Basics of Data Science

Author

Affiliation

Peter Kandolf

MCI | The Entrepreneurial School

Preface

These are the lecture notes for the Grundlagen der Datenbasierten Methoden class, part of the MCI | The Entrepreneurial School master for Mechatronik - Automation, Robotics & AI in the winter term 2025/26. This is a revised version of the previous year, checkout previous version via the appropriate tag or get the pdf from the releases.

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Acknowledgements

We want to thank the open-source community for providing excellent tutorials and guides on Data Science topics using Python. Individual sources are cited at the appropriate spot throughout the document at hand.

We want to thank Mirjam Ziselsberger and Matthias Panny for testing, checking, suggestions and general proofreading.

Furthermore, the students of the class in the winter term 2024/25 helped to improve these notes due to their feedback in class as well as by providing issues in the github project.

These notes are built with Quarto.