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Making predictions is not enough! Effective data scientists know how to explain and interpret their results, and communicate findings accurately to stakeholders to inform business decisions. Visualization is the field of research in computer science that studies effective communication of quantitative results by linking perception, cognition, and algorithms to exploit the enormous bandwidth of the human visual cortex. In this course you will learn to recognize, design, and use effective visualizations.
Just because you can make a prediction and convince others to act on it doesn’t mean you should. In this course you will explore the ethical considerations around big data and how these considerations are beginning to influence policy and practice. You will learn the foundational limitations of using technology to protect privacy and the codes of conduct emerging to guide the behavior of data scientists. You will also learn the importance of reproducibility in data science and how the commercial cloud can help support reproducible research even for experiments involving massive datasets, complex computational infrastructures, or both.
Learning Goals: After completing this course, you will be able to:
1. Design and critique visualizations
2. Explain the state-of-the-art in privacy, ethics, governance around big data and data science
3. Use cloud computing to analyze large datasets in a reproducible way.
Este curso forma parte de Programa Especializado - Data Science at Scale
Communicating Data Science Results
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Programa - Qué aprenderás en este curso
Semana
1Visualization
Statistical inferences from large, heterogeneous, and noisy datasets are useless if you can't communicate them to your colleagues, your customers, your management and other stakeholders. Learn the fundamental concepts behind information visualization, an increasingly critical field of research and increasingly important skillset for data scientists. This module is taught by Cecilia Aragon, faculty in the Human Centered Design and Engineering Department.
14 videos (Total 49 min), 1 quiz
14 videos
02 Introduction: Motivating Examples3m
03 Data Types: Definitions3m
04 Mapping Data Types to Visual Attributes3m
05 Data Types Exercise2m
06 Data Types and Visual Mappings Exercises4m
07 Data Dimensions3m
08 Effective Visual Encoding3m
09 Effective Visual Encoding Exercise2m
10 Design Criteria for Visual Encoding2m
11 The Eye is not a Camera4m
12 Preattentive Processing4m
13 Estimating Magnitude3m
14 Evaluating Visualizations3m
Semana
2Privacy and Ethics
Big Data has become closely linked to issues of privacy and ethics: As the limits on what we *can* do with data continue to evaporate, the question of what we *should* do with data becomes paramount. Motivated in the context of case studies, you will learn the core principles of codes of conduct for data science and statistical analysis. You will learn the limits of current theory on protecting privacy while still permitting useful statistical analysis.
14 videos (Total 85 min)
14 videos
Barrow Study Problems4m
Reifying Ethics: Codes of Conduct6m
ASA Code of Conduct: Responsibilities to Stakeholders4m
Other Codes of Conduct6m
Examples of Codified Rules: HIPAA3m
Privacy Guarantees: First Attempts6m
Examples of Privacy Leaks6m
Formalizing the Privacy Problem7m
Differential Privacy Defined9m
Global Sensitivity5m
Laplacian Noise4m
Adding Laplacian Noise and Proving Differential Privacy5m
Weaknesses of Differential Privacy7m
Semana
3Reproducibility and Cloud Computing
Science is facing a credibility crisis due to unreliable reproducibility, and as research becomes increasingly computational, the problem seems to be paradoxically getting worse. But reproducibility is not just for academics: Data scientists who cannot share, explain, and defend their methods for others to build on are dangerous. In this module, you will explore the importance of reproducible research and how cloud computing is offering new mechanisms for sharing code, data, environments, and even costs that are critical for practical reproducibility.
17 videos (Total 71 min), 2 quizzes
17 videos
Reproducibility Gold Standard5m
Anecdote: The Ocean Appliance4m
Code + Data + Environment3m
Cloud Computing Introduction2m
Cloud Computing History5m
Code + Data + Environment + Platform3m
Cloud Computing for Reproducible Research3m
Advantages of Virtualization for Reproducibility5m
Complex Virtualization Scenarios3m
Shared Laboratories3m
Economies of Scale4m
Provisioning for Peak Load2m
Elasticity and Price Reductions5m
Server Costs vs. Power Costs2m
Reproducibility for Big Data5m
Counter-Arguments and Summary4m
1 ejercicios de práctica
AWS Credit Opt-in Consent Form2m
Instructores
Bill Howe
Director of ResearchScalable Data Analytics
Acerca de University of Washington
Founded in 1861, the University of Washington is one of the oldest state-supported institutions of higher education on the West Coast and is one of the preeminent research universities in the world.
Acerca del programa especializado Data Science at Scale
Learn scalable data management, evaluate big data technologies, and design effective visualizations.
This Specialization covers intermediate topics in data science. You will gain hands-on experience with scalable SQL and NoSQL data management solutions, data mining algorithms, and practical statistical and machine learning concepts. You will also learn to visualize data and communicate results, and you’ll explore legal and ethical issues that arise in working with big data. In the final Capstone Project, developed in partnership with the digital internship platform Coursolve, you’ll apply your new skills to a real-world data science project.
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