Microsoft GitHub: Data Science for Beginners
Azure Cloud Advocates at Microsoft are pleased to offer a 10-week, 20-lesson curriculum all about Data Science. Each lesson includes pre-lesson and post-lesson quizzes, written instructions to complete the lesson, a solution, and an assignment. Our project-based pedagogy allows you to learn while building, a proven way for new skills to 'stick'.
- Date created
- May 21, 2026
- Specialty level
- Foundational
- Training category
- External Course
- Provider
- Microsoft
- Timeline
- 10 weeks, 20 lessons, 40 quizzes
- Cost
- Free
Course intelligence
Expected end-productTraining Resource
Intended goalsIncludes material on defining data science, data science ethics, defining data science, working with relational data, statistics and probability, working with NoSQL data, working with Python, data preparation, visualizing data distributions, proportions, quantities, and relationships, making meaningful assumptions, analyzing data, communicating, data science in the cloud, data science lifecycle, data science with the Azure ML, and real-life data science examples.
PrerequisitesGit (course can be cloned by Git)
Recommended whenYou want to learn about basic data science processes and the data science lifecycle
ApplicabilityAnything with AI/ML
Certification examNo exam listed