Girls in Data Science Camp#
The Girls in Data Science Summer Camp at UBC aims to expose participants to a variety of topics in data science and statistics. This camp is offered for girls and other gender minorities in grades 8-12. Please complete the registration form and pay the $20 registration fee to confirm your spot in the camp.
General Information#
Dates: July 7-9, 2025
Time: 10am-3pm
Location: UBC Vancouver Campus
Instructor: Katie Burak (Contact: kburak@stat.ubc.ca)
Mentors: Sky Sheng
Lunch will be provided each day for the participants.
Topic Overview#
Day |
Topics |
|---|---|
Day 1 |
Introduction to data science, basics of Jupyter and R, data wrangling and data visualization |
Day 2 |
Measures of central tendency and spread, statistical inference and sampling, observational studies vs. experiments |
Day 3 |
Machine learning fundamentals, answering predictive questions (regression, classification) |
A Jupyter notebook of the material is available here.
References#
Mathematics for the Liberal Arts - Module 10: Statistics: Collecting Data
Certain content (particularly some of the teaching material) comes from UBC’s DSCI 100 - Introduction to Data Science course.
License#
License © 2025 Katie Burak, Jenny Lee and Mona Zhu
Software licensed under the MIT License, non-software content licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License. See the license file for more information.
Thank you to UBC’s Department of Statistics, Master of Data Science Program, Data Science Institute and PIMS for helping to make this event possible.
