About the Instructor
Hello, I am Naeemul Hassan, an assistant professor at the University of Maryland at College Park. I explore interdisciplinary research problems at the intersection of computation, information science, and journalism. Details of our works can be found in our lab's website cjlab-umd.github.io.
I am offering two courses this Summer 2025. Please indicate if you are interested in Introduction to Python Programming and/or Introduction to Data Science courses by May 25, 2025.
If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me.
Interested in these courses?
Please fill out the form by May 25, 2025 to express your interest
Sign Up NowIntroduction to Python Programming
Course Content
- Concept of Variables, Data Types
- Data Structures [List, Dictionary, Set]
- Conditional Statements
- Loop
- Function
- Introduction to Pandas
- Exploratory Data Analysis in Pandas
- Data Visualization
- Basic Natural Language Processing using Spacy
- Capstone Project and Review
Logistics
It will be a 2.5 months long course. 1.5 hrs per week. Total 15 hours. It will be offered online via Zoom. Sessions will be recorded.
Course Fees
As much as I want to make the course affordable for all, there are costs involved to arrange online meetings, store recordings, and prepare materials. Think about it as an investment you are doing on yourself to develop your skills.
- From Bangladesh: 10,000 Taka (Bkash)
- From USA: 100 USD (Paypal, Zelle, etc)
Time
Tentative schedule: June - August
We will decide the time based on availability of the majority of the interested people.
All sessions will be recorded in case you need to access the contents later.
Introduction to Data Science
Course Content
- Introduction to Data, Applications of Data Science, Course Logistics
- Summarizing Data
- Probability Refresher
- Foundations for Inference
- Inference for Categorical Data
- Inference for Numerical Data
- Linear Regression
- Logistic and Multiple Regression
- Unsupervised Learning
- Supervised Learning
Logistics
It will be a 2.5 months long course. 1.5 hrs per week. Total 15 hours. It will be offered online via Zoom. Sessions will be recorded.
Course Fees
As much as I want to make the course affordable for all, there are costs involved to arrange online meetings, store recordings, and prepare materials. Think about it as an investment you are doing on yourself to develop your skills.
- From Bangladesh: 15,000 Taka (Bkash)
- From USA: 150 USD (Paypal, Zelle, etc)
Time
Tentative schedule: June - August
We will decide the time based on availability of the majority of the interested people.
All sessions will be recorded in case you need to access the contents later.
Interested in joining these courses?
Please fill out the form by May 25, 2025 to express your interest
Sign Up Now