Foundational Courses: TAMIDS “Foundations in Computational Data Science” and “Data Stewardship” credentialing programs are a great starting point to build on with Professional Education offerings. These courses are offered at low/no cost to TAMU students and a small program fee for Industry learners. These programs lay the foundation with the ability for your expertise to build targeted courses in addition to these foundations. If interested in adding a complementary course to these programs please contact Dr. Nick Duffield at duffieldng@tamu.edu.
Custom Professional Education: TAMIDS believes in creatively enriching professionals in Industry by collaborating with faculty subject matter expert partners to build custom professional education programs/events. If you are interested in creating an event for your professional audience, please contact Dr. Nick Duffield at duffieldng@tamu.edu.
Professional Education Workshops in Data Science Foundations and Computational Practice
The Texas A&M Institute of Data Science (TAMIDS) workshop on Data Science Foundations and Computational Practice is a week-long intensive workshop that equips participants with diverse skills to enable their professional practice of data science.
Target Audience: organizations seeking to help their workforce develop knowledge and experience applying computational methods of data science.
Format: a sequence of ten interactive, three-hour modules that integrate methodological exposition with application to data through hands-on programming and computation. Participants will use open source tools and libraries to develop proficiency and understanding of the essential methods of current data science and state-of-the-art topics.
Delivery: the workshop may be delivered remotely in synchronous, asynchronous, mixed modes, or on-site.
Prerequisites: familiarity with Linux or similar operating-system environments, experience with Python or similar programming language, introductory experience with data analysis and statistics.
Instructors: Texas A&M faculty experts deliver the program modules, which were developed and field-tested in data science webinars, boot camps, and tutorials.
Customization: TAMIDS may work by arrangement with other organizations to develop domain-application content for customized workshop events.
Learning Outcomes
Upon the completion of the course, each participant should be able to:
- Create and manage an open source software environment for data science projects.
- Use open source tools to read, update, and write JSON, CSV, XML, and other structured data formats.
- Apply NumPy and SciPy packages for numerical and statistical computation on data.
- Gain insight into data through analysis and visualization using pandas and matplotlib open source libraries.
- Apply common supervised and unsupervised machine learning methods; identify pitfalls such as over-fitting.
- Design and develop non-trivial programs for data science in Python using libraries and frameworks for machine learning and distributed computation, including scikit-learn and Spark.
- Use reinforcement learning to optimize control of artificial intelligence systems in the absence of a specific reward model.
- Model complex and high-dimensional data by learning latent low-dimensional representations.
- Integrate deep-learning frameworks such as TensorFlow and PyTorch into data analytics workflows.
- Develop models and perform feature selection using automated machine learning.
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For more information, please reach out to Dr. Nick Duffield at duffieldng@tamu.edu