This guide introduces a 10 week online data science course for complete beginners, offered by Bright Path Academy. It explains who the course is for and what participants will achieve by the end, such as cleaning a real dataset and presenting it with charts.
This is a course guide from Bright Path Academy for a 10 week online introductory data science program, designed for beginners with no coding experience. It outlines the target audience and the overall goal of moving from zero to presenting data-driven findings.
The guide lists the ten weekly topics, starting with thinking in questions and moving through spreadsheets to Python, cleaning messy data, averages and spread, and charts that tell the truth. Later weeks cover correlation versus causation, building a first model, testing it, a project week, and presenting findings.
It includes statistics on where graduates go after the course, such as 42% into analyst roles, 23% into further study, 21% applying new skills in the same job, 8% starting a business, and 6% other outcomes.
Practical advice for success is provided, like blocking three hours weekly, doing exercises, asking questions in the forum, and choosing a personally meaningful project topic. A graduate testimonial mentions building a dashboard used by a manager.
The guide concludes with a note that the next cohort starts soon, reiterating the 10 week duration and three hours per week commitment.