for common data types
  • Manage a typical data acquisition, cleaning, structuring, and analysis workflow using practical examples
  • Clean data, and diagnose common problems involved in data corruption and how to fix them
  • Understand the concept and fundamentals of databases
  • Link data from different sources
  • Use the collaboration and version control system GitHub, based on the git version control system.
  • Markup Language (XML), and the Markdown format for formatting documents and web pages.
  • Create and maintain simple websites using HTML and CSS
  • Use APIs to send and retrieve data from Internet sources

πŸ§‘πŸ»β€πŸ« Our Team

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Dr. Jonathan Cardoso-Silva
Assistant Professorial Lecturer
LSE Data Science Institute
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Office Hours:

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Anton Boichenko
Guest Teacher at the LSE Data Science Institute
Product Developer at Decoded
MSc in Applied Social Data Science (LSE)

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Amara Otero Salgado
BSc in Politics Data Science
Course Representative for DS105M

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Nathaniel Ocquaye
Teaching Support and Events Officer
Office: PEL 9.01
Email:

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Jill Beattie
Institute Coordinator
Office: PEL 9.01E
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7955 7759
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πŸ“ Lecture

Tuesdays 4pm-6pm at PAR.LG.03 (πŸ—ΊοΈ campus map), except Week 06 (Reading Week)

Class Groups

Group 01

  • πŸ“† Fridays
  • ⌚ 9:00 - 10:30am
  • πŸ“ 32L.G.06
  • πŸ§‘β€πŸ« Anton

Group 02

  • πŸ“† Fridays
  • ⌚ 12:00 - 1:30pm
  • πŸ“ NAB.LG.03
  • πŸ§‘β€πŸ« Anton

Group 03

  • πŸ“† Fridays
  • ⌚ 16:00 - 17:30
  • πŸ“ KSW.1.02
  • πŸ§‘β€πŸ« Anton