Foundations of Data Science

These lessons will help you get your feet in data science and give you tools to help you slice and dice your data into results.

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Material

Bash

These lessons focus on using the Command Line Interface (CLI) and Bash for processing data.

Lesson Slides Hands-on Recordings
Advanced CLI in Galaxy
CLI basics
CLI Educational Game - Bashcrawl

Python

These lessons focus on coding in Python

Lesson Slides Hands-on Recordings
Introduction to Python
Advanced Python
Plotting in Python

Python (Modular)

These lessons cover coding in Python except they attempt to be very modular, having few interdependencies, allowing you to re-arrange or insert them in your existing course curriculum as needed.

Lesson Slides Hands-on Recordings
Python - Math
Python - Functions
Python - Basic Types & Type Conversion
Python - Lists & Strings & Dictionaries
Python - Flow Control
Python - Loops
Python - Files & CSV
Python - Try & Except
Python - Introductory Graduation
Conda Environments For Software Development
Python - Argparse
Python - Testing
Python - Type annotations
Virtual Environments For Software Development
Python - Globbing
Python - Subprocess
Python - Coding Style
Python - Multiprocessing

R

These lessons focus on coding in R

Lesson Slides Hands-on Recordings
R basics in Galaxy
    • Advanced R in Galaxy
    R
    • dplyr & tidyverse for data processing

    SQL

    Here you'll learn to use SQL to query databases and extract meaningful results from them.

    Lesson Slides Hands-on Recordings
    Advanced SQL
    Introduction to SQL
    SQL Educational Game - Murder Mystery
    SQL with Python
    SQL with R

    Scientific Workflow Management Systems

    Here you can find brief tutorials on a couple different workflow engines that you might encounter in the wild.

    Lesson Slides Hands-on Recordings
    Make & Snakemake

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