Introduction to Data Science

Materials for a 3-hour practical session introducing MSc students at the Institute for Transport Studies to data science.

This website provides a brief introduction to data science concepts with implementations in R and Python. It's designed for students who may not have used data science tools before.

Contents

• Prerequisites: Required software and setup
• AI Tools & Policy: Safe and effective use of AI (Microsoft 365 Copilot vs GitHub Copilot)
• Practical Exercises: Hands-on data science tasks
• Next Steps: Resources for continuing your learning journey

Viewing the Website

Visit the published website at: https://itsleeds.github.io/introds/

Local Development

To build this website locally:

quarto render

To preview while editing:

quarto preview

Publishing

The website is automatically published to GitHub Pages via GitHub Actions when changes are pushed to the main branch.

To manually publish:

quarto publish gh-pages

License

This work is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.