Course guide for BrightPath Academy's 10-week online beginner data science programme. Explains who the course is for, the weekly curriculum from thinking in questions to presenting findings, graduate career outcomes, and advice for success.
This is a course guide for BrightPath Academy's Intro to Data Science programme. It is designed for complete beginners who have never written code. The course runs for 10 weeks online, requiring three hours per week.
The guide lists the ten weekly topics. Week one covers thinking in questions. Weeks two and three move from spreadsheets to Python and cleaning messy data. Weeks four and five cover averages, spread, and truthful charts. Weeks six and seven address correlation versus causation and building a first model. Weeks eight to ten cover testing, a project week, and presenting findings.
Graduate outcomes are shown as percentages. 42 percent go into analyst roles. 23 percent pursue further study. 21 percent apply new skills in their current job. 8 percent start a business and 6 percent choose other paths.
The guide includes tips for success: blocking three hours weekly, doing exercises, asking in the forum, and picking a personally meaningful project topic. A graduate testimonial describes building a dashboard used by their manager.
The next cohort starts soon. The programme is 10 weeks with three hours per week commitment.