B.3 Our data

Data science uses and depends on data — and this course is no exception. Although the course materials are freely available, acquiring new knowledge and skills inevitably comes with costs. The main cost of this course is that you are willing to invest effort and time to read and practice.

Additionally, we kindly ask you to provide us with a little bit of data — by participating in an online survey that takes most people about 15 minutes to complete. This survey is meant to be fun and entertaining, but also has two serious goals:

1. We want to collect real data that we can use in our course materials.

2. We want to learn more about our audience, so that we design better examples and materials.

If you consider these goals desirable and useful, please take part in the following survey to provide us with some initial data to work with:

Our online survey

• Use this link to take part in an online survey.

Please note: The survey takes about 15 minutes to complete.

Thank you in advance for filling out this survey and allowing us to share your data! We will handle it with care and attempt to use it to create better educational materials.