Getting Started in Data Science
Your entry point into data science. In under three hours, set up a modern development environment with Positron IDE, manage Python with uv, author reproducible documents with Quarto, and begin working with real data using Polars.
What You'll Learn
- What is Data Science — distinguishing it from analytics and analysis (~20 min)
- Development environment — uv, Python, Positron IDE (~25 min)
- Quarto notebooks — reproducible literate programming (~20 min)
- Environment management — pyproject.toml, uv.lock (~15 min)
- Python essentials — data types, lists, tuples, functions (~50 min)
- Working with data — Polars load · filter · transform · aggregate (~30 min)