2 The Course Material & Structure {-$course}

2.1 The Course Material

The course’s reference material is stored in a few places, depending on its purpose.

Material	Location
Syllabus	A public webpage page for the whole cohort (read-only)
Student contributions: list	Personal student webpages3
Student contributions: location	Public repositories on you personal GitHub account
Reading material	eBooks, eBooks, 1 for each main module
Communication	Slack Workspace
Data files	A GitHub Repo

2.2 The Course Structure

Having all software installed on your own computer, i.e. a local installation, is a great way to easily engage with the many moving parts of modern data science. Unfortunately, differences in the hardware and software among students in a course can result in many idicyncratic and difficult to solve installation issues. Fortunately, local installations are not necessary for this class.

We’ll use Docker containers, and online resources where necessary, so that each student uses the same avoid idiocyncreatic installation issues