SCDS Course Materials

School of Data Science and Computing at AUB

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This site hosts lecture materials for the School of Data Science and Computing (SCDS) at the American University of Beirut. Our courses combine computational thinking with real-world data from diverse disciplines.

"Data science is the practice of building stable action-perception cycles with what is given."

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GitHub - Source code and notebooks

Course Modules

Introduction to Data Science covers:

Vision

How machines see: pixels, features, CNNs, and modern vision AI

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Language

NLP, tokenization, embeddings, transformers

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Time Series

Forecasting, temporal patterns, sensor data

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Networks

Graph analysis, social networks, communities

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Content Pipeline

Each lecture follows this workflow:

Transcript - Voice notes or written outline
Notebook - Interactive Jupyter notebook with code
Markdown - Web-ready formatted content
Website - Published here for students