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What Is Data Science Specialization, and What Can It Do for You?

What should an employer look for when they see a certification on a résumé?

For our program, and likely data science in general, they should look at the applicant’s GitHub page. They should see interesting project and code contributions.

Questions from last lecture

• Instll Git client on Windows. Git for Windows may be preferrable than GitHub Desktop for Windows.

http://happygitwithr.com/install-git.html#install-git-windows

• New RStudio Project via git clone.

http://happygitwithr.com/new-github-first.html#new-github-first

• SSH and HTTPS authentication.

http://happygitwithr.com/credential-caching.html

Grading of HW

Correctness of solution only accounts for about 50% of the score. Quality of report, usage of Git, reproducibility, and code style are also important. Style rules 3, 4, 5 will be strictly enforced.

Today

• R markdown.

• Data visualization with ggplot2.