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Prerequisites:
Minimal experience with coding.

What to Bring:
Please bring your laptop.
Attendees will get the most out of the workshop if they have access to Mathematica and Wolfram Cloud. Please download prior to the workshop. A free trial version of Mathematica is available here: https://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/trial/ To access Wolfram Cloud, please follow this link, select "Wolfram Programming Cloud" and create an account: http://www.wolframcloud.com/

Today, far more data is being generated than is ever properly analyzed. Making data easier to analyze will benefit everyone, from the corner ice-cream store and budding student to Walmart and the World Bank. Unfortunately, today's tools make data science the province of a small group of experts, limiting the potential impact of all this new data. In this workshop, we will walk you through the basic steps of data science work, and show you how next-generation tools can remove much of the complex drudgery that limit data science to a privileged few. The workshop will be interactive: all participants will start with a browser and end with a multiple data science applications in the cloud. We'll wrap up by discussing the future of data science.

During this workshop you will:
- Get an overview of what data science is
- Get practical experience with data science techniques
- See how the next generation data science tools can unlock powerful, automated data science workflows

This two and a half hour long workshop will go as follows: The first 45 minutes will be an overview and discussion session, followed by a 15 minute break. We will then break into groups for a hands-on session of 1h15. The last 15 minutes will be a wrap-up discussion.