The course responds to the growing: demand for highly trained research scientists to design and implement data analysis pipelines for the increasingly large and complex data sets produced by the next generation of scientific experiments societal demand for data science and data analysis skills in the industry, especially when applied in strategic domains (science, health) and economic areas (finance, e-commerce) need to train postgraduate students with a deep understanding of data science techniques and algorithm building for modern computer architectures and utilising industry best practices for software development importance of open science in research, specifically reproducibility of scientific results and the creation of public data analytic codes.