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2. Pre-Hackathon: What is Data Science?

The role of data science is to summarize raw data into key points of information. Data science helps us make decisions and also saves us time - there can be millions of data points in a raw data set. It would take a long time to analyze raw data without data science skills!

1A data science example

2Let's wrangle weather data!

3Settling the argument

4But what about rain?

5Pre-Hackathon checklist

About this course

This site includes tools and resources to help you participate in a Callysto hackathon. Callysto is a free, online learning tool that helps students and teachers learn and apply in-demand data science skills including data analysis, visualization, coding, and computational thinking. The online tool’s interactive learning modules are available in a variety of subjects – from math to history – and are aligned with existing curriculum.

About us

The Callysto program is facilitated by the non-profit organizations Cybera and the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences. It is funded under the national CanCode program.