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title: Tools in Data Science course is free for all
date: "2025-05-01T13:28:34Z"
lastmod: "2025-05-01T13:28:35Z"
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  - education
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description: "The Tools in Data Science course is now openly auditable, offering a rigorous, tool-heavy, AI-aware curriculum that mirrors real-world data work more than traditional classroom theory."
keywords: [Tools in Data Science, open course, IIT Madras, data tools, LLMs, curriculum]
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My [Tools in Data Science course](https://study.iitm.ac.in/ds/course_pages/BSSE2002.html) is now open for anyone to audit.

It's part of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras [BS in Data Science](https://study.iitm.ac.in/ds/) 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](https://exam.sanand.workers.dev/tds-2025-05-ga1) to decide if you should take the course.

Course: <https://tds.s-anand.net/>\
Code: <https://github.com/sanand0/tools-in-data-science-public/>

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