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BeginnerDS106

AI-Assisted Data Science

A beginner course on doing data work with AI coding tools and coding agents. You'll learn to delegate an analysis with a precise task spec and project instruction file, review both the code an agent writes and the run log of what it did, catch the silent failures in AI-generated pipelines (including the workarounds agents use to get past their own errors), decide what data and permissions an agent may have, and take professional responsibility for the result.

Lessons are AI-assisted and human-reviewed. Learn more.

Syllabus

Working with AI Tools

01
Delegating Data Work to AI Coding AgentsFree preview
20 min
02
Prompt Engineering for Data Tasks
25 min
03
Evaluating AI-Generated Data Code — The Review Protocol
30 min

Reliability and Responsibility

04
Silent Failure Patterns in AI-Generated Pipelines
35 min
05
Professional Responsibility and Human Oversight
22 min
06
Capstone: Auditing an Agent-Produced Analysis
50 min