This guide introduces a 10 week online data science course for beginners with no coding experience. It outlines the weekly topics, from asking questions to presenting findings, and includes graduate outcomes and success tips.
This is a course guide for a 10 week online introductory data science program at Bright Path Academy, designed for complete beginners who have never written code. It explains that by the end, students will clean a real dataset, find a story in it, and present it with clear charts.
The guide lists the ten weekly topics in order: thinking in questions, spreadsheets to Python, cleaning messy data, averages and spread, charts that tell the truth, correlation not causation, your first model, testing what you built, project week, and presenting findings.
It reports where graduates go after the course: 42% become analysts, 23% pursue further study, 21% apply new skills in their current job, 8% start a business, and 6% do something else.
The guide offers practical advice for success, such as blocking three hours a week, doing exercises even when videos make sense, asking questions in the forum, and choosing a project topic you care about. It also includes a testimonial from a graduate who built a dashboard used by their manager.