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 # Data Science for Beginners - A Curriculum
 
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 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'.
 
 **Hearty thanks to our authors:** [Jasmine Greenaway](https://www.twitter.com/paladique), [Dmitry Soshnikov](http://soshnikov.com), [Nitya Narasimhan](https://twitter.com/nitya), [Jalen McGee](https://twitter.com/JalenMcG), [Jen Looper](https://twitter.com/jenlooper), [Maud Levy](https://twitter.com/maudstweets), [Tiffany Souterre](https://twitter.com/TiffanySouterre), [Christopher Harrison](https://www.twitter.com/geektrainer).