Absolutely no worries! We think attending the live sessions is the best way to develop skills, but we understand that some schedules are more flexible than others. All live sessions will be recorded and posted.

By the end of this course, you'll have the hard skills to confidently navigate real-world data sets in Python and perform bread-and-butter analyses. This will be the necessary foundation for whatever data science skills you develop next.

We've designed the course to fit around busy schedules, while still covering a tremendous amount of material. Expect to put in ~3 hrs of focused work each day. It's a dense, transformative course, so you'll want to plan to have that time available for those 2 weeks. If you can do that, you will be ok!

We think folks with some analytics or data experience (using tools like Excel or Google Sheets) will likely get the most out of this class. We will also expect you to have a solid understanding of high school math. There is no coding experience necessary and no official pre-reqs though. Just come curious and excited to dive in.

Nothing beyond a basic personal laptop and an internet connection. All of our coding will be in web-based tools. If you can load this course page and join a Zoom, you're good to go!

If you already know Python, this isn't the course for you. If you do regex crosswords in your spare time or are comfortable with Pandas (the Python package, not the cute animals) then skip this class.

If you are not comfortable with middle school or high school math (calculating percent change, averages, etc.), then you might find this class hard.

Things come up. We'll give a full refund if you have to cancel within 72 hours of the start of the course. If you have to cancel within the 72 hours, you'll have the option to reschedule to a later cohort.

Please feel free to reach out to us directly with any questions! You can email us questions at: info@data2thepeople.org