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ANI ADHIKARI: Hi.
I'm Ani Adhikari, a statistics
professor here at UC Berkeley.
DAVID WAGNER: I'm David Wagner,
computer science professor.
JOHN DENIRO: And I'm John DeNiro,
another computer science professor.
Here at Berkeley, we noticed that the
fields of computing and statistics
were merging and interacting
in exciting new ways.
So we decided to create a new
course to explore these connections.
DAVID WAGNER: And we discovered
that the concepts we're teaching
connect to many other
disciplines on campus.
ANI ADHIKARI: The result
is a new kind of course.
We're calling it
Foundations of Data Science.
It's the fastest-growing
course in UC Berkeley history,
with more than 1,000 students
enrolling every semester.
DAVID WAGNER: Data science is
much more than just a combination
of statistics and computing.
One of the things that I find
really exciting about this course
is that we draw from real-world
examples and real-world data sets.
JOHN DENIRO: You'll learn to
program when studying data science,
but not for the purpose
of building apps or games.
Instead, we use programming to
understand the world around us.
DAVID WAGNER: We hope you'll join us
in learning how data science, machine
learning, statistics, and computing are
affecting so much of the world today.
