My Tools in Data Science course is now open for anyone to audit.
It’s part of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras BS in Data Science online program. Here are some of the topics it covers in ~10 weeks:
Development Tools: uv, git, bash, llm, sqlite, spreadsheets, AI code editors
Deployment Tools: Colab, Codespaces, Docker, Vercel, ngrok, FastAPI, Ollama
LLMs: prompt engineering, RAG, embeddings, topic modeling, multi-modal, real-time, evals, self-hosting
Data Sourcing: Scraping websites and PDF with spreadsheets, Python, JavaScript and LLMs
Data Preparation: Transforming data, images and audio with spreadsheets, bash, OpenRefine, Python, and LLMs
Data Analysis: Statistical, geospatial, and network analysis with spreadsheets, Python, SQL, and LLMs
Data Visualization: Data visualization and storytelling with spreadsheets, slides, notebooks, code, and LLMs
It includes 2 projects, 7 graded assignments, and a remote online exam.
It’s a fairly tough course. Solve the first assignment to decide if you should take the course.
Course: https://tds.s-anand.net/
Code: https://github.com/sanand0/tools-in-data-science-public/